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Fast, fun facts and Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ's)
about the National
Recovery Administration (NRA).
Which emblem served as the symbol for the
National Recovery Administration? The
symbol of the NRA was the Blue Eagle.
Businesses were allowed to use the NRA "Blue
Eagle" as a symbol that "we do our part" as
long as they remained in compliance with
code provisions
What did the National Recovery
Administration do? The NRA ran the
program to oversee that businesses and labor
worked in cooperation with the government to
implement voluntary business codes and rules
of fair competition
Why was the National Recovery
Administration unsuccessful?
The NRA was unsuccessful because the complex
codes and rules were too difficult to
administer, business and labor leaders did
not support it, price fixing limited
competition, industrial production actually
fell and the U.S. Supreme Court ruled it
unconstitutional
Were there any successes?
Yes. The National Recovery Administration
(NRA) improved labor conditions in some industries,
ended child labor in the textile industry and aided the
unionization movement and the right to collective
bargaining for minimum wages. It also spread the
available hours of work among more employees reducing
unemployment. The Public Works Administration (PWA),
created by the NIRA law, was also a success and saw the
completion of 34,000 construction projects and reduced
unemployment levels
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The following fact
sheet contains interesting facts and information on the
purpose, effects and significance of the National Recovery Administration
as part of FDR's New Deal to combat the effects of the Great
Depression.
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National Recovery Administration Fact 1:
The development of
the National Recovery Administration (NRA) saw FDR turn
his attention to the problems in industry following the
measures he had taken to tackle the banking crisis and
the difficulties faced by the farmers
National Recovery Administration Fact
2: Like the farmers,
American businesses were suffering due to high
production rates and low prices.
National Recovery Administration Fact 3:
The National Industrial Recovery
Act of 1933 (NIRA) was passed as an attempt to recover the economy
of the United States and continued the government's policy of
creating federal agencies to manage the economy and bring about
Industrial recovery
National Recovery Administration Fact 4:
The NIRA was emergency
legislation, limited to two years. The law enabled the President to
suspend large sections of the antitrust laws for designated
industries. The antitrust laws apply to virtually all industries and
prohibited a variety of practices that restrained trade.
National Recovery Administration Fact 5:
The law not only contained
antitrust relief but also included labor provisions and a public
works program. The federal agency created under the act was the
National Recovery Administration (NRA)
National Recovery Administration Fact 6:
The NRA agency
authorized the President's representative to negotiate,
approve and administer codes proposed by business and
labor industry representatives
National Recovery Administration Fact 7:
The National Recovery
Administration (NRA) was under the direction of Hugh S.
Johnson, a member of the 'Brain Trust' of Franklin D.
Roosevelt. Hugh S. Johnson was an energetic, domineering
and outspoken man who pushed his "blue eagle" campaign
to reorganize American business in order to raise wages
and prices and reduce competition.
National Recovery Administration Fact 8:
The "blue eagle"
campaign used a blue eagle as its emblem and "We do our
part" as its slogan. Business owners who signed NRA code
agreements received signs to display in their businesses
and on their packaging, as long as they remained in
compliance with the codes .
National Recovery Administration Fact
9: The "blue eagle"
campaign was a powerful PR exercise that urged Americans
to purchase goods only from businesses that displayed
the "blue eagle" as a sign of patriotism "seal of
approval". In this way the NRA, which had limited power
to enforce the codes, used public opinion to pressurize
companies and businesses to join the scheme.
National Recovery Administration Fact 10:
Price setting codes were adopted
but this caused problems as companies were unable to cut prices and
increase their market share
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National Recovery Administration Fact 11:
The NIRA law contained a section
that related directly to the oil industry. This gave the President
and the NRA regulatory power over pipelines, interstate and foreign
transport of oil and petroleum products. It also allowed for
agreements between oil companies.
National Recovery Administration Fact 12:
Codes were
established to reduce working hours in order to create
more jobs
National Recovery Administration Fact 13:
Codes were put into
place that limited factories to two shifts per day, so
that work could be across as many different companies as
possible.
National Recovery Administration Fact 14:
Section 7a of NIRA
stipulated that workers should have the right to
organize and bargain collectively through their own
representatives and that no one should be banned from
joining an independent union. Many Business owners
disliked the codes that gave workers such rights.
National Recovery Administration Fact 15:
Other codes established minimum
wages. However, employers argued that paying high
minimum wages forced them to cover the additional costs
by charging higher prices.
National Recovery Administration Fact 16:
Textile magnates
announced their intention to abolish child labor in the
mills under the new agreed codes
National Recovery Administration Fact
17: The Public Works Administration (PWA),
created by the NIRA law and put public works programs
under the control of the federal government to organize
the construction of roads, bridges, dams and public
buildings such as schools, hospitals and post offices
National Recovery Administration Fact
18: The PWA completed
more than 34,000 projects around the country and was one
of the successful elements of the NRA
National Recovery Administration Fact
19: Many different codes
aimed at fair competition were established for various
industries. During its short history the NRA agency
established 557 basic codes and 208 supplementary codes
that affected about 22 million American workers.
National Recovery Administration Fact
20: It was not unusual for one
business to be governed by numerous codes and the complex rules soon
became too difficult to administer.
National Recovery Administration Fact
21: Despite of the
success of the Public Works Administration, the NRA
continued to lose the support from all sectors.
National Recovery Administration Fact
22: Industrial production
had actually fallen following the establishment of the
agency and it became obvious that NRA had failed to meet
many of its major goals and objectives.
National Recovery Administration Fact
23: Three
weeks before National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA)’s
reached its two-year expiration date, on May 27, 1935, the
Supreme Court unanimously declared that the law was
unconstitutional in Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United
States, nicknamed the "Sick chicken case". The ruling
also struck down labor's right to organize. The
Wagner Act, aka the
National Labor Relations Act, was passed on
July 5, 1935 that guaranteed workers the right to
organize Unions and to bargain collectively
National Recovery Administration Fact
24: In 1936 the
controversial National Recovery Administration (NRA)
came to an end. Subsequent New Deal legislation
incorporated some elements of NIRA, most notably the
labor provisions
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