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OCR Page 1 of 7Far Releare 10.00AM
SPEECH OF HONORABLE HARRY S. TRUMAN ON LABOR
Sept DAY 4 1944
Mr. Chairman, Ladies, and Gentlemen:
For many years the first Monday in September has been set
aside and dedicated to labor. This is altogether fitting for
modern civilization was created and can continue to exist only
because we have learned to work together for our mutual advantage.
The United States has been fortunate to possess a vast
wealth of natural resources. But without labor, those resources
would have been sterile and unproductive. Through labor they have
been made the foundation for the greatest civilization and the
highest standard of living ever enjoyed by any nation in the
world's history.
This is an election year, and labor, like all other
groups, in our country, is entitled to know what kind of treat-
ment it may expect to receive from the hands of those who seek
high office.
No candidate is ever foolish enough to declare himself
to be an en emy of labor. Everyone in politics talks of and
sometimes shouts his friendship for labor. Even those who act
against you, assure you that whatever they do is for your own
good.
You all know that the greatest advances ever made in the
history of labor have been made under the administration of the
greatest friend labor ever had -- Franklin D. Roosevelt, President
of the United States.
Through experience, sometimes bitter experience, labor
has learned to judge a candidate or a party by accomplished fact
rather than by talk and campaign speeches.
You know what you want, and you have learned that you
seldom get it by voting for those who promise much but who have
no record of ever doing anything for labor.
What you want today, what all American labor wants, is
peacetime security, steady work, the knowledge that you will have
a job after this war is over.
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