Evening star., 1953-09-08
Truman Speech Stirs
Democrats Praise
And 6. .O.P. Retorfs
BY the Associated Pres.

1 o1 me %SAoci0teo FIeSS
/ Former President Truman'S
broad gauge attack on the Eisen-
hover administration, blanketing
in its national defense policy,
brought reaction of praise and
criticism which generally fol-
lowed party lines.
Speaking in Detroit yesterday,
with Nation wide television
audience looking on, Mr.. Tru-
man assailed cuts made this
year in the defense budget and
said, II don't see how anybody
can take chances with our ma
tional defense at this time in
the worlds history"
Senator Millikin of Colorado,
chairman of the conference of
Senate Republicans, commented
in his home State: 81 believe
President Eisenhower knows
more about national defense
than former President Truman"
And Senator Dirksen, Repub-
lican, of Illinois, put a similar
reaction this way: II am sure
the country prefers to rely upon
the wisdom of the man who
commanded the invasion of Eu-
rope than on the artilleryman
from Independence"
Criticizes Trends.
Mr.. Truman, in his first
speech on domestic affairs since
leaving the White House in
January, criticized the new ad-
ministration's actions on inter-
est rates, public housing, power
development and labor manage
ment law.
He termed the aft-Hartley
Act bad law and said he had
failed to see it changed "as
promised by the Republican
candidate during the 1852 elec-
ton campaign.
Overall, he told an AFL-CIO
rally, There are signs of a re-
turn to the old philosophy that
the object of Government is to
help big business"
Senator George, Democrat. of
Georgia, said of the speech: 1T
sounds a little bit political to
me. / think the former Presi-
dent has something in that di-
rection in mind for the party if
not for himself"
Fears Reaction.
Senator Gillette. Democrat, of
Iowa, said in Des Moines, how
ever. that Mr.. Truman had
voiced a fear which he said is
in most American minds, land
that is that the reactionary wing
OF the Republican Party seems to
have taken control of the present
administration"
Their philosophy" Senator
Gillette added, has always been
not the greatest good for the
greatest number but the serving
of certain dominant interests"
The three Detroit newspapers
had no comment on Mr.. Tru-
mans assertion that Detroiters
must read newspapers that for
the most part are pro-Republi-
can and anti-union."
But that's the way it is in
most of the country" Mr.. Tru-
man continued. THE COP
controlled press suppresses and
distorts the news-in some cases
it fails to print it."
In another Labor Day speech,
Senator Symington, Democrat,
of Missouri, former Secretary of
the Air Force, said a cut in air.
plane production ordered by the
Defense Department last week
apparently is a plan to meet
Russian bombers with a firmly
balanced budget" He spoke in
Little Rock, Ark.
More Hits Crusade"
At Madison, Wis, Senator
Morse, independent, of Oregon
said the only hope for a liberal
Government is the election OF, a
Democratic Congress next year.
'The Republican crusade of
reckless reaction had better
be stopped cold before the pub
lies wealth is carted off in the
big business bankers trailers at
tached to the Cadillac crusade"
Senator Morse said. He quit the
G. o. P. in last years election
campaign.
CIO President Walter Reuther
said in a speech at Akron, Ohio,
that organized labor rejects the
theory that depressions are in
evitable. Labor says we are
going to fight and plan to avoid
q depression, he said. de-
pressions are man made, and
what man makes he can also
avoid"
AFL President George Meany
| in a CHS radio speech listed in
flation as the top item among
"glaring weaknesses in our ma
tional life which require imme-
diate action"
"The working people of this
country and the farmers as well
are being victimized by unjusti-
fable profiteering," Mr.. Meany
said. "It must be stopped. It
is up to Congress to halt inf1a-
ton if the Nation is to be kept
strong"
Nevertheless, the AFL chief
said that with better pay and
working conditions "the Ameri-
can worker stands head and
shoulders above the workers of
any other land"
/ AnVEPTWC WCENTENTr