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A 5 page paper that examines the fundamental change in the relationship between the American public and the U.S. Government that occurred in the 1930s and the reasons behind this change. Discussed are protest actions undertaken by labor unions of this era, the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin Roosevelt during this time, and how the two factors worked together to bring about a major political shift. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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American history could this statement have echoed more truth than during the years between 1929 and 1941, the era commonly known as the Great Depression. The age of industrialization
that had swept America during the latter part of the nineteenth century and the earlier part of the twentieth century had effectively placed the United States in the top position
as the worlds leading industrial nation (Sherrow PG). It had also, however, effectively placed the power of prosperity in the hands of the selective few while leaving the majority
of the multitude in the paralysis of poverty. By the 1930s, when the depth of the Depression began to be felt by an already depressed American labor force, the American
Federation of Labor, or AFL, had been in existence for over forty years (Sherrow PG). The AFL, however, had been originally created for pre-Industrial Age craftsmen and skilled laborers,
and the majority of its membership was slanted toward the more specialized areas of skilled labor. The Age of Industrialization had brought an influx of semi-skilled factory workers into
the ranks of the AFL, however, a workforce of laborers whose interests often clashed with those of the more skilled laborers. As the Great Depression entered its first decade,
unemployment rates soared and conditions and wages plummeted among the factory workers and tensions between the two labor factions stretched to the breaking point. II. Desperate Measures By the
time the American Federation of Labor convened for its annual meeting in Atlanta in 1935, the division between the two factions of the party had become a definite dividing line
and the center of the conventions heated debate (Yates 1). On one side of the debate stood the more conservative craft unionists, who, led by spokesman Bill Hutcheson, insisted
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