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PRESIDENT’S APPEAL TO RIVAL ORGANISATIONS fIi.P.A. —By Electric Telegraph—Oopyrtrhtl MIAMI (Florida) 25th February. President Roosevelt has urgently requested the heads of the two rival, labour organisation, the American Federation of Labour and the Committee of Industrial Organisation, immediateIly to appoint committees to negotiate a peace agreement. He gave four major reasons for it: — (1) “Because it is right.” (2) “Because responsible officers from both groups seem to me to be ready and capable of making a negotiated and just peace.” <3) “Because your memberships ardently desire peace and unity for the better ordering of their responsible life in the trade unions and their communities.” (4) ‘Because the Government of the United States and thd people of America believe it to be a wise and almost necessary step for further development and co-operation between free men in a democratic society such as ours.”
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 27 February 1939, Page 7
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