Radical Republican Platform, 1956

As the ultra-right toil away in Tampa crafting the most socially destructive Republican Party Platform ever, click here to link to the Platform created for Eisenhower's re-election campaign in 1956. Times have changed somewhat.

I've lazily cut-and-pasted some excerpts from another site:

“The Eisenhower Administration will continue to fight for dynamic and progressive programs which, among other things, will:

• Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers; 
• Continue and further perfect its programs of assistance to the millions of workers with special employment problems, such as older workers, handicapped workers, members of minority groups, and migratory workers; 
• Strengthen and improve the Federal-State Employment Service and improve the effectiveness of the unemployment insurance system; 
• Protect by law, the assets of employee welfare and benefit plans so that workers who are the beneficiaries can be assured of their rightful benefits; 
• Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex;
• Federally-assisted construction, and maintain and continue the vigorous administration of the Federal prevailing minimum wage law for public supply contracts; 
• Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable; 
• Continue to fight for the elimination of discrimination in employment because of race, creed, color, national origin, ancestry or sex; 
• Provide assistance to improve the economic conditions of areas faced with persistent and substantial unemployment; 
• Revise and improve the Taft-Hartley Act so as to protect more effectively the rights of labor unions, management, the individual worker, and the public. The protection of the right of workers to organize into unions and to bargain collectively is the firm and permanent policy of the Eisenhower Administration.”