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Show Demo Chairman Sees Passage Of Medical Aid to Aged Bill like to see in Congress. "I don't think I have to translate trans-late that message for you," Bailey Bai-ley said. "I don't think I have to ask you whether the type of men you would like to see elected are the type of men they would like to see elected. "They want the type of man who is for 'right-to-work' and is against good housing, against aid to education, against the minimum min-imum wage, against relief for depressed de-pressed areas, against medical care for the aged under Social Security, and so on and on. "And the only way they are going to get a majority of such backward-thinking men in the Congress is to elect more Republicans Re-publicans and I can assure you that this fact has not escaped big business." Bailey noted that the labor movement has had to educate the public in order to win the support sup-port of public opinion and in order to increase its gains. The same is true in the realm of polit- Chairman JohnM. Bailey of the Democratic National Com- mittee told leaders of the Ma- chinists Non-Partisan Political League today that he believed the Congress will pass a bill this year for medical aid for the elderly under Social Security. If not, he said, neither he nor President Kennedy will stop fighting for such a bill. He urged the people of the country to make their wishes known to their Congressmen. Con-gressmen. Speaking before the labor group's National Planning Committee Com-mittee in Washington, the Democratic Demo-cratic Chairman chided the leadership lead-ership of the Republican Party for renewed Republican activity on behalf of what he termed "unjust, "un-just, unfair and mis-named 'right-to-work' laws." Bailey noted that only yesterday, yester-day, he called upon the Republican Republi-can leadership to clarify the Party's position on "right-to-work." "It will be interesting to see ical advancement, he said, and public opinion has changed as the voters have become better educated. "We . . . have a Federal program pro-gram of medical care for the aged which is proving inadequate," inade-quate," he said. "And as the public becomes better educated to its inadequacy, support is growing for President Kennedy's plan for medical care for the aged under Social Security. "I think we are going to get a vote, and if we do, we will pass that bill at this session of the Congress. But if we don't, I am not going to give up, and neither is President Kennedy! We will keep on educating the voters on that program. And the more people peo-ple know about it, the more people will want it. And when they want it enough, and make their views known by their words and by their votes, the Congress will provide it for them. "The Congress which provides it may not have the same membership mem-bership as the Congress which turned it down, but the people are going to get a decent program pro-gram of medical care for the aged unless you or I give up and quit fighting." what nappens, ne saia. i suspect sus-pect the Republican statement will not be too clear. It's hard to write a ringing statement which says 'We are for these restrictive laws, and we want the vote of the right-wingers who support such laws, but we don't want to say so publicly, because we don't want to take lickings like right-to-work brought us in Ohio and California in 1958.' And if you want to know, I think that is exactly what the Republican position is on that issue." The Democratic leader commented com-mented that the Republican Party does not appear to think labor should be in politics at all. "The Republican lack of enthusiasm en-thusiasm for political activity by organized labor is about equal to its enthusiasm for political activity by big business," he said. "And make no mistake about it, big business is more and more activ in politics." Bailey quoted the November 17 issue of the Washington Report Re-port of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Com-merce as telling its readers that the legislators chosen m 196 will have a lot to say about the economic conditions under which they, the readers, will operate their businesses, urging its readers read-ers to see to it that the men elected are the type they would |
