For example, it was unwise to expect the same agency to regulate the length of working hours, minimum wages, child labor and collective bargaining on the one hand and the complicated questions of unfair trade practices and business controls on the other.
Roosevelt critiques the unrealistic expectations placed on a single agency to manage diverse labor and trade issues.
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It will recommend agricultural policies and advise Nations on their food and agricultural problems, but it will have no power to coerce or command.
We all know that the reduction of Government-created barriers to trade will not solve all our trade problems.
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