Draft of Address at the Opening Session of the Labor-Management Conference
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OCR Page 1 of 9DRAFT OF SPEECHI TO LABOR MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE
Andrew of the Presendent
Washington D.C. November 5, 1945
In a radio broadcast to the American people last Tuesday
"NATIONAL
ARCHIVER AND
REDORDS
night, I said:
. SERVICE*
"I am convinced that if labor and management will approach
each other, with the realization that they have a common goal, and
with the determination to compose their differences in their own
long range interest, it will not be long before we have put in-
dustrial strife behind us. Labor is the best customer management
has; and management is the source of labor's livelihood. Both
are wholly dependent on each other; and the country in turn is
dependent on both of them."
This conference has been called to provide a nation-wide
opportunity to fulfill that objective. Representatives of labor
and management are meeting here at this conference table, to dis-
cuss their common problems, and to settle differences in the public
interest. Here is the democratic process in action - in its best
form.
On this conference have been based many high hopes of the
American people. Their eyes are turned here in the expectation
that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for in-
dustrial peace and progress.
I want to make it clear that this is your conference - a
management-labor conference - and not a Government conference.
You have not been chosen by me or by any government official.
You have been selected by the leading labor and industrial
organizations in the United States. There has been no inter-
ference by government in that selection.
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