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Fireside Chat: Hello my fellow American citizens. This is your president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Today I would like to talk to you about a new act, called the National Recovery Act, or the NRA. The pressing problems that confront us are low wages and high working hours. This is not fair to our equal American people and our Government wants to change it. Many people are in debt due to these troubles in this American society. In order to overcome this Depression we need to come together and build a better economy. Starting with our businesses, all people should be paid equally and should not have to work excessive hours. Children should not be in our factories doing jobs that were made for adults. Would you like your child to be working in our factory? I do not believe so. Do you want little Bobby working in a factory being able to lose limbs? Children’s lives are like delicate flowers and they do not need to be working in difficult work areas. Therefore I propose the NRA! The NRA will help us get rid of all these problems. It will raise wages and have shorter shifts or lower working hours. It will also rid us of child labor, which is a big plus. This act will be voluntary but any businesses who participate in this act will be seen as patriotic and will bring lots of business to your company. So businesses owners I am calling on you to help your country. Help us out of this depression, help us make our country strong once more, and help us unite this country as one. Help us be a better nation without child labor and with higher wages and lower hours. Help families to be united again without having Daddy work all day and never see his wife or children. Once more this act will be called the NRA for the National Recovery Act. If you participate in this you will receive a sticker to put on the windows of your businesses. I strongly encourage everyone to buy from these businesses with the sticker in the window to show your patriotism for your country and to make America better. I thank you for your support and willingness to try new things. Your president, Franklin Roosevelt


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