Congress of Industrial Organizations

A. You go to work every day to make someone else’s dreams come true. Underpaid, unappreciated, exploited and overworked. For years many workers rights advocates have fought for you. You think your work conditions are terrible now, they were worse. One of the most famous and accomplished advocates was John Lewis a devoted workers’ rights advocate who fought for many advancements we take for granted today. B. 1. America is built and founded off labor. A lot of advancement in the workplace today have been won by unions and the efforts of labor organizations. John Lewis founded one of the biggest institutions that is at the forefront of the labor movement, the CIO (Committee for Industrial Organizations, now the Congress of Industrial Organizations.)…

The National Defense Education Act of 1958 is establishes to the American public that the education system of America must be developed in order for there to be a highly skilled and technical workforce in order to meet up with industrial demands of the Cold War. With the establishment of the Act, the America economical society was impacted in which the economy grew tremendously due to the industrial and technological development which was made efficient by the newly trained workers. This…

In short, this act made it illegal to possess and transfer marijuana as long as it was not for medical or industrial use. It was issues under federal law that without medical or industrial use, it was illegal to have or sell marijuana within the United States. This act was then deemed unconstitutional by the 91st congress in 1970. The Controlled Substances Act of 1970 was put into place so that drugs could be better evaluated and studied so that drug abuse would decrease and strengthen law…

legislative action, which prompted Congress, in 1890, to pass the Sherman Act. The act was followed by several other antitrust acts, including the clayton act of 1914 (15 U.S.C.A. §§ 12 et seq.), the Federal Trade Commission Act of 1914 (15 U.S.C.A. §§ 41 et seq.), and the robinson-patman act of 1936 (15 U.S.C.A. §§ 13a, 13b, 21a). All of these acts attempt to prohibit anticompetitive practices and prevent unreasonable concentrations of economic power that stifle or weaken competition. …

1. What actions did President Roosevelt and Congress take to prevent the collapse of the banking system and reform its operations? Shortly after taking office, President Roosevelt went straight to work on preventing the complete collapse of the American banking system. Not even a week after taking office, Roosevelt forced banks to take a holiday, which suspended all bank operations, and called a meeting with Congress. On March 9, 1933, only five days after becoming President, Roosevelt and…

productions industries had failed but the New Deal aimed to change them for good. “Unemployment soared in the early years of the 1930s, and the labor movement seemed helpless, unable to protect jobs let alone wage rates” (Gregory, par. 1). The excellent changes the workers in labor unions experienced in the 1930’s was from the support of the Roosevelt administration and Congress during the New Deal. “The National Industrial Recovery Act (1933) provided for collective bargaining. The 1935…

In the flyer made by the unions, they are announcing how the C.I.O. won the support of the Japanese cannery workers for the C.I.O. following Cannery Workers. The C.I.O stands for the Congress of Industrial Organization, which is a federation unions that organized workers that belongs to an industrial unions in the United States. The flyer stated that the Japanese looked at C.I.O. with suspicion, fear and distrust because of false rumor about the C.I.O . The Japanese thought that the C.I.O. was…

Roosevelt’s New Deal. The goal of the agency was to institute codes that would enforce fair business practices and encourage economic growth (Buchholz). The short-lived organization is largely considered a failure, creating more problems than it solved due to mismanagement, corruption, and infighting (The National Recovery Administration). The NRA began with the introduction of the National Industrial Recovery Act in 1933. The purpose of the Act was to promote cooperation between…

In 1935, he introduced presented legislation to expand temporary work relief programs for the unemployed and to make a lasting economic security program. He also proposed expanding government financed work relief for the unemployed in which Congress replied by passing the Resettlement Administration; the Resettlement Administration directed provincial help exercises. Soon thereafter, Roosevelt 's organization proposed an arrangement for unemployment and disability insurance. The president…

The “First Wave” of feminism from the 1830s through 1920s was mainly organizations and project arranged by women suffragist who pushed for women’s rights. These women achieved many things that helped change the lives of American women forever, for example, women gained the right to vote in 1920. However, women were still expected to marry quickly and be a housemaker in the 1920s proving that not all issues were solved in the “First Wave”, but this was the foundation for the “Second Wave” of…