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FDR: That decent conditions and adequate pay for labor, and just return for agriculture, can be secured through parallel and…

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That decent conditions and adequate pay for labor, and just return for agriculture, can be secured through parallel and simultaneous action by forty-eight States is a proven impossibility.
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FDR
Democratic · New York

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Roosevelt asserts that achieving fair labor conditions and agricultural returns through state action alone is impossible.

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