CONTENTS - ouroboros ponderosa
CONTENTS - ouroboros ponderosa
CONTENTS - ouroboros ponderosa
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('I all IIlIillll :lppr():lclr /We:IIIII' ('V('I1 I1l(lI'C ohviollS, Wilh lIH' Irl'lltl low:lld<br />
il'wcr skilled wpr"'L' rs, rht' h'(kration's atte,mpts to sell itself t() indusliV<br />
as ;1 frail kly peace··keeping i list it ulioll were increasingly out or touch wi<br />
jls capahilities. The Crash, moreover, did not awaken the eraft unioll<br />
1" ,,,lns 10 a new awareness of the changing industrial order. Nolrd<br />
hllsillessman Edward Louis Sullivan classified the AFL as simply<br />
"rc;tcli(mary,"<br />
III the early 1930s, some labor leaders became involved with a group<br />
" t tar-sighted businessmen who saw the need for mass unionization. John<br />
I,. I.ewis and Sidney Hillman, destined to play major roles in the<br />
lmmlilation of the National Recovery Act of 1933 and the formation of<br />
('IIlisted in the cause of industrial unionism. Gerard Swope, the above<br />
Ihe CIO, came to realize by 1932 that government and business might be<br />
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