When workingmen and women understand the loss of wages and the human suffering that result from work injuries, they will be prepared to cooperate in developing such programs and in observing safety rules.

I am very glad to welcome you here today to this conference on industrial safety.

I hope you will perfect this program in the next few days.

It is a mistake to act as if the cities were inferior administrative subdivisions.

A solution is required not only in the interest of the cities, but also in the interest of the State and Federal governments.

It has been obvious ever since the end of the war that we have needed bold and large-scale action on housing.

I believe that the end of this long and unnecessary struggle is in sight, and that this year will see the enactment of satisfactory housing legislation.

Here at home our citizens face less terrible problems.

In the old days, we used to concentrate on curing the sick.

One of the biggest problems facing us today is that of housing.

I feel very much at home before this Conference of Mayors.

The spirit of democracy is to find new ways of doing things for the common good.

If we let them have their way, they would not only have pushed the whole cost of living up another 10 or 20 percent, but they would have broken up the homes of thousands of low-income families.

In this country democracy is not a slogan--nor is it a propaganda smoke screen.

We are going to agree on a lot more things than we disagree on.

We have since grown to understand that unemployment is a national as well as a local problem, but we still have far to go in perfecting the democratic instruments by which we can maintain high employment and insure a progressively growing…

It is a terrible and shocking thing that the real estate lobby--which pretends to speak for those whose business is providing houses--has become the real enemy of the American home.

Another very serious matter facing our cities is the fundamental problem of finances.