SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL JUSTICE By the time I became President I had grown to feel with deep intensity of conviction that governmental agencies must find their justification largely in the way in which they are used for the practical betterment of living and working conditions among the mass of the people.

I felt that the fight was really for the abolition of privilege; and one of the first stages in the battle was necessarily to fight for the rights of the workingman.

For this reason I felt most strongly that all that the government could do in the interest of labor should be done.

The Federal Government can rarely act with the directness that the State governments act.

It can, however, do a good deal.