The only way to meet these increased needs for new weapons and more of them is for every American engaged in war work to stay on his war job--for additional American civilians, men and women, not engaged in essential work, to go out and get a war job.
Roosevelt calls for all Americans to contribute to the war effort by staying in or taking up essential jobs.
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