National+Industrial+Recovery+Act

Dan Aschermann Emma Madura NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT- JUNE 1933 - MAY 1935  Franklin Delano Roosevelt Fireside chat on the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 Good evening my fellow Americans, Throughout the first 100 days of my presidency, I have been creating many different Acts to try to get our nation’s economy up and running again. As you may know, this last year has brought many hardships to everyone in this great nation. I am speaking to you today with good news. I have developed a new program known as the National Industrial Recovery Act. This act is developed to help you to get back on your feet and find a job to support your family. The NIRA is designed to promote recovery and reform of the economy, encourage collective bargaining, and develop a minimum wage and maximum work hour limit. We also want to eliminate child labor in the industry. The establishment of a code system of fair competition for every sort of industry is also necessary to help to rebuild our economy. By making structural changes to our economy, we will be able to alleviate unemployment. This Act will protect the consumers, competitors, employers, and the employees, by giving them the option of being in a labor union. Any business that is willing to adopt my new plan will receive a blue eagle seal of approval showing that they are willing to work with the government to improve our economy. The other small parts of my new NIRA are the development of a public works administration and it also contains minor amendments to the emergency relief and construction act. Thank you for your understanding and help in improving this national crisis that we are experiencing.

Title I By the time it was overturned by the Supreme Court just three weeks before it expired, the Act had done everything that it was needed to do, and was no longer needed. More than 700 industries had been codified 4 million unemployed people had been absorbed into industrial jobs 23 million workers were under codes Establishment of production quotas Codes of fair competition had been established Minimum wages and work hours had been established Title II Worked too slowly to have an immediate effect on national recovery, but it had many long term successes.
 * Immediate Effects of the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933**


 * Long Term Effets of the National Industrial Recovery Act**
 * The Works Project Administration (WPA), which was the second part of the NRA, was allowed by the court to stand. The WPA went on to spend billions on reforestation, flood control, rural electification, water works, sewage plants, school buildings, slum clearance, student scholarships, and other projects.
 * Later the National Labor Relations Board. and the Rural Electrification Administration were passed by the Congress in order to replace the labor portions of the NRA, but Congress did not bring back the industrial code system



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