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Show Republicans Advance Platform In Bid For Western Vote SALT LAKE CITY Republican Republi-can leaders represening eleven western states and Alaska recently rec-ently declared in a platform adopted here that 'human rights must not be subjected to regulation regula-tion from Washington. They charged that "leadership in the Democrat Party by word and act has espoused a cause and a course, radical and un-American" and asserted that "only through the election of a Republican Repub-lican Congress can our nation reestablish its economy on a sound basis and insure the future fu-ture of all our people." The conference adopted resolutions reso-lutions affirming Republican belief be-lief in free enterprise, in the right of every citizen to a review re-view in court of any government regulation or directive, in labor's right to organize, and asserted that public interest is supreme in labor disputes. The platform resolved that industrial in-dustrial war plants owned by the United States should be sold promptly to private industry and the West industrialized to the point consistent with available markets. The Republicans declared they favored lifting of wartime restrictions re-strictions on the mining industry to encourage development, purchasing pur-chasing and coinage of domestic gold and silver, restoration of free gold circulation, and the removal re-moval of silver ceiling prices. The delegates resolved that tillable public lands should be. opened to homesteading with priority privileges to all returning return-ing veterans and favored revising revis-ing the parity formula to include farm labor costs and family labor. la-bor. They said they believed ownership of public lands not essential for federal purposes should be transferred to state's control. They emphasized conservation con-servation of resources by declaring declar-ing that fisheries should be fully protected by domestic regulations regula-tions or treaties and that full development of forests should be undertaken. The Republicans expressed opposition op-position to government-sponsored river valley developments, declaring de-claring that the "sweeeping" authority au-thority vested in them menaced the American way of life. Other planks in the platform included restoration of shipping of exportable goods in American shipping to the Seven Seas; halting halt-ing lumber exportation until crit-ical crit-ical shortages are alleviated in the United States; granting Alaska Alas-ka the right to elect its governor. |