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 * National Relations Act (Wagner Act) **[[image:http://lawyersusadcdicta.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/nlrblogo.jpg width="136" height="138" align="right"]]

__Fireside Chats:__ My fellow Americans the Era of the Common Man has arrived in the shape of Labor Unions. No longer will you work for your employers, your employers will work for you. This is all thanks to the passing of the National Relations Act created by Robert Wagner. In effect their will be a National Relations Board to oversee everyhting as a whole. With the creation of this act the worker's life will be a little easier and more plentiful in a time of great economic and social unrest. With this unrest the American people are forgetting that we are all one nation that needs to work together in order to survive. Hopefully, with this new act America can take the violent fights and strikes off the street and turn them into negotiations from the Labor Union as a whole. God Bless. "It ought to be on the record that the President did not take part in developing the National Labor Relations Act and, in fact, was hardly consulted about it. It was not a part of the President's program. It did not particularly appeal to him when it was described to him. All the credit for it belongs to Wagner." - Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (1946). __Immediate Effects:__ The immediate impacts of the National Relations Act (Wagner Act) were immense and showed an amazing social role change, around 80,000 women were part of Labor Unions. The common worker was given even more of a voice and the American people once again believed in their government.

__Long Term Effects:__ The 1935 Wagner Act was later ammended by the Taft-Harley Act of 1947. Later, in 1959 it was ammended again by the Landrum Griffin Act. The purpose of such ammendments were to keep the good of the Wagner Act, but limit the Union leaders power. The majority of the act is still in use today.

__ Political Cartoons: __ At Left: " Our New Artificial Propagation" by Jay Norwood in 1939

At Right: "They Gave Johnnie a Gun For Christmas" by Jay Norwood in 1941. John Llewellyn Lewis was the president of United Mine Workers of America and Committe for Industrial Organization

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