workmen if they had any pep. He complained” (pg 322). Demonstrating that many employers believed union strikers should be out in jail for causing trouble. The NRA was bringing power to the president to regulate industrial corporations and it was effective in bringing America closer to democracy by giving the president unconstitutional powers. By creating the Wagner Act it encouraged American workers to join unions. It guaranteed workers the right to join unions and bargain collectively. The law created a powerful National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The Board could order elections in which workers voted for the union they wanted to represent them. The NLRB could also order a stop to unfair practices used by employers against unions. It provided a great opportunity to increase union membership, but the drive was delayed at first by a dispute within the American Federation of Labor.

During the late 1930s, Congress enacted other reforms that benefited labor: The Social Security Act of 1935 created a system of government-sponsored unemployment insurance and old-age pensions. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 regulated wages and hours. Minimum wages were established to help workers maintain a decent standard of living. After the law was passed wages began to rise as the economy turned to war production. Hours were shortened to give them more time for freedom. The law also forbade the labor of children under 16 in most occupations. However this new law still excluded millions of working people as did social security, especially minorities of the American working class. America’s labor movement in the late 1930’s proved to have shifted America to the left into a democratic state, but still need to improve in racial equality around the nation. Ironically Democratic Party was a strong party of the decade it was still racist against African Americans and Mexican Americans, yet it received double the votes in the election of 1936 when most of Roosevelt’s discriminated against African Americans although the president did denounce lynching in America.

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