We can help insure continued prosperity through:
--a regional recovery program to assist the development of stricken areas
left behind by our national progress;
--further efforts to provide our workers with the skills demanded by modern
technology, for the laboring-man is an indispensable force in the American
system;
--the extension of the minimum wage to more than 2 million unprotected
workers;
--the improvement and the modernization of the unemployment compensation
system.
And as pledged in our 1960 and 1964 Democratic platforms, I will propose to
Congress changes in the Taft-Hartley Act including section 14(b). I will do
so hoping to reduce the conflicts that for several years have divided
Americans in various States of our Union.
In a country that spans a continent modern transportation is vital to
continued growth.