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The Ypsilanti Daily Press
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan
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Republicans prepare platform for 1946 elections focusing on UN support, defense, economic relief, and labor rights, to be presented in Chicago; Democrats mock it as unoriginal.
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Washington, Dec. 6—AP—Top Republicans in Congress headed today for a national committee meeting in Chicago bearing a general platform for the 1946 congressional elections.
Its main provisions:
1. Foreign affairs: Full support of the United Nations Organization and relief measures abroad "to prevent chaos through misery."
2. National defense: Support a well trained and fully equipped Army, Navy and Air Force.
3. Domestic economy: Lighten taxes and reduce the national debt, bring government outlay in line with income, economize in government spending, and remove war-time restrictions and controls as soon as possible.
4. Labor policy: Reaffirm labor's right to organize and bargain collectively, contracts to be mutually binding. Press for improvement of governmental machinery to settle labor disputes peacefully.
The platform will be presented to the Republican National Committee at its Chicago sessions tomorrow and Saturday.
Democrats in Congress, greeted the document with derision.
"They've promised everything but a million dollars apiece for the citizens," Senator Tunnell (D-Del) told a reporter.
"Not a single thing new or constructive—no progress," opined Senator Lucas (D-Ill).
"They've sort of reiterated what the Democratic party already has done or is now preparing to do," commented Senator Hoey (D-NC).
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Chicago
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Dec. 6
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platform to be presented to republican national committee; democrats deride it as unoriginal and promising everything without specifics.
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Top Republicans in Congress head to national committee meeting in Chicago with general platform for 1946 congressional elections, covering foreign affairs support for UN and relief, national defense with trained forces, domestic economy with tax relief and reduced controls, and labor policy affirming rights and peaceful dispute settlement.