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Show Utah Women Hear Demo Leaders Blast Republican Administration Utah Democratic Women attending at-tending the party's national work shop in Washington, D.C., this week heard Democratic Governor Gover-nor Averell Harriman of New York and other party leaders blast the Eisenhower administration adminis-tration and accuse it of a do-nothing do-nothing .indifferent attitude toward to-ward the current economic recession. re-cession. The Utah women, who arrived in the capital last week after a cross country bus trip, heard the New Yorker charge that the recession re-cession is "man made, resulting am ill-advised federal policies, (pened by the inaction of the enhower - Nixon administration. administra-tion. "These tragic conditions in our country are unnecessary," he remarked. re-marked. Governor Harriman also appeared ap-peared before the House Banking Committee. He told Congressmen that "the recession was not necessary, nec-essary, at least to the extent to which it has developed. It has been brought on by ill-advised policies and inaction on the part of the administration has allowed al-lowed it to develop. Also speaking to the women were Adlai Stevenson, presidential presiden-tial candidate in 1952 and 1956, and former President Harry S. Truman. Mr. Stevenson struck a similar note in his address to the Democratic Demo-cratic women. He said the Republican administration admin-istration is indifferent to the needs of the nation. Mr. Stevenson quoted the late President Franklin D. Roosevelt as having said it is better to have the occasional faults of a government govern-ment that errs in a spirit of charity than the "constant omissions omis-sions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference." Mr. Truman, who has been stirring up quite a rumpus during dur-ing his current visit to the capital, capi-tal, told the women that the administration's ad-ministration's money policies are at fault. He said the Treasury has so manipulated finances" as to rob the ordinary citizen to pay off political obligations to the gigantic gi-gantic financiers. "The famous high interest policy pol-icy is the basic cause of the Republican Re-publican failure to bring us a continuing prosperity," the former for-mer president said. House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Lyn-don Johnson also addressed the meeting. |