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In reply to the discussion: FDR Democrats, check in here! [View all]joshcryer
(62,292 posts)Statistics don't tell the whole story. You can't go "oh well labor flourished under him, he's not responsible for anything past that."
Labor would be doing very well right if he repealed the Norris-LaGuardia Act and avoided creating the NLRB which directly enabled Taft-Hartly.
What many don't understand is that the unions were autonomous, they acted outside of the government. By enshrining labor within the confines of the government (NLRB), it allowed legislation to neuter labor (Taft-Hartly). The laws against labor were made under the auspices of maintaining civil order (to limit striking and nurture it), but there had already existed laws that maintained civil order (don't assault people, etc).
FDR may not have seen it coming (and therefore I don't suggest he intended to kill labor), but Huey Long most certainly did see it coming, and had he been elected the 1%ers never would've existed.