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Walter Reuther Wires Eisenhower
Demanding Defense Secty. Wilson
Apologize or Retire from Public Life
(Bv the Associated Press)
A press conference remark by
Secretary of Defense Wilson and
a new flareup over the security
risks-in-government issue stood
out as the latest skirmish points
Tuesday in the campaign battle
of 1954.
Wilson set off a flurry in an
swering newsmen’s questions on
Monday in Detroit. The former
General Motors Corp. president
said that while he had a “lot of
sympathy” for the jobless in labor
surplus areas, he has always
“liked bird dogs better than ken
nel-fed dogs.”
Walter Reuther, head of the
CIO and of the United Auto
Workers, read a published account
of the press conference and
promptly sent a . telegram to
Eisenhower demanding that Wil
son “publicly retract” the state
ment or “be asked to retire from
public life.”
While a spokesman at the sum
mer White House in Denver said
Eisenhower would have no com
ment on the Reuther telegram be
fore it was received, others were
quick to speak up on the issue.
In the Democratic camp Patrick
N. McNamara, his party’s nomi
nee for U.S. senator from Michi
gan, said Wilson’s remark about
“bird dogs” and “kennel-fed dogs”
was “typical of the dark age type
of thinking in the present admin
istration.” He likened it to the
comment attributed to French
Queen Marie Antoinette during
the French Revolution—“when
she was told the starving people
had no bread,” McNamara said,
“she said ‘let them eat cake.’ ”
Sen. Olin D. Johnston, (D-SC)
said in Washington that Wilson
“will live to see the day he’ll re
gret his remarks.”
On the Republican side, Sen.
Ferguson of Michigan, seeking to
retain his seat against McNam
ara’s bid, said in Grand Rapids
that he “would not express my
self in the same way” as Wilson
about unemployment. “Any un
employment,” Ferguson said, “is
a calamity to the man, his family,
his city, state, and the nation.”
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of the President, I do not believe
he would be in a position to rep
resent properly the viewpoint of
this administration at the meet
ing tonight.”
Wilson, planning to leave De
troit for Chicago this afternoon,
made this comment on Gov. Strat
ton’s suggestion for cancellation
of Wilson’s scheduled speech:
“The governor doesn’t know me
well enough to know my real
concern for the unemployed. He is
making two mistakes—first he is
letting the opposition interpret
my attitude toward unemploy
ment and second he is taking
their misinterpretation and ac
cepting it.”
The “dogs” affair started when
Wilson told a news conference in
Detroit he has “a lot of sympathy”
for the unemployed, but always
had “liked bird dogs better than
kennel-fed dogs.” He added: “You
know, one who’ll get out and hunt
for food rather than sit on his
fanny and yell.”
This touched off a flurry of
criticism from Democrats, CIO
president Walter Reuther and
AFL chief George Meany and
from a few GOP candidates, who
took the view that Wilson’s re
mark was an unwarranted slap at
the unemployed.
Wilson yesterday got out a
statement that he meant “no in
vidious comparisons, nor insinua
tions likening people to dogs in
any sense.” He said his remark ;
was intended to underscore his
admiration for “spirit and initia
tive” in job hunting, and that
“people of the adverse political
party” are trying to make capital
“on a misinterpretation of the full
meaning of what I actually said.”
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