REPUBLICAN PLATFORM FOR TIE TERRITORY OF ALASKA COOT. FROM PAGE. 12.
into a' highway, Forty'Mile Rond, Chena'Hot Springs Mining District, Koyukuk District
Nnknok, Ophir, Alaska, to Rtiby, Alaska, which will connect'by highway transportation
the Kuskokuim and the Yukon, a road from'Kuskokuim to Hat, and other roads connect
ing up with a continental highway system. And that the Federal Highway Aet be made
applicable to Alaska.
Construction and improvements' of water-ways such'as a channel between Douglas
Island and Juneau, Youngs,Bay, Hawk Inlot Cana 1, Sulzer Canal, breakwaters at
Haines and Amgoon and Kake.
Airplane fields and landing strips.
7. We reaffirm our faith in thd General Land Laws which have made possible the pros
perity of the Unitod States, and we urge that all public lands'now withdrawn by
executive orders be thrown open to homestead and other'entrios, with preferential
rights to all service men and ex-service men and women, and condemn all leasing
. provisions and other schemos for withholding title,
S. We sympathize with the natives-of Alaska in their btwuggle to. adjust themselves to
a civilization that has well nigh overwhelmed them, and we commend the" succdss with
which they arc overcoming liandicaps unknown to the great body of our people, and
so commend them .to the sympathetic attention of our government both fodoral and
tarritorial.
We acknowledge their original ownership of this Territory, and we believe that an
early settlement of this question w'uld be beneficial to the development of Alaska
and so we.urge the immediate passage of the bill to empower the Interior Department
to negotiate for the extinguishment of their title or so much thereof as may not
. be needed to mainte.in a docent standard of living*
9. LIQUOR; We believe .there should bo strict and full enforcement of the laws per
taining to intoxicating liquor, .. •
10. Ue urge the eonstrudtion or acquisition, and operation of tuberculosis hospitals
within the Territory.
xl. We demand an immediate and complete audit of the Territorial finances.
12. We demand the immediate repeal of See. 27 of the Jones Marie Act, a discrimination
against our use of shipping that doos not apply to any other part:of the United
States.
13. That the aged, the infirm, the helpless, and the involuntarily unemployed Aould
be adequately aided and their needs supplied by increasing benefits as their
conditions may require, and the evils and defects in the present social security
legislation and its enforcement promptly corrected.
14. SOLDIERS* ACT; That proper legislation be enacted for the good and benefit of
the returning veterans of World War II along the linos of resolutions passed by
. tho 1945 American.Legions Convention held at Seward.
15. We oppose all mass colonization of Alaska by aliens in contravention of our
immigration laws. ■ J
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January 25, 1946
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