Our Soldiers Need
Work
Our soldiers and sailors are now returning home in great
numbers. We are receiving them with open arms and it is eminently fitting for
their return to be celebrated with great outbursts of patriotic enthusiasm. But
these men cannot live on cheers and music and flowers and kisses. The fairest
and finest thing we can do for them is to see to it that every many of them at
once gets a job.
I want every town and county in North Carolina to highly
resolve that no soldier or sailor shall be denied a chance to make a decent living.
Please lay this matter on the hearts of young people. Make it a matter of community
pride and patriotism. Let each community be very sensitive on this point. Let
no community be willing for another community to provide jobs for its heroes.
These men are neither afraid nor ashamed to work. They seek
no charity—they scorn it. They want a job, and they must not be denied.
Very truly yours,
T.W. Bickett, Governor
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