Roosevelt’s 1941 Labor Day Radio Address

Editor’s Note: In honor of the Labor Day holiday in the United States, War on the Rocks is publishing a transcript of President Franklin Roosevelt’s Labor Day radio address from Sept. 1, 1941. * * *On this day — this American holiday — we are celebrating the rights of free laboring men and women.The preservation of these rights is vitally important now, not only to us who enjoy them—but to the whole future of Christian civilization.American labor now bears a tremendous responsibility in the winning of this most brutal, most terrible of all wars.In our factories and shops and arsenals we

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