Labor Citizen

You Can Vote In National Poll To Determine Labor's Best Candidate

The biggest straw poll ever conducted by the labor press is currently trying to determine labor's favorite candidate for President and the most important campaign issue for the 1956 elections.

Initiated by Labor's Daily, the nation's only daily labor paper, the poll is being conducted cooperatively by labor papers from coast to coast. This newspaper is participating.

In the face of reports that the Eisenhower Administration will appeal to labor's rank-and-file over the heads of union leaders during the current campaign the results of the poll will be watched very carefully by political observers.

This is particularly true in view of recent statements by AFL-CIO President George Meany and Vice-President Walter Reuther that the merged labor organization will only support the Democratic Party if its platform reflects the liberal policies of AFL-CIO.

Participants in the poll are asked to pick one candidate for President, from a field composed of Adlai Stevenson, Estes Kefauver, Averell Harriman, Stuart Symington and Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Among the campaign issues listed are: Taft-Hartley; Civil Rights; Federal Aid to Education; Farm Depression, and World Peace. Participants are asked to number them in order of importance.

Labor's Daily will tabulate the results on a nation-wide basis. In addition, separate breakdowns will be made of the ballots submitted by readers of all participating labor papers.

Labor's Daily will publish the national results, while each labor paper will publish the poll of its own readers and the national poll.

The ballot appears on Page 5 of this issue.