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Scare,
American
Plan,
New
Deal,
the
C.I.O
and
the
Dust
Bowl
American
Plan
Employer
language:
They
have
the
right
to
hire
whoever
they
want,
regardless
of
union
membership.
Reality:
Blacklis2ng
of
union
members
and
the
refusal
to
recognize
a
union-
even
if
the
majority
were
represented.
Name
American
Plan
was
created
to
exploit
the
sense
of
post-war
na2onalism
and
to
promoted
the
idea
of
rugged
individualism
Painted
labor
unions
and
ideas
of
collec2vism
as
subversive
and
foreign
and
alien
Every
man
to
work
out
his
own
salva2on
and
not
be
bound
by
the
shackles
of
organiza2on
to
his
own
detriment.
An2-Union
Strategy
Renewed
interest
in
using
injunc2ons
Injunc2ons
were
used
to
limit
picke2ng,
publicly
promo2ng
unions
or
strike
ac2ons,
speaking
to
workers,
mee2ng,
etc.
(1933)
Glass-Steagall
Act
(1933)
Commission
(1934)
Social
Security
Act
(1935)
Tennessee
Valley
Authority
(1933)
Wagner
Act
-
NaBonal
Labor
RelaBons
Act
(1935)
Works
Progress
AdministraBon
(1935)
AFL
leadership
took
the
posi2on
the
CIO
was
a
dual
organiza2on
that
had
set
itself
up
as
a
dual
authority
to
challenge
the
AFL
leadership
and
was
fermen2ng
insurrec2on
within
the
Federa2on.
In
September
5,
1936
ten
of
the
CIO
unions
were
expelled
from
the
AFL.
Interna2onal
Typographical
Union
and
Ha`ers
Union
were
not
included.
Despite
several
a`empts
to
resolve
the
conict
and
merge
the
unions
under
one
house
in
May
1938
ocially
formed
the
Congress
of
Industrial
Organiza2on.
CIO
had
con2nued
to
organize
throughout
the
tensions
End
of
1937
CIO
claimed
3,700,000,
AFL
claimed
3,400,000.
In
total
labor
double
in
size
to
those
numbers
reported
in
1932-1933.
CIO
Steel
Workers
Organizing
Commi`ee
(SWOC)
Steinbecks
Grapes
of
Wrath
gave
light
to
the
horrible
condi2ons
inside
the
labor
camps.
Discrimina2on
endured
by
the
Okies
proved
ee2ng
By
beginning
of
World
War
II,
most
had
begun
working
in
factories
in
Defense
industries
Whiteness
allowed
greater
entre
into
these
industries
and
agricultural
work
con2nued
to
be
foreign
immigrant
work