10.2: The Second New Deal

One program of the Works Progress Administration, called Federal Number One, employed

• displace tenant farmers

• people in the arts

• workers in the construction industry

• young men ages 18 to 25

The Wagner Act set up a process whereby union members could take complaints about an employer to a neutral party who would listen to both sides and decide on the issue, called

• binding arbitration

• labor relations

• sit-down strikes

• union activism

Formed after passage of the Wagner Act, the Committee for Industrial Organizations set out to organize

• all skilled and unskilled workers in the automobile industry

• all unskilled workers in the steel industry

• office workers in General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant

• white collar workers in Michigan

President Roosevelt and his advisers saw the Social Security Act primarily as

• an insurance measure

• a relief measure

• a retirement pension measure

• a welfare measure

For President Roosevelt, the payroll taxes imposed on workers and employers to pay for Social Security benefits, were

• a compromise with New Deal critics

• a crucial element of the program

• unpopular and politically risky

• unfortunate but necessary

Two years into President Roosevelt's first term, New Deal programs had created more than two million jobs, but more than 10 million American workers

• could find only temporary employment

• did not support Roosevelt

• joined labor unions

• remained unemployed

The National Union for Social Justice was formed in 1935 by

• Father Charles Coughlin.

• Huey Long.

• the Schechter brothers.

• Francis Townsend.

To pay for New Deal programs, President Roosevelt abandoned a balanced budget and began using

• binding arbitration

• deficit spending

• direct relief

• the gold standard

Under National Industrial Recovery Act-- business, labor & govt were allowed to cooperate to set up

• codes of fair competition

• tax regulations for each industry

• hiring requirements for each industry

• trusts to promote competition

Formed after passage of the Wagner Act, the CIO set out to organize who?

• all skilled and unskilled workers in the automobile industry

• all unskilled workers in the steel industry

• office workers in General Motors' Flint, Michigan, plant

• white collar workers in Michigan