That act should be repealed!

The Wagner Act should be reenacted.  However, certain improvements, which I recommended to the Congress 2 years ago, are needed.  Jurisdictional strikes and unjustified secondary boycotts should be prohibited.  The use of economic force to decide issues arising out of the interpretation of existing contracts should be prevented.  Without endangering our democratic freedoms, means should be provided for setting up machinery for preventing strikes in vital industries which affect the public interest.

The Department of Labor should be rebuilt and strengthened and those units properly belonging within that department should be placed in it.

The health of our economy and its maintenance at high levels further require that the minimum wage fixed by law should be raised to at least 75 cents an hour.

If our free enterprise economy is to be strong and healthy, we must reinvigorate the forces of competition.  We must assure small business the freedom and opportunity to grow and prosper.  To this purpose, we should strengthen our antitrust laws by closing those loopholes that permit monopolistic mergers and consolidations.

Our national farm program should be improved-not only in the interest of the farmers, but for the lasting prosperity of the whole Nation.  Our goals should be abundant farm production and parity income for agriculture.  Standards of living on the farm should be just as good as anywhere else in the country.

Farm price supports are an essential part of our program to achieve these ends.  Price supports should be used to prevent farm price declines which are out of line with general price levels, to facilitate adjustments in production to consumer demands, and to promote good land use.  Our price support legislation must be adapted to these objectives.  The authority of the Commodity Credit Corporation to provide adequate storage space for crops should be restored.

Our program for farm prosperity should also seek to expand the domestic market for agricultural products, particularly among low-income groups, and to increase and stabilize foreign markets.

We should give special attention to extending modern conveniences and services to our farms.  Rural electrification should be pushed forward.  And in considering legislation relating to housing, education, health, and social security, special attention should be given to rural problems.

Our growing population and the expansion of our economy depend upon the wise management of our land, water, forest, and mineral wealth.  In our present dynamic economy, the task of conservation is not to lockup our resources but to develop and improve them.  Failure, today, to make the investments which are necessary to support our progress in the future would be false economy.

We must push forward the development of our rivers for power, irrigation, navigation, and flood control.  We should apply the lessons of our Tennessee Valley experience to our other great river basins.