... prevent decreases in wages or long working hours. Nonetheless, the Great Depression of the 1930s, in spite of it all, benefited the unions. In 1932, a man by the name of Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected President. Roosevelt, taking the leadership of the all but paralyzed nation on March 4, 1933, (The Presidential Honeymoon), undertook a number of programs designed to recharge the economy, feed the unemployed and restore confidence. At his urging, " ... -CIO. ("Labor Union Movement," 2001, para. 8) Consequently, this spawned a drastic increase in membership in unions in the early...

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... protestors comprising of representatives protested, "Great Britain, Canada, Italy, and Spain put protests before the State Department agains t the pending alien land bill of California" (Jun 158). The Eurocentric nature of Californians changed the minds of the law makers to amend and change the bill to appease the "European" protestors. "A new section was added, which excepted from the operation of the act lands which were valuable chiefly ... which discrimination could take place. Because Asians could not become citizens, therefore they had no rights in America and this would later re...

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