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Show Young Democrats Convene H n Salt Lake City For Three-Day Session More than 150 Young Democrats Demo-crats from eleven western states aired problems and policies at a 'session here June 20-22. Delegates, totalling 50, were present from Washington, Oregon, Ore-gon, California, Montana, Wyoming, Wyo-ming, Idaho, Colorado, Arizona and the Territory of Alaska and Texas, while approximately 100 Young Democrats from the Salt Lake area participated in vari ous activities. Club luminaries from throughout through-out the west were present to participate par-ticipate in panel discussions on economic policy, agriculture and labor, natural resources and other topics. Keynote speaker Saturday was J. Tim Brennan, Pocatello, Idaho Young Democrat president and candidate for a Democratic Con-( Con-( Continued on Page 5) Young Democrats Convene In Salt Lake City ready to meet the challenge." ' At Sunday's conference session ses-sion at the Alpine Rose Lodge in Brighton, the conference gave strong support to a suggestion by Bruce Bishop, resigning conference con-ference chairman from Portland, Ore., that Allan T. Howe, Salt Lake City, president, Young Democratic Clubs of Utah, succeed suc-ceed him in the post. It was explained however, that Mr. Howe must be named to the position by Nelson Lancione of Columbus, Ohio, national president presi-dent of the Young Democrats. Democrats received a warning not to use Sherman Adams' current cur-rent political dilemma as a campaign cam-paign issue in November's Congressional Con-gressional elections. Speaking to young Democrats who convened in Salt Lake City last weekend, Dr. Gale McGee, candidate for the Democratic nomination for U. S. Senator in Wyoming and a member of the faculty at the University of Wyoming, said: "Public opinion will take care of the disclosures about the assistant as-sistant president. For the Democrats Demo-crats to twit the Republicans about the case while the world burns would be forfeiting our responsibility." Dr. McGee spoke at the Saturday Satur-day evening banquet meeting of the 11-state Democratic parley. "A political party, and particularly particu-larly one which proposes to offer new leadership to the nation," he said, "has no business digressing digress-ing into the petty shambles of day-to-day politics." In the body of his address, which concerned itself with foreign for-eign policy, Dr. McGee emphasized empha-sized it is imperative for this country to recapture the initiative initia-tive in the "cold war." He said that this could be accomplished only through young, new and imaginative ideas coming from youth itself or older people with young minds. The need for youth in today's politics was cited at a business session keynote speech by J. Tim Brennan, Pocatello, Idaho, a candidate can-didate for an Idaho Democratic Congressional nomination. Noting that politics needs a balance of youth and experience, Mr. Brennan said young people should affiliate with political parties; should actively work in support of candidates and to become candidates themselves. He noted that the objection "you are too young" is no basis for young people to refuse to become candidates. A Democratic Party policy to follow a program to stop the pattern pat-tern of 15 per cent pay increases and 30 per cent increases in living liv-ing costs," was advocated in a panel discussion on economic policy by St. George Mayor Wm. A. Barlocker. Mr. Barlocker urged a profit-sharing profit-sharing program as a means of solving labor-management problems. prob-lems. A. Wally Sandack, former Salt Lake County Democratic chairman chair-man of counsel for the Utah State AFL-CIO, suggested Mr. Barlocker's ideas would make an interesting campaign for the 1960 governorship. , A four-man panel on labor and agriculture reached the conclusion conclu-sion that right-to-work laws have one purpose destruction of collective bargaining with the ultimate death of the labor movement. Acting on the panel were Wesley Wes-ley McCune, Denver, Colorado, special representative for the National Farmers Union; A. F. Hartung, Portland, Ore., president presi-dent of the International Woodworkers Wood-workers of America; Eugene Madigan, special representative of the International Association of Machinists; and Dernest Sal-vas, Sal-vas, Butte, Mont., member of the International Executive Board of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Mr. McCune, speaking on soaring soar-ing retail food prices, said that decreasing farm prices are evidence evi-dence that the farmer is not getting get-ting the big share. He said the matter is a political issue, and one on which labor and agriculture agricul-ture must understand each other. Several resolutions were approved ap-proved at the sessions. The delegates dele-gates urged the admission of the Territory of Alaska as a state; and turned thumbs down on the "right-to-work" laws in various states. Another called for comprehensive com-prehensive planning for resource development in the West, with particular attention to be paid to the dwindling mining industry indus-try and reclamation projects. (Continued from Page 1) gressional seat. Participating in a panel discussion discus-sion on Young Democrats organizational organ-izational problems and campaign plans were David Bumm, chairman chair-man of Denver. Mr. Bumm is immediate past president of the Young Democrats of America; Philip Burton, chairman of the National Board of Regional District Dis-trict of Young Democrats of America; Mrs. Lorella Salazar, Albuquerque, N. M., chairman of the women's division of the Young Democrats Clubs; and Robert Larsen, Seattle, Wash., secretary of the Young Democrats Demo-crats of America. Banquet speaker was Dr. Gale McGee, candidate for nomination as U. S. Senator from Wyoming. Speaking at the final day's session ses-sion was Frank E. Moss, Salt Lake attorney and candidate for a Democratic Senate nomination. Attorney Frank E. Moss blasted the Eisenhower administration in an address Sunday and as a sidelight criticized Utah Senator Arthur V. Watkins' call for the resignation of presidential assistant as-sistant Sherman Adams. Mr. Moss would, as a candidate for the Democratic Senate nomination, nomi-nation, succeed Sen. Watkins in 1959 if elected. "The great crusade of the Ei-j senhower administration," said Moss, "is now in tattered and disorganized retreat. A tired and baffled President pleads for his chief of staff, saying plaintively that he needs him while his own party leaders, at least those running run-ning for election, sternly say that Sherman Adams must go. "Our our senior senator from Utah gets into this act, too. He can test the political wind just as he tested once before and found that his old friend Joe McCarthy, whom he had supported sup-ported and whose actions he had praised, had become persona non grata politically. "And so he turned on Joe and voted his censure ot the endless amazement of Joe and to the politically expedient boost to A. V. Watkins. "So Watkins says that Adams must got and he hopes we forget the bitter accusations and epithets epi-thets he hurled at the Democrats whose sins were far less in 1952." Mr. Moss emphasized that the Adams matter is a Republican matter only and that America's situation with the Russians ought to gain our full attention. "In times of serious trouble," he said, "the people of America instinctively turn to the Democrats. Demo-crats. This year they will turn to us again, and we must be |