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"There are two reasons why I want to end by talking about reemployment.
Tomorrow is Labor Day. The brave spirit with which so many millions
of working people are winning their way out of depression deserves respect
and admiration. It is like the courage of the farmers in the drought
areas.

That is my first reason. The second is that healthy employment conditions
stand equally with healthy agricultural conditions as a buttress of
national prosperity. Dependable employment at fair wages is just as
important to the people in the towns and cities as good farm income
is to agriculture. Our people must have the ability to buy the goods
they manufacture and the crops they produce. Thus city wages and farm
buying power are the two strong legs that carry the nation forward.

Re-employment in industry is proceeding rapidly. Government spending
was in large part responsible for keeping industry going and putting
it in a position to make this reemployment possible. Government orders
were the backlog of heavy industry government wages turned over and
over again to make consumer purchasing power and to sustain every merchant
in the community. Businessmen with their businesses, small and large,
had to be saved. Private enterprise is necessary to any nation which
seeks to maintain the democratic form of government. In their case,
just as certainly as in the case of drought-stricken farmers, government
spending has saved."