)AY, JUNE 23, 1964 THE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE AY, .JUNE 23, 1964 TUE MICHIGAN DAILY PAGE THREE Democrats Support 'Freedom' Party, Read and Use Daily Classified Ads i,=.- ------- _ ------ - - - - - - - _-----T 1 i . ;:kp. . I f N ' .i (EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first of two articles on the Demo- cratic State Convention, which was held June 12-13) By ROBERT SELWA Special To The Daily LANSING-In the battle that is shaping up over the seating of delegates at the Democratic Na- tional convention, Michigan's del- egates will have explicit pro-civil rights instructions. After giving its support, both written and oral, to President Lyndon B. Johnson, Senator Phil- ip Hart (D-Mich) and guberna- torial candidate Neil Staebler, the convention gave instructions to the delegates to support the seating of the delegates nominated by the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. This is a civil rights politi- cal party challenging the regular Mississippi Democratic Party. These instructions came at the state convention, June 12 and 13, of the Michigan Democratic par- ty. They were contained in a res- olution which specified: "This Convention instructs the senior party. A month earlier, the Washtenaw County Democratic convention took the same position. The state convention chose 92 delegates and 100 alternatives to the national convention and drew up a policy that was strongly fav- orable toward civil rights and civil liberties. Prompt Enforcement One resolution adopted by the convention called for "prompt and vigorous enforcement of civil rights laws and of Section II of the Fourteenth Amendment. This section provides for reduction of the representation of any state in Congress in proportion to the share of its citizens denied the right to vote. The debate on the convention floor was over an amendment to this resolution. The amendment pledged efforts "to fight racial discrimination in the Democratic party throughout the United States" and was approved. The resolution on the Freedom' Democratic party had a similar provision. It applied the policy about delegate seating "to other states in which challenges by sim- ilar representative and loyal groups of Democrats may develop." This may be the case with Alabama, which along with Mississippi has an "unpledged electors" move- ment. Lists Two Reasons Two reasons were listed in the resolution for Michigan's opposi- tion to the regular Democratic party of Mississippi. First, the regular party discrim- inates against Negroes, who make up nearly half of the population of Mississippi, and is hence "un- democratically constituted." Second, the regular party fails to support the platform and poli- cies of the national Democratic party, it said. Distribute Platform Supporters of the "free Missis- sippi" movement distributed a copy of the 1960 platform of the regular Democratic party of Mis- sissippi. After statements in sup- port of racial segregation of states' rights and of "preservatiQn of our traditional Southern American way of life," the platform declar- ed: "We reject and oppose the plat- forms of both national parties and their candidates." The Mississippi Freedom Demo- cratic party was organized this year by the Council of Federated Organizations, a group working for civil rights in Mississippi. The Freedom Democratic party has planned to have procedures for electing national convention dele- gates that would be exactly paral- lel to the procedures of the regular party but without state sanction. SENATOR HART c- Welcome to Continental Hairstyling "Your Hair Problems Are Our Care F?~ visit The Dascola Barbers (near Michigan Theatre) or The U of M Barbers (North U. near Kresge's) m. I-, I t Dine Tonight. . . . in one of the campus afrea's fittest restau rants. . moderate prices. V 11 JEUX C Alki.9' eII 215 S. STATE ...:.. - - - - - - - - - - CONGRESSMAN STAEBLER Michigan delegation at the forth- coming national convention to take all appropriate action to seat the delegates from the Freedom Dem- ocratic party of Mississippi.' Dynamite These instructions, which could constitute dynamite at the nation- al convention, were adopted with no floor controversy at the state convention. The decision to sup- port the Freedom Democratic par- by seemed to come from pressure from civil rights groups and from a growing sentiment within the Michigan party. Two months earlier, the Michi- gan Young Democrats at its state convention decided to support the Freedom Democratic party and to work for similar support of the Be Refreshed this Summer!. 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