GOP CONVENTION Ae Economic health is | real campaign issue By RALPH IZARD | SAN FRANCISCO Even before the knee-deep litter left in the Cow Palace by Republican conven- tioneers has been completely cleared out, the economic health of the U.S. rather than the physical condition of President Eisenh ower, has emerged as what may be the prime issue of the campaign. Inflation, plaything of re GOP regi me, is once more in full | control of the es | economy despite the Keynesian tinkerers in Washington. ‘As the GOP jamboree end- ed, milk price boosts of 1% cents per quart were announc- ed for the San Francisco Bay Area. Over the country coffee prices were boosted three cents per pound. The over-all cost of commodities going in- to the market basket was at an all-time high. B.C. DISTRICT UNION — INTERNATIONAL UNION OF ™* | Ey INE, MILL & SMELTER WORKERS Extends aROR DAY GREETINGS FOR FULL LABOR UNITY 2 UN i LUTTIM Fraternal Greetings . . . To All Canadian Labor ; FORWARD TO — LABOR UNITY — CANADIAN TRADE UNION AUTONOMY p PEACE =~ TRADE - JOBS: Trail & District Smelter Workers’ Union LOCAL 480, MINE, MILL 910 Portland st. Trail, B.C. Peet Hn) iii) ULI nee nee nett BUMBLE! MM = Hating) TT LL eM Unity — LABOR DAY GREETINGS TO ALL TRADE: UNIONS ! COPPER MOUNTAIN MINERS’ UNION Local No. 649 Box 42 Tesident: 7: Klein Copper Mountain, B.C. Fin. Secretary: R. E. Archibald MUiaig, nT MULL eM WE SET OUR SIGHTS ON Democracy THIS LABOR DAY - UNION 138 East ae Autonomy 1956 UNITED FISHERMEN & ALLIED WORKERS’ . “Vancouver 4, B.C. MMi, Meta Way MALL en ee Th 1956 Pre Lea a nt ete ek eke and edn tt Haig) Maia, Win) ELLIE UE a TE Little or none of this can have reached Canadian TV watchers. What they caught on the little screen insead was speaker after speaker vaunt- ing GOP prosperity, claimed as a Republican patent—even to the extent of bragging up “the stable Republican dollar.” Thomas E. Dewey, twice Re- vublican presidential’ nominee (1944-48), former: governor of New York state and now a be- nign GOP elder statesman, was eloquent on Republican eco- nomie stability. “Today,” said Dewey, re- ferring to previous Democratic economic practices, “that sav- age spiral of inflation has stop- red.” : Nor can the TView have taken in the stock market’s fainting spell and $1.5 billion Gecline, in response to at- tempts to put the brakes on rising prices by boosting in- terest rates — a boost that rnay have unforseen effects for an economy now carrying nearly $90 billion in consumer credit on the books. ~ Other sidelights in the four- day exercise in tightly-con- {rolled hysteria may likewise have escaped the TV cameras, One bit that’ may. have been lost occurred in connection with installation of Rep. Joe Martin Jr., minority leader of LABOR DAY GREETINGS “FROM _ VANCOUVER CIVIC EMPLOYEES UNION — OUTSIDE WORKERS A Union Proudly Dedicated To The Unity And Brotherhood Of Labor BRUCE MacKINNON President DONALD GUISE Business Agent JACK PHILLIPS Secretary SENATOR KNOWLAND the House, as permanent chair- man. There duly followed fer- vent cheers, capers, standard and flag waving by the vari- ous state delegations, not ex- cepting Alabama, Virginia and Georgia. Except that the dele- gates of these three states all waved Confederate flags. Longer-headed men, keenly aware of the effect that such demonstrations might have on a Negro vote that may be de- cisive in this election, were probably responsible for bar- ring these flags from the con- vention floor later . By the time delegates were demonstrating in response to nominating speeches, the only Confederate flag to be seen was that forming one-fourth the state flag of Georgia. As for the GOP civil rights plank itself. this was charac- *terized by Roy Wilkins, sec- 1etary of the National Associ- ation for the Advancement of Colored People, as “only a shede better” than that writ- ten by the Democrats. And the Democrats stilk look to the old “Solid South” as the basis for their hoped-for majority. The Republican, plank “ac- cepts” the U.S. Supreme Court cecision throwing out segre- gation in the schools, and now supposedly the law of the land. It “concurs” in the “all deliberate speed” timetable ad- vanced by the court for end- ing segregation. — But the Republican civil tights plank also calls atten- tion to the fact that the U.S. Constitution “. .. confers upon all native born and naturaliz- ad citizens not only citizenship in the state where the indivi- dual resides, but citizenship in the U.S. as well.” August 31, 1956 — SENATOR STLYES- BRIDGES If this sentence adds up to anything at all, it means “If you don’t like the way things are done in the state where you live, remember you're free to move... .” Punched home in one vari- ation or another by every speaker, spelled out by Presi- dent Eisenhower in. his ac- ceptance speech, the emphasis on peace will gain votes for the Republicans, even with Nixon in line as “probable president.” - The entire Eisenhower speech was moderate in tone, conciliatory in expression, and even in ccutious agreement with previous ~ Soviet pro- nouncements on the necessity for two-way tourist traffic be- tween the two great powers. Seasoned political observers remarked the difference be- tween the Eisenhower ap- preach and that. of Nixon’ to the same ‘“Peace-Prosperity- Progress” theme. Where Kis- enhower’s words were meas- ured and moderate, Tricky Dick spoke of peace with marked belligerence. But collapse of the “Stop Nixon” move was so complete that it has brought the GOP Neanderthal element—Know- land, Mundt, Jenner, Cape- hart, Bridges and his other backers — within a heartbeat of complete Republican party control. However, because of the state of Eisenhower’s health it is upon Nixon that the main brunt of campaigning will fall. In such a campaign, this ‘probable President” may ap- pear to the American people, in Joe Martin’s words, as a ,GOP “salesman of the future” whose wares they aren’t buy- ing. PACIFIC TRIBUNE — PAGE 5