To strengthen these practical measures should be our immediate duty; it is not at present necessary to consider the larger and more general governmental schemes that most European governments have found themselves obliged to adopt.
Roosevelt calls for immediate action to strengthen practical measures for worker support, while deferring broader governmental schemes.
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