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I Here is the Schedule and Here is Your * All-Star* Team I
THE PLATFORM
STATEHOOD
1. We demand immediate Statehood for Alaska.
EQUAL RIGHTS
2. We stand for equal rights and opportunities for all, without regard to race,
creed or color.
HEALTH
3. We urge the immediate enactment of a modern menial health program.
WELFARE
4. We stand for improved welfare, health and social security programs and for
further positive action to meet the problem of juvenile delinquency.
EDUCATION
5. We favor an expanding program of public education and we advocate pro
fessional pay scales, and fair hearings before dismissal for teachers.
FISHERIES
6. We advocate a comprehensive fisheries program consisting of immediate
abolition of fish traps, transfer of control of commercial fisheries to the
Territory, control of importation of foreign-caught fisheries products and
more stringent international regulation of off-shore fisheries.
MINING
7. Recognising the importance of the mining industry, we favor incentives to
mine operators, aid to prospectors and the establishment of depots in Alaska
for the purchase of strategic minerals.
AGRICULTURE
8. We favor continued aid to agriculture to strengthen this important branch
of our economy. We believe that farm and fish cooperatives must be permitted
to enter into marketing agreements without undue legal restrictions.
LABOR
9. We support the right of wage earners to organise and bargain collectively
' and oppose any legislation which would cudlail that right, and we favor and
support organised labor in its efforts to establish prevailing wage rates on
government projects.
10. We advocate intensifying enforcement of safeguards to workers under safety
code laws and regulations, and urge adequate appropriations for that purpose.
11. We urge that priority in job placement be afforded to local residents. We also
favor encouragement of new industry in Alaska to help develop a future
sound economy for the Territory.
12. We oppose the use of military personnel in such a way as to replace or
supplant civilians in work which is essentially civilian in character.
LANDS
13. We urge immediate survey and transfer of school lands and the early transfer
of the tidelands to the Territory. We oppose further withdrawals of public
land and recommend immediate return of all withdrawn lands which are
not being utilised. We advocate a greatly expanded program of public
land surveys.
POWER j v
14. We urge the development of Alaska's power resources, and recommend the
creation of a Territorial Utilities Commission.
JUDICIARY
15. Wo urge the immediate creation of additional judgeships where needed in
Alaska.
Highways, Transportation, Airports, Public Works
16. We strongly urge the improvement and expansion of our highway system,
with consideration, among other factors, of laying out roads along scenic
routes for encouragement of tourist travel.
17. We urge restoration of passenger ship service to and from Alaska.
18. We urge a reactivated and expanded program for the construction and main
tenance of airfields, float plane facilities and small boat harbors.
TAXATION
19. We oppose a general sales tax in any form by either the Territorial or
Federal governments.
' 20. We favor extension of the principle of the tax-free cost-of-living differential
allowed to Federal employees, to all individual taxpayers in Alaska.
21. If needed to meet increased revenue requirements, we favor restoration of
a property tax outside of present taxing jurisdictions.
22. We favor reasonable restrictions upon federal, territorial, or municipal gov
ernment activities which compete with private enterprise in Alaska.
23. We favor legislation to relieve the courts of present administrative burdens
in respect to issuance of liquor licenses.
24. We support development of local industry and small business.
25. We favor financial support of Alaska-Tennessee Plan congressmen.
A PLATFORM FOR PROGRESS
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CANDIDATES
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FOR DELEGATE TO CONGRESS
^ E. L. (Boh) Bartlett
FOR U. S. SENATOR
( 6-YEAR TERM )
^ Ernest Gruening
^ FOR U. S. SENATOR
( 4-YEAR TERM )
^ William A. Egan
FOR U. S. REPRESENTATIVE
^ Ralph J. Rivers
FOR HIGHWAY ENGINEER
Frank A. Metcalf
FOR ATTORNEY GENERAL
^ J. (Jerry) Gerald Williams
FOR TERRITORIAL SENATORS
^ John A. (Mac) McNees
^ Charles E. Fagerstrom
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TERRITORIAL REPRESENTATIVES
^ Ehen Hopson
^ Frank A. Degnan
^ Janies A. von der Heydt
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A Team that will Work together
ALL DEDICATED ALASKANS
ALL PROVEN MEN OF EXPERIENCE
ALL WILL SUPPORT YOUR PLATFORM
1 T/*\r 1^1/ By Absentee Ballot \ 7^\r I JLI AT THE POLLS \ I 'jL*
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