The Archive · 1937

Block Island, R.I, Sept. 4

President Roosevelt. in his Labour

Day declaration, to-day asked the people to maintain an attitude of sanity and reason" toward capital and labour disputes and to work toward conferences to replace strikes.

Although newspapers containing copies of the speech made yesterday by the chairman of the Committee for rial Organization, Mr. John L.

in which he launched a thinly veiled attack on the President, were put aboard the President's vessel, he made no changes in prepared his statement.

The President also declared that Federal machinery should be perfected to adjust capital and labour disputes and that the country is faced with an "urgent need to insure all workers a living wage for a fair day's work."—United Press.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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