Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business itself. All but the hopelessly reactionary will agree that to conserve our primary resources of man power, government must have some control over maximum hours, minimum wages, the evil of child labor and the exploitation of unorganized labor.


Message to Congress on Establishing Minimum Wages and Maximum Hours (May 24, 1937)

Franklin D. Roosevelt Quotes

Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business...

Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business...

Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business...

Enlightened business is learning that competition ought not to cause bad social consequences which inevitably react upon the profits of business...