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    "ocrText": "s\nxxx\nARCHIVES \"NATIONAL RECORDS AND\n-4-\n8\n<<\nOur country is worried about our industrial relations. It\nhas a right to be. That worry is reflected in the Halls of the\nCongress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. You\nhave it in your power to stop that worry. I have supreme confidence\nin your ability to find a: democratic way to compose industrial\ndifficulties.\nUnder the patriotic pressure of a desperate war crisis, manage-\nment and labor have performed a miracle of production for four\nyears - working together voluntarily but under a measure of\nGovernment control. Those controls must soon disappear. Many have\nalready gone. And yet as soon a.s the first ones were taken off,\nindustrial strife appeared. Some of it was expected by the\nAmerican people in this period of adjustment. But I am sure that\nthey never expected anything like the amount of strife which has\nbeen threatened. And I know that the American people do not like\nit.\nIdo tlikit especially after\nthe Solemn promise Jose fq representa.\nI make no effort to fix the blame. I have tried to lay\ntime of fott management and lator that\nfairly before the people the position of labor and the position\nthey would cooperate with\nthrough the\nof industry. They both have problems - grave and worrisome\nAccontantion period\nproblems. But they are not insoluble problems. Essentially they\nare problems of adjustment to the drastic changes brought about by\ntheir government"
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