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- Emergency Banking Act
- insurance up to $5,000
- new deal
- proposals and programs adopted by pres FR his response to the great depression.
- Fireside Chats
- FDR radio broadcast telling ppl about new deals and solutions to the great depression.
- hundred days
- 1st 100 days of pres FDR's term in office.
- Committee of Industrial Organizatons
- sought to organize the nation's unskilled workers.
- Congress of Industrial Organization
- Labor group that split off from the American Federation of Labor in 1938 and organized unskilled steel, auto and other workers.
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NLRA
National Labor Relations Act - legalized practices allowed only unevenly in the past, such as closed shops- in which only union members can work- and collective bargining
- National Labor Relations Board
- program used to force the provisions of the Wagner Act.
- Fair Labor Standards Act
- banned child labor and established a minimum wage for all workers covered under the act.
- Social Security Act
- established a system that provided old age pensions for worker; survivors' benefits for victims of industrial accidents unemployment insurance and aid for dependent mothers and children bloind and phisically enabled.
- Huey Long
- said "All Men are Kings" louisiana politician in 1930's called the kingfish suggested redistributing large fortunes by means of grants to families assasinated in 1935.
- American Federation of Labor
- done little to attract unskilled industrial workers during the half century of existence.