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  (g.) Develop state purchasing, contracting, and investment policies which
encourage the
unionization of all workers.
  (h.) Not only resist current efforts to lower the minimum wage, which is
fast becoming the
wage of the majority of workers, but also push for its immediate increase
to at least five dollars
per hour.

4. Economic Policy
  We believe that a progressive economic policy can break the cycle of boom
and bust. Democ-
racy can and must be applied as a principle within our economy. The concept
of "Jobs with
Peace" must be a cornerstone of future economic development as well
as the recognition that we
live in a world that has limited natural resources.
  Economic policies must be based upon human needs, not corporate greed.
Toward that end
we support the following points:
  (a.) Job creation must be the immediate goal of economic development plans.
  (b.) Economic plans must be devised in ways to make jobs fulfilling and
should be geared
toward reduction of the workweek and elimination of all dehumanizing work.
  (c.) Adequate levels of state-administered health and life insurance must
be available to all
people.
  (d.) Workers must be given control over their pension funds.
  (e.) A state bank must be created. It must be designed to further the goals
of worker and
community control of economic development.
  (f.) State investments must be restricted to those which do not further
racism and oppression
abroad nor union busting and discrimination in the United States. A significant
portion of state
investments should be allocated to promote the other economic goals of this
platform.
   (g.) So-called "high technology" development plans should be
scrutinized closely and should
not be adopted unless study reveals substantial community and workforce benefit.
   (h.) All economic development plans must be environmentally sound.

5. American Indians
   (a.) Treaties are sacred covenants which honor and respect the sovereignty
of tribes.
   (b.) Treaties signed by the United States government with Indian nations
are U.S. law, and
where these treaties have been abrogated the law has been broken, and the
claims of the tribes
should be given prime consideration.
   (c.) The form of government of tribes on their respective reservations
should not be deter-
mined by the states or the federal government but by the tribes themselves.
   (d.) Treaties signed by the tribes are with the federal government and
not with the states;
however, a friendly spirit between tribes and states should be encouraged.
   (e.) Every effort should be made to assist Indian tribes in their goal
of economic self-
 sufficiency.
   (f.) American Indians have a right to educational opportunities and assistance.
   (g.) American Indians have the right to maintain cultural and religious
integrity and to keep
 their native languages alive. Indian pride should be encouraged.
   (h.) There is great cultural diversity among the various tribes and these
differences should be
 respected.
   (i.) Indians have a right not to be discriminated against because of race,
culture, or nationality.
   (j.) Tribal rights to treaty lands, to treaty resource access, to tax,
to regulate gambling, to
 enforce fishing, hunting, and conservation rules should be acknowledged
by state agencies.
   (k.) Indian court decisions should receive full faith and credit in state
courts. (For example:
 when a tribal attorney successfully prosecutes nonresident offenders who
dump refuse on Indian
 lands.)
   (1.) State courts must fulfill their duty by federal law to notify the
appropriate tribe of impend-
 ing Indian child placement decisions and this duty should be carefully exercised.
   (in.) State and local government must act decisively to halt racist threats
and attacks made
 upon tribal peoples.