The Key West citizen., 1952-09-17
EISENHOWER WILL
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we can get-not men too small fol
their jobs"
Eisenhower was accompanied OF
the flight to New York by Gov
Sherman Adams of New HamT
shire, his top adviser, and Arthur
Summerfield, COP national chair
man, in a party of A staff mem
bers and newsmen.
william Green, AFL president
/ has said the AFL Convention viii
endorse presidential candidate al
its meeting here after hearing Ell
senhower today and Gov. Adlai E
Stevenson of Illinois, his Demo
cratic rival, next Monday.
Green said he 752 convention
delegates would decide largely on
the views of the candidates and
their party platforms on the Taf'
Harley Act.
He implied that he expected the
convention to endorse Stevenson.
The rival CIO already has en-
dorsed Stevenson.
However, Eisenhower has assur-
ance of some AFL support.
Richard ]. Gray of Albany, long
time Democrat and president of
the three-million-member AFL
Building Trades and Construction
Department, said Aug. 27 he was
backing Eisenhower. He said he
knew of eight or 10 other ALL
leaders who also would support the
Republican.
william L. Hutcheson of India
napolis, a power in the AL Car
penters Brotherhood, said in June
he would vote for Eisenhower.
President Truman yesterday told
the AFL in a message that Eisen-
hover was backing an "anti-labor'
platform"
The President referred to Repub-
lican support for the Taft-Hartley
Act, which Congress passed over
Truman's veto. A co-author was
Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who
last Friday said he would cam
paign actively for Eisenhower.
Without mentioning Eisenhower
by name, Truman said:
"It appears that the Republican
candidate has now made his peace
withthe author of the new Taft
Hartley Law.
Apparently his conduct will not
be out of line with the Republican
platform which, in my opinion, is
the most anti-labor platform they
have submitted to the country in at
least 16 years."
The President said the Taft.Hart-
ley Law was only a first Republi-
can step in "the repeal of most Of
the New Deal legislation"
Prior to the Eisenhower speech,
the AFL delegates heard criticism
directed at the Taft-Harley Law
by wo administration officials.
Secretary of Labor Maurice Tob-
in said the law meant slow death
to the labor movement. He was
joined in the attack by Oscar
Ewing. federal security admin
iStrator.
Minneapolis and st. Paul turned
out in Mardi Gras style yesterday
to greet Eisenhower. Billows of
gaily colored confetti and paper
streamers descended on the gen.
eral and his wife Mamie as their
motorcade toured the twin cities.
Police estimated that more than
300, 900 persons lined the streets of
the two cities, with by far the
largest crowd in Minneapolis that
has voted Democratic in the past.
Summerfield, the COP parry
chieftain, described the reception
as "out of this world"
He said this and other rece-tols
given the general dur,rg rs II
whistle-stop speeches in tH'o ia
"Snowballing" in favor OF L a
hover.
"It is not only the numbers of
the crowds, but their friendly atti.
tude that indicates this" he said.
"You see elderly ladies waving
banners and exceedingly young
mothers holding their babies up to
see Ike. Everywhere he goes you
see people displaying homemade
placards that say I like Ike
THAT shows that they intended
in advance to welcome Ike, and did
no just happen to be nearby when
the motorcade passed. The feeling
for Gen. Eisenhower is deep-rooted
everywhere he has gone"
Reporters travelling with Eisen-
hover have noted such scenes as
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