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The Gallup Poll
Growing Number Of Voters Believe
Truman Regime Moving To The Left
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Country Apparently Un
changed In Favoring Mid
dle-of-Road Policy
Following is the ninth of *
series of news stories analyzing
political sentiment today re
garding parties, candidates and
election issues._
By GEORGE GAELtJP
Director, American Institute of
Public Opinion
PRINCETON, N. J., Feb. 2— A
growing feeling throughout the
country that Mr. Truman is mov
ing leftward has cost the president
considerable support' from con
servative elements.
The feeling that he has finally
tipped his hand and is going left
comes at a time when the Ameri
can electorate is as nearly mid
dle-of-the-road in its political de
sires as it is possible to be.
■ The number of voters who want
the government to move toward
the left is almost exactly counter
balanced by the number who want
it to move to the right, while the
majority think it ought to steer
a middle course between right and
left. There has been no impor
tant- change in that sentiment for
many months.
Mr. Truman was following a
middle-of-the-road course in earl
ier days, most voters thought, but
today nearly half the country
thinks he is showing greater par
tiality toward labor and various
liberal groups than inward any
one else. This shift as seen by
voters has not been accompanied
by any particular shift toward the
left among voters themselves.
This partly explains why the more
conservative Democrats and Re
publicans have been criticizing
the president. As reported last
week, general voters approval of
him has dropped 12 percentage
points since last November, and
most of the shift has taken place
among conservatives.
To some extent Mr. Truman has
also lost support from liberal vot
ing elements who feel that he has
not gone far enough to the left.
But the defection from that side
does not compare in extent with
the defection from the conserva
tive side.
The country’s opinions about Mr.
Truman’s policies were sounded
through two questions in the In
stitute’s survey as follows:
“Which of these three policies
would you like to see the govern
ment follow—(1) go more to the
left by following more of the
views of labor and other liberal
groups, (2) go more to the right
by following more of the views of
business and conservative groups,
or (3) follow a policy half-way
between the two?”
After indicating his choice, each
voter was asked: “Which of those
three policies do you think the
government has been following?”
The results to the first question
as shown in today’s poll and also
in a similar poll last September,
follow:
Last
, Today Sept.
Should go more
to left _18% 16%
Should go more
to right _21 18
Should keep
middle of road_52 55
No opinion _9 11
• • *
A PICTURE of sharp contrast
is revealed when voters are asked
to give their opinion about which
way the Truman administration is
moving.
Whereas fewer than one-fifth
(18 per cent) want the adminis
tration to move to the left, more
than twice that number—44 per
cent—say they think it is going
in that direction now.
Although the majority of all vot
ers want a middle-of-the-road
'course, only 27 per cent think the
administration is steering such a
course now. A total of 13 per cent
think the administration is moving
toward the right, as compared
with 21 per cent who want it to
go in that general direction.
A profound change has occurred
since September in the way the
country sizes up Mr. Truman’s
position. Note the contrast in the
following table showing the num
ber who thought Truman was go
ing left, right or center last au
tumn, and the number today.
Opinion on What Direction
Administration is Taking
Last
Today Last
Going left _44% 10%
Going rifht _13 17
Middle of road_27 54
No opinion_16 19
* * *
THE VIEWS of Democrats and
Republicans polled in the survey
provide interesting contrasts for
students of politics.
An overwhelming majority of
Republicans think the President is
leaning toward the views of labor
and liberal groups, whereas they
would like to see him either keep
to the middle of the road or go
more to the right.
Among Democratic voters the
desire of the majority is also for
a middle course, but a larger num
ber want to see leftward moves
than is the case with Republican
voters.
The party vote follows:
What Should Administration Do?
Demo* Repub
crats licans
Go left..27% 6%
Go right ..—10 36
Keep to middle _52 B1
No opinion _11 7
What b it Doing?
Demo- Repub
crats licans
Going left _-.30% 63%
Going right_15 9
Keeping in
middle .35 16
No opinion _20 12
,
WHY IS TRUMAN LOSING
CONSERVATIVE SUPPORT ?
Wr LAST SPPT
^B MOST VOTERS WANTED
^B TRUMAN TO TAKE
^B MIDDLE-OF-THE-ROAD
w ryfl-H course
BJJ'^HrB and most voters
THOUGHT HE WAS
DOING SO
Scfuul
Today most voters
STILL WANT
MIDDLE -OF -THE- ROAD
COURSE
BUT INCREASING NUMBERS
think he IS NOW
GOINGTOTHE LEFT
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COMMITTEES HOLD
PALMETTO BILLS
COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 2.—(Si
Scores of legislative measures fed
into house and senate hoppers this
year rested today in committees,
many of them stymied there by
lack of committee quorums.
"Bills to permit mutual betting at
horse races, return the state to
prohibition, increase income tax
exemptions, permit women to serve
on juries, and a host of others
have long lain in committees.
Some have fialed to get commit
tee action because of the press of
consideration for other, preferred
bills; others have been sidetrack
ed to sub-committees; but many
have bit the dust on points of
quorum.
Lack ol a quorum at a house
commerce and manufacturers com- j
mittee meeting this week tempor- |
arily shelved five industrial bills
—measures that would require
elevators and air conditioning in
textile mills, set wage and hour
standards in intrastate industry,
and prohibit wage discrimination
against women.
The bills were discussed vehe
mently by Rep. John Long of Un
ion, author of two of them, as he
orated manfully for favorable com
mittee reports.
General Counsel T. Frank Wat
kins of the South Carolina cotton
manfacturers association then cit
ed, at length, textile mills’ opposi
tion to the measures.
But after almost two hours of
that, when a committee vote was
sought on reporting out the mea
sure, a committee member said
“I question a quorum.’* A count
revealed that less than half the
committee membership was pres
ent, and that broke up the meet
ing.
The same situation has faced
every committee in the legislature
at one time or another, although
the judiciary committees and the
finance and ways and means com
mittees usually attract a majority
attendance despite their large
memberships.
RATE CONFERENCE
TO BE CONDUCTED
COLUMBUS, O., Feb. 2,—(U.R)—
Atty. Gen. Hugh S. Jenkins, said to
day a regional conference would be
held here Tuesday to prepare for
a Feb. 18 hearing in New York on
the action of nine states to enjoin
the interstate commerce commis
sion from putting its proposed
“class” freight rates into effect.
Representatives from Ohio,
Michigan, Wisconsin and Indiana
will attend the regional session,
Jenkins reported.
The commission plan, he explain,
ed, would increase freight rates
about ten per cent on certain manu
factured products In northeastern
states and decrease rates a like
percentage for southern and some
western states,
States bringing action against the
commission, besides the regional
group, are: New York, Pennsyl
vania, New Jersey, Delaware and
Maryland. Jenkins said all six New
England states also had joined the
action.
Listed by Jenkins as opposing any
change in proposed rate revisions
are: Tennessee, North and South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Ala
bama, Louisiana, Texas, Okla
homa, Kansas, Nebraska, North
and South Dakota, Minnesota and
Arkansas.
LSU Flashing Radar
Signals Into Space
BATON ROUGE, La., Feb 2 —
(U.R)—Radar signals are being flash
ed continuously into space from
the Louisiana State university cam
pus, it was revealed tonight by John
W. Lipscomb, director of electronic
research at LSU electronic
While it was deemed possible that
these signals are contacting the
hafT °ther pIanets> no at
tempt has been made to record re
flections, Lipscomb said
Reason for this, he expiained was
?SereeieSfiedlSiaCy«s °ofd °f
air lying 50 to 50(1^ n °f ,ranfled
earth. 500 miles above the
Tom Connally Defends
AFL In Warm Speech
LONDON, Feb. 2.— (U.R) —Tom
formally of Texas, co-author of the
5mith-Connally act which was
'ought by U. S. labor unions, shook
lis finger, beat his chest and hurled
lis glasses on the table today in an
impassioned defense of the Ameri
:an Federation of Labor.
Waving his long arms in an ora
:orical technique developed during
17 years of rough-and-tumble sen
ate debate, Connally pointed at Sov
iet UNO delegate Andrei I. Grom
yko and roared:
“Forty billion dollars worth of
military equipment that helped you
is you stood before Stalingrad and
Moscow came from the hands of
American labor. And now that the
war is won, American labor wants
tair treatment.”
Dial 2-3311 For Newspaper Service
Don Juan Plans Talks
On Throne Restoration
LONDON, Feb. 2.— (U.» —Don
Juan, 34, Spanish pretender, left
for Lisbon by plane today for
strategy conferences on restoration
of the throne which his father, Al
fonso XIII, abdicated in 1933.
Court circles said Don Juan held
several “ultra secret’’ meetings
yesterday on strategy for resurrec
ting the monarchy. Another report
e visit, a social call on his second
c< sin, King George VI, could not
be ’onfirmed.
r 'fore leaving London, the pre
tender reportedly told his support
ers t’‘at he is going to Lisbon “with
an open mind, and future cam
paigning for the throne is likely to
be governed by decisions taken in
Portugal.”
Cancer causes about 163,000
deaths a year in the United States.
Diseases of the heart kill about
COMMITTEE^Jr^
WASHINGTON, Feb 2 *
Labor department disclod^
continuing committee !oia?,
last December by Pre^31^!
man’s labor-management6111 Tt*
ence, would meet here V.COnfe'«
The disclosure, by Edear t daJ.
ren, chief of the Federal L' '?sr>
ti°n service aroused im""1®5'
speculation as to what rokTdlat«
mittee—composed of lab 6 COn’
dustry leaders-would ':''4 k
new government approachi„W anf
settlements. ch to strik,
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