In his first address to the American people since last June, Mr. Roosevelt reviewed the nation's progress out of the economic morass.
"The employer who turns away from impartial agencies of peace, who denies freedom of organization to his employees, or fails to make every reasonable effort at a peaceful solution of their differences, is not fully supporting the Recovery Effort of his government," Mr. Roosevelt said.
Turning then to organized labor, he added:
"The workers who turn away from these same impartial agencies and decline to use their good offices to gain their ends are likewise not fully cooperating with their government."
It is time, he added, "That we made a clean-cut effort to bring about that united action of management and labor, which is one of the high purposes of the recovery act.
"There should be at least a full and fair trial given to these means of ending industrial warfare," The President continued, in reviewing the creation of federal labor agencies. "And, in such an effort we should be able to secure for employers and employees and consumers the benefits that all derive from the continuous, peaceful operation of our essential enterprises."
Criticism of the public works expenditures felt the presidential lash.
"To those who say that our expenditures for public works and other means, for recovery are a waste that we cannot afford," he said, "I answer that no country, however rich, can afford the waste of its human resources.
The President dismissed with a few words criticism of the constitutionality of many new deal projects. "We are not frightened by reactionary lawyers or political editors," he said. "All of these cries have been heard before."
In concluding, Mr. Roosevelt said he was opposed to a return of that definition of liberty "under which for many years a free people were being gradually regimented into the service of the privileged few.
"I prefer," he said, "and I am sure you prefer that broader definition of liberty under which we are moving forward to a greater freedom, to greater security for the average man than he has ever known before in the nation's history.
Sept. 80--President Roosevelt will confer with representatives of capital and labor next month in an effort to establish a trial period of industrial peace, he disclosed tonight in a vigorously worded message to the nation.
Neither the employers nor the workers, he said, will be asked to surrender weapons common to industrial war. Both groups, however, will be urged to give a fair trial to experiment for a reasonable time with measures "suitable to civilize our industrial civilization.
