the new deal
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The New Deal. I.Background II.Creating the Safety Net A.Relief B.Jobs C.Social insurance III.Union Legitimacy A.Norris-LaGuardia B.NRA C.Anti-Racketeering Law of 1933 D.NLRA IV.Response A.Workers B.Employers C.Constitutional Conflict. Values. Public control - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
The New DealI. BackgroundII. Creating the Safety Net
A. ReliefB. JobsC. Social insurance
III. Union LegitimacyA. Norris-LaGuardiaB. NRAC. Anti-Racketeering Law of
1933D. NLRA
IV. ResponseA. WorkersB. EmployersC. Constitutional Conflict
Values• Public control
– Economic morality
– Progressivism• SOL Frances Perkins
• Cooperation
– End of individualism
• Experimentation
– Emergency mentality
Relief
• In 1933, Congress enacts $4.8B relief bill
• $1B per year
• 2% of GDP
Relief line, San Antonio, TX, 1939
Works Progress
Administration
• Culture– Writers, artists,
actors
• Promotes unions, Democratic policies
Norris-LaGuardia
• Precedes New Deal
• Passed in 1932 by new Congress– Democratic majority– Progressive Republicans
• Rep. Fiorello LaGuardia (R-NY)
• Sen. George Norris (R-NB)
• Declared labor’s right to organize
• Outlawed yellow dog contracts
• Barred federal judges from issuing labor injunctions
“The Little Flower”
National Recovery
Administration
• Economic Planning– Agricultural Adjustment
Administration
• Industrial self-governance• Right to join labor union—Section
7A
National Labor Relations Act
• Also known as the Wagner Act (1935)
• Encourage collective bargaining to stabilize wages
• Guarantees worker’s right to join a union
• NLRB– arbitrates– counts ballots
Senator Robert Wagner (D-NY)
Anti-Racketeering Act of 1933
• New legitimacy requires policymakers redefine criminality
• Federal, state, local campaign against racketeering ensues
• Word is vague
• AFL uses to establish itself as the source of legitimacyAl Capone, 1929
Workers Respond• Progressive
unions make big gains– United Mine
Workers– Amalgamated
Clothing Workers
• AFL confronts manufacturing– Federal locals– Automobile
• Toledo• Auto-lite
• General strikes– Minneapolis– San Francisco
Minneapolis teamsters fight police, 1934
Employers
• Rhetorical
– Call NIRA fascism
– Call Democrats “communists”
• Practical– TextilesJames H. Rand, Jr.
President of Remington-Rand, Inc.Cited for "wholesale violations" of
NLRA