Excerpts from the Press Conference
10/09/1941
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As their Commander in Chief I call upon you, my fellow Americans, to oversubscribe the 1945 Red Cross War Fund.
That such a body would be best able to perform its nationally important tasks if created independently of the War Labor ...
We can be proud of all that the Red Cross has meant to them.
That the whole question of guaranteed wage plans and the possibility of their future development in American industries ...