Last Autumn, on several occasions, I expressed my faith that we can make possible by democratic self-discipline in industry general increases in wages and shortening of hours sufficient to enable industry to pay its own workers enough to let those workers buy and use the things that their labor produces.
Roosevelt expresses his belief in the potential for democratic self-discipline to improve wages and working conditions.
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