NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT JUNE 1933 NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT U.S GOV'T LEGISLATIVE INDUSTRY NEW DEAL EMPLOYMENT U.S GOVERNMENT AND CONSTITUTION IN JUNE 1933 CONGRESS PASSED THE NATIONAL INDUSTRIAL RECOVERY ACT NIRA AS PART OF PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT'S NEW DEAL THE NIRA DECLARED A NATIONAL EMERGENCY BECAUSE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION IT WAS DESIGNED TO REVIVE INDUSTRY AND BUSINESS AND TO REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT THROUGH INDUSTRIAL SELF REGULATION THE NIRA CREATED THE NATIONAL RECOVERY ADMINISTRATION NRA WHICH ESTABLISHED INDUSTRY WIDE CODES EACH INDUSTRY ESTABLISHED FAIR COMPETITION CODES TO STABILIZE PRODUCTION AND PRICES THE CODES ALSO ESTABLISHED MINIMUM WAGES AND MAXIMUM HOURS FOR LABORERS THE AGENCY ULTIMATELY ESTABLISHED SOME 550 BASIC CODES AND MORE THAN 200 SUPPLEMENTARY CODES THAT AFFECTED ABOUT 22 MILLION WORKERS COMPANIES THAT SUBSCRIBED TO THE NRA CODES WERE ALLOWED TO DISPLAY A BLUE EAGLE A SYMBOL OF COOPERATION WITH THE NRA THE NIRA ALSO GUARANTEED LABOR'S RIGHT TO ORGANIZE AND BARGAIN COLLECTIVELY TITLE II OF THE NIRA ESTABLISHED THE PUBLIC WORKS ADMINISTRATION PWA THE GOAL OF THE PWA WAS TO PROVIDE JOBS AND STIMULATE THE ECONOMY BY HIRING PEOPLE FOR PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS SUCH AS BUILDING ROADS AND PUBLIC BUILDINGS BETWEEN 1933 AND 1939 THE PWA SPENT MORE THAN 4 BILLION ON SOME 34000 PROJECTS IN 1935 THE SUPREME COURT RULED IN SCHECHTER POULTRY CORP V U.S THAT SECTION 3 OF THE NIRA WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL SECTION 3 HAD ALLOWED THE PRESIDENT TO IMPLEMENT THE INDUSTRIAL CODES THE COURT ARGUED THAT WITH THE NIRA THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH HAD ASSUMED TOO MUCH LEGISLATIVE POWER THUS THE NRA WAS INVALIDATED
