Timeline of Major Strikes, 1934
In his first year in office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt was wary of running a budget deficit. Consequently many early New Deal programs attempted to create temporary (rather than permanent) direct aid programs and to bring government planners, business and labor leaders together to create regulations. However, unemployment remained high and workers grew more militant. A wave of large and often violent strikes in 1934 put pressure on the government to do more to help workers.
Source | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, 2010.
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Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Timeline of Major Strikes, 1934,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1516.
Creator | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
Rights | Copyright American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.Item Type | Timeline
Cite This document | American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, “Timeline of Major Strikes, 1934,” SHEC: Resources for Teachers, accessed April 19, 2024, https://shec.ashp.cuny.edu/items/show/1516.
