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National Recovery Administration
| Name: | National Recovery Administration |
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| Dates: |
1933 (Life/Active Dates)
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| Biography/History: | The National Recovery Administration (NRA) was an agency established by president Franklin Roosevelt in 1933. The goal of the administration was to eliminate "cut throat competition" by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of fair practices and set prices. The NRA was created by the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) and allowed industries to get together and write "codes of fair competition." The codes supported establishing set maximum wages and weekly hours for workers, as well as minimum prices at which products could be sold. The NRA, symbolized by the Blue Eagle, was popular with workers. Businesses that supported the NRA put the symbol in their shop windows and on their packages, though they did not always go along with the regulations entailed. Though membership of the NRA was voluntary, businesses that did not display the eagle were very often boycotted, making it seem mandatory for survival to many. In 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously declared that the NRA law was unconstitutional, ruling that it infringed the separation of powers under the United States Constitution. The NRA quickly stopped operations, but many of its labor provisions reappeared in the National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act), passed later the same year. |
| Related Objects: |
4142.1 (Sign, National Recovery Administration Member Sign, 1933 - 1935)
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