FDR: “We have assumed this task and we shall not shrink from it in the future.”

The Secretary of the Interior shall make employment available and provide protection to all employees working at such mines.

We must go on to do all in our power to conquer the doubts and the fears, the ignorance and the greed, which made this horror possible.

By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the statutes of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

That such study should be conducted by a specially appointed commission charged with the duty of examining into the experience which industry and labor have thus far had with these plans, and of reporting the facts for the benefit of the…