I have the facts right here in my statement.
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We are grateful for the privileges and rights inherent in our way of life, and in particular for the basic freedoms, which our citizens can enjoy without fear.
The same reasons which keep other workers from wishing to become coal miners also keep them from expecting---or their employers from offering--wage increases to match every increase the miner receives.
It would have involved us in all-out war in the Far East, and we have been strenuously trying to avoid that all the time.
In this celebration let us join with the peoples of the other free nations of the world in recognition of our common purpose to defend and further the rights and freedoms of all people as proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human…





