AKA the National Labor Relations Act, this act gave workers the right to bargain through unions they chose and outlawed employers from interfering with union activities. It also created a National Labor Relations Board to supervise plant elections for unions, investigate the actions of employers, and issue "cease and desist" orders against practices which were unfair.
1014 (Aug. 30, 1935), raised federal income tax on higher income levels, by introducing the "Wealth Tax". Gained popularity for her compassion for the needy and challenges to the wealthy, she advocated rights for women and blacks and commitment to social welfare and stoicism. ", Many wealthy people used loopholes in the existing tax code to evade these taxes. Case in which a group of black boys were accused of raping two white women on a train.
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However, these stipulations were limited and did not require employers to bargain with labor representatives. Treasury secretary who advocated the reduction of federal expenses and budget, arguing that the stagnant economy was caused by a reluctance of investors stemming from fear of gov intervention in the economy. An African American self-educated writer who worked under the Federal Writer's Project to convey his bitterness at Jim Crow Laws through his novel Native Son, which relayed the story of a man from the ghetto driven to murder by forces outside his control. Group in Texas which protested low wages and was made up of Mexican women. a. They worked on environmental and public works projects for $30 per month, $25 of which was sent to their families. The Revenue act of 1934 is discussed in the American Economic Review of Septem-ber, 1934; the Act of 1932, in the issue of December, 1932, and the issues in which each of the other recent federal revenue acts is treated are shown on page 428 of the Review of September, 1928. 1014 (Aug. 30, 1935), raised federal income tax on higher income levels, by introducing the "Wealth Tax". However, he later grew angry at FDR's lack of commitment to unions and became a Republican, but failed to carry the working vote. Economic theory created by John Maynard Keynes which argued that the only way to solve a depression was through massive, sustained, government spending. In a speech he made in October 1936 Roosevelt claimed that the tax had created a great deal of hostility: "The forces of organized money... are unanimous in their hate for me - and I welcome their hatred. Because the chicken had come to rest within the state, it was not a part of interstate commerce. It successfully made rivers navigable, fostered soil and forest conservation, created industry and unions and led to the creation and improvement of schools and libraries, in addition to its original purpose. This would serve the dual purposes of providing them economic security and stimulating the economy, but was criticized for spending over half the national income on 9% of the population, a fact which Townsend ignored. Act which would replace the General Allotment or Dawes Act, which had broken up tribal lands in n attempt to assimilate Indians. 1014 (Aug. 30, 1935), raised federal income tax on higher income levels, by introducing the "Wealth Tax". Tax Commission.] However, the programs exorbitant costs led Roosevelt to disband the project and end the employment of many. It was a progressive tax that took up to 75 percent of the highest incomes.[1]. Act which allowed sound banks to reopen and appointed managers to oversee unsound banks. Created as a multipurpose, national corporation which would provide jobs by hiring people to build dams which would in turn create hydroelectric power, thus bringing both electricity and employment to an impoverished area. According to William E. Leuchtenburg, the author of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal (1963): "The outcry from high-income brackets obscured the fact that much of Roosevelt's tax program was sharply regressive. He promoted himself as a radically egalitarian friend of the people, along with his Share-the-Wealth Plan.