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Show Sen. Bruce Jenkins Defines Issues Of '62 Campaign Senator Bruce S. Jenkins (D. Salt Lake) Democratic candidate for Congress, told the members of a Democratic Study Group meeting at 678 Cortez St. Wednesday Wed-nesday evening, that peace, economic eco-nomic stability, full employment and expansion of freedom will be issues of significance in the 1962 campaign. Mr. Jenkins commended the President for bringing the concept con-cept of "public interest" to the negotiations between Big Steel and the steelworkers. He stated that it was the highest kind of statesmanship. Jenkins stated that more than 60,000 jobs can be created each week in the United States to absorb new entries into the labor market and to provide opportunities op-portunities for those persons displaced dis-placed by automation. "Full employment em-ployment is a national goal which summons all our free enterprise en-terprise sysetm to greater effort and greater creativity," he said. "Our national population will reach 208 million by 1970. We will have in excess of a million three hundred thousand people in Utah by 1975," he said. "Jobs must be found. Our people must be trained and have the opportunity opportu-nity to put such training to productive pro-ductive use," he told the meeting. |