Question: Which of our Socialists Political Parties promoted this as a Platform?

In all those things which deal with people, be liberal, be human. Government must have a heart as well as a head.

A foreign policy based on international cooperation:

We shall continue vigorously to support the United Nations.


A call to civil service:

We will vigorously promote, as we have in the past, a non-political career service under the merit system which will attract and retain able servants of the people.


Progressive taxation:

Further reductions in taxes with particular consideration for low and middle income families.


Infrastructure:

To meet the immense demands of our expanding economy, we the largest highway, air and maritime programs in history, each soundly financed.


Statehood for D.C.:

We favor self-government, national suffrage and representation in the Congress of the United States for residents of the District of Columbia.


Environmentalism:

We favor a comprehensive study of the effect upon wildlife of the drainage of our wetlands.
We recognize the need for maintaining isolated wilderness areas


Taking on big business:

- A continuously vigorous enforcement of anti-trust laws
- Legislation to enable closer Federal scrutiny of mergers which have a significant or potential monopolistic connotations;
- Procedural changes in the antitrust laws to facilitate their enforcement.


LABOR

-Extend the protection of the Federal minimum wage laws to as many more workers as is possible and practicable.
-Stimulate improved job safety of our workers, through assistance to the States, employees and employers.
-Assure equal pay for equal work regardless of Sex.
- Clarify and strengthen the eight-hour laws for the benefit of workers who are subject to federal wage standards...
- 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.

Bringing back the Equal Rights Amendment!

-We recommend to Congress the submission of a constitutional amendment providing equal rights for men and women.

Answer: The 1956 Republican Party Platform