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for the practical good of 100
million Americans"
! It is essential the President
argued, that the Republican
Party control the legislative as
we'll as the executive branch if
it is to be held ;clearly account
able" for guiding the course of
the Government.
| He predicted there would be
''stagnation and inaction," with
politics having a field day." if
the Democrats controlled Con-
gress for the next two years.
The President did not limit
his appeal to Republican voters,
however. Indeed, he called for
'the cooperation and fighting
support of our people, regard
less of party, who want our
principles and our detectives to
triumph"
The bulk of his Hollywood
Bowl speech was an account of
accomplishments of his admin
istration and the Republican
led Congress of the last two
years. He claimed credit for
ending useless shooting" in Ko-
rea: cutting Government ex-
penses by $11 billion; cutting
taxes more than 81 billion; ere
storing integrity and dignity" to
the Federal Government, and
bringing the Nation it's greatest
peacetime prosperity.
Carefully Prepared.
Gen. Eisenhower spoke last
night from a carefully prepared
text, replete with studiously
thought-out. ear-catching CAM
paign phrases.
He assailed "peddlers of fear:
rejected feast and famine"
defense program, and talked of
cleaning "misflts and units" out
of the Government service.
He goes before the AFL con-
vention. which has been critical
Of his administration, here today
without a prepared speech and
with no one protesting to be sure
in advance just what he might
say.
Generally, he was expected to
| follow up Secretary of Labor
Mitchell's earlier appeal to the
convention for a flair appraisal"
of the administration. But his
talk could produce more fire.
works.
No Appeal Expected.
There was no thought that the
President would make any sup
plant appeal for organized labor
support. Instead, he was likely
to emphasize that he intends no
special favors for special groups.
1t was timely opportunity,
however, for the President to
answer the big labor organiza-
TONS criticism which came to
a climax yesterday with unani-
nous adoption of a resolution
charging his administration with
"nany crimes Of omission and
commission"
Two years of the Eisenhower
administration, the resolution
asserted, have demonstrated
that the'forces of reaction which
that administration represents
/. are pursuing the same
philosophy of government which
brought our Nation to the brink
of economic disaster prior to the
New Deal"
It complained especially that
the administration had failed to
redeem its 1852 mpaig n
promises ito remove the union
busting provisions of the Taft
Hartley Act"
Mentioned Revision.
| Gen. Eisenhower, whose pre-
pared address last night omitted
any mention of that controver-
sial labor law, interpolated that
the next Congress must consider
revising it.
| The AFL appearance winds up
for the President a three-day
flying trip that carried his cam
paign for election of Republican
majorities to Congress in Novem-
Der to the Pacific Northwest be-
fore he flew here late yesterday
He planned to return to his
Denver work-and-play vacation
headquarters this afternoon.
| In major power policy speech
yesterday, dedicating the Nc
Nary Dam on the Washington
Oregon border - a speech the
president said was not intended
to please either group at the
| extreme ends" of the public-pri-
something to be rewarded but
something to be demanded
through proper use of ballots.
He said his chief aim is tC
carefully select men to operate