Our Dates in History

The Norris-LaGuardia Act, passed in 1932, during the last year of the Hoover Administration, was the first in a series of laws passed by Congress in the 1930s which gave Federal...

In 1933, Congress passed the National Industry Recovery Act (NRA) at the request of newly inaugurated President Franklin Roosevelt. The Act sought to provide codes of “fair competition” and to fix...

Passed in 1936, the Walsh-Healy Act stated that workers must be paid not less than the “prevailing minimum wage” normally paid in a locality; restricted regular working hours to eight hours...

By far the most important labor legislation of the 1930s was the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935, more popularly known as the Wagner Act, after its sponsor, Sen. Robert...

The Social Security Act was drafted during Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s first term by the President’s Committee on Economic Security, under Francis Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the...