10 juill. 1935 - Wagner Act (Nation Labor Relations Act) made effective (July 135)

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(aka National Labor Relations Act) protected right of labor to organize in unions & bargain collectively w/ employers, est National Labor Relations Board to monitor unfair labor practices on part of employers; allowed start for decades of labor protest;

Justice Owen J. Roberts starts to vote more liberally, Court more sympathetic to New Deal upheld this & SS Act; Created new National Labor Relations Board for administrative purposes, reasserted right of labor to engage in self-organization & bargain collectively thru self-chosen reps; → unskilled workers organize selves into effective unions;

Leader - John L. Lewis - boss of United Mine Workers, (1935) Lewis organizes Committee for Industrial Organization (CIO) within AFL,

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