jun 10, 1933 - NRA est (June 1933)

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Emergency Congress authorized this; Most complex & far-reaching effort by New Dealers to combine immediate relief w/ long-range recovery & reform; Designed to assist industry, labor, unemployed; Industries had to work out codes of "fair competition" - hours of labor reduced to that employment could be spread over more ppl; Ceiling placed on max hours of labor, Floor placed under wages to est minimum levels;

Labor got more benefits under this; Workers formally guaranteed right to organize thru representatives of their own (not company's) choosing; "Yellow-dog" contracts forbidden, restrictions placed on child labor;

Industrial recovery thru this organization's "fair competition" codes aroused patriotism by mass meetings/parades; symbol = blue eagle, Enthusiasm for this → short period of upswing in business activity;

Too much self-sacrifice expected of labor, industry, public for scheme to work; Businesses publicly display eagle on windows but violate codes;

Supreme Court (1935) - said Congress couldn't delegate legis powers to executive in Schechter "sick chicken" decision, Further declared that congressional control of interstate commerce couldn't properly apply to local business, like that of the Schechter bros in Brooklyn, NRA = unconstitutional;

Congress authorizes Public Works Admin (PWA) in same act Congress makes this organization;

great for organized labor, New Deal expenditures → less unemployment → labor = more secure & assertive; Rash of walkouts in summer of 1934; When Supreme Court ended this organization, Congress filled gap w/ National Relations Act (1935) or Wagner Act

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