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Show Democrats Must Cut Down Unemployment President John F. Kennedy has outlined a bold program for dealing with unemployment in this country. We hope Congress will go along with it. The nation must face the fact that in recent years, even in times of relative prosperity, the volume of unemployment is intolerably high. With the advance of automation, more and more workers are being displaced on a labor market that has far to many persons looking for work. As Democrats, we must renew our pledge to give meaning to the Employment Act of 1946, whose promise of "maximum employment, production and purchasing power" has been so casually disregarded by the Republican administration. The Area Redevolpment bill, vetoed by President Eisenhower Eisen-hower in 1958 at a heavy cost of suffering to the unemployed and economic loss to the whole nation, should have been enacted into law. We are unwilling to see our fellow citizens forced to endure idleness in communities hard hit by economic misfortune not of their own making. The legislation which would provide low interest loans to private industry to create job in these areas, build needed public facilities and retrain workers is urgently needed. For communities not in the "depressed area" category, a dynamic expanding economy is the basic solution to excess unemployment. Yet even with a high rate of economic growth, employment problems remain among the poorly educated, the (Continued on Page Four) Democrats Must Cut Down Unemployment (Continued from Page One) unskilled, the older workers and workers displaced through automation and other industrial dislocations. Programs of vocational vo-cational training and retraining need to be stepped up in order that available workers can be matched with available jobs. |