The most complex product of the Hundred Days Congress was the National Industry
Recovery Act, which was meant to help labor, industry, and the unemployed. Although
Roosevelt insisted in his second fireside chat that the Act was only a partnership
between business and industry and the national government, this legislation intruded
into business far more than ever before. The bill was finally passed on June 16, 1933,
after objections from the Senate, which insisted that the bill would only promote the
concentration of wealth and power. Hugh Johnson was chosen to run the National
Recovery Administration, or NRA, which was to administer the Act. The bill called for
individual industries to write up codes of fair competition, decided maximum hours of
labor per person, and introduced minimum wages in order to spread work among the
greatest number of people. Labor was granted the right to collectively bargain and the
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- Fall '07
- Siegenthaler
- White House, National Industry Recovery, power. Hugh Johnson, blue eagle symbol, unique managerial style
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