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    "ocrText": "YRSMAN\n\"NATIONAL\nLincoln School\n-3-\nJersey City.\nThat era of the 1920's was the era of the open S hop\nand the yollow-dog contract, and the rockless use of labor in-\njunctions. The strength of labor unions was reduced to less\nthan three million members. Sweat shops abounded and child\nlabor was the order of the day. Shen the crash came, labor\nsuffered the brunt of it.\nIn 1932, more than 12 million men and women were un-\nemployed. Wages -- for those I ucky enough to have jobs --\nwore about forty-five conts an hour.\nIn 1933, this Government got a President and a Congress\nwith a heart. They cared something about labor. They cared\nsomething about the farmers. They cared something about the\npeople -- more than they did about money.\nThe Democratic Party set out to do S omething for the\npeople and did it. We did something for labor, not at t he ex-\npense of anybody elso but to round out a program for the good\nof all the people. We gave real protection to the right of\nworkers to join together in their own unions. We gave national\nrecognition to the right of collectivo bargaining. We established\na minimum wage and outlawed the sweat shops. We saved homes from\nforeclosures and holpod to provide now homes on torms that work-\ners could a fford.\nIf you remember, back in 1932, 123 thousand farmers\nwere kicked off their farms. Last year, there were less han\n800 who C ouldn't pay the interest on their mortgage. People\nwore pushed out of their homes SO fast that when the Democrats\ncame in, they had to form the great Home Owners Loan Corporation\nwhich saved millions of homes for millions of people. The Repub-\nlicans didn't do anything about it.\nWe provided protection a gainst the loss of learnings due\nto old age and death.\nThe Democratic Party gave the country a Now Deal. And\nthat New Deal paid off too. It was good for the country. It was\ngood for labor. It was good for the farmer. It was good for\nevery citizen in the United States.\nThere is this difference: We have 61 million, nearly\n62 million peoplo at work in his country today. There is\nnobody walking the streets, hunting for a job. If a man wants\na job, he has the opportunity. The farmers are in the most\nprosporous condition they have ever been in inthe history of\nthe workd -- and they a re not in t hat conditionat the e expense\nof the country. Farmers and labor go along side by side,\nand when they are both prosperous the whole country is pros-\nperous and everybody profits by it. The big corporations that\nthey talk SO much about have made more money in the last three\nthan they lover made before in history -- and that's money made\nafter taxes. And yet they cry about it and say that we are\ntrying to hold them down. Why, they are in botter condition\nnow than they have ever been in history.\nNow, when a man does work these days, his hourly pay\nis about three times as much as it was in 1932. Now, 1 labor\nunions have 16 million members, and that's a good thing for\nthe whole country. Some people have complained that the Demo-\ncratic Party paid too much attention to the things that labor\nwanted. I'm going to conféss something to you; I've gotten a\nlot of advice from labor leaders, and most of it has been good\nadvice. When it wasn't good, I didn't take it. They have the\nwelfare of t he C country at heart just as much as anybody -- and\nI will say, a great deal more than a lot of people. And I in-\ntend to keep getting advice like that for the next four years.\n(OVER)"
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