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he earns depends a great deal on the wages and purchasing power of the
workers in our factories and shops and stores. They are the customers
of the farmer and cannot buy farm products unless they earn enough wages.
The fact is that all of us are deeply concerned with wages,
allofus
because we are concerned with the well-being of all parts of our entire
economic system.
That is a simple truth. But like all simple truths, it is too
often forgotten. Management sometimes forgets that business cannot
prosper without customers who make good wages and have money in their
pockets; labor sometimes forgets that workers cannot find employment
and that wages cannot rise unless business prospers and makes profits.
Like most of you, I have been disturbed by the labor diffi-
culties of recent weeks. These difficulties stand in the way of re-
conversion; they postpone the day when our veterans and displaced war
workers can get back into good peacetime jobs. We need more of the good
sense, the reasonableness, the consideration for the position of the
other fellow, the teamwork which we had during the war.
It has been my experience in public life that there are few
problems which cannot be worked out, if we make a real effort to under-
stand the other fellow's point of view and if we try to find a solution
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