A lot has been said about Franklin, dear Roosevelt, the savior of our people, the great humanitarian.

Yes, Roosevelt was not

not Tom Girdler of Republic Steel who was shooting down the strikers.

He was not that kind of a man, for a man who represented the corporate interests in America, he was what you would call a liberal man.

But the main thing that Franklin D. Roosevelt was, he knew that the setup was in trouble, and he knew that Herbert,

Herbert, and Wall Street, what they were doing or running it into the ground. And he knew and understood that the trouble was going

on in America, the rebellion that was going out in America, that you couldn't settle it with the

guns. He knew that the system had to make concessions

in order to save itself.

And he proceeded on the course,

rendering the kind of service to the corporate system in America,

that many of them, they were too dumb to realize

as to what he was doing for them.

They were too dumb to appreciate it, but he saved the system. Yes, under pressure

of the multitude of millions, he gave ground on some of the outstanding labor and social legislation, the minimum wage and our law,

the Wegener Act, on employment compensation, Social Security, not since those early years of the New

Deal have we seen a single gain of that importance to the working people and to the people of America.

Not one significant piece of social legislation of the same magnitude when When the system was saved, they clammed down again.

Yes, we have made progress.

The working people have made progress in 40 years.

They made progress because every bit of progress they made. They had to

drag the system kicking and scratching and screaming all the time. Not a single concession was made willingly no matter what the

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