FDR: “This Act defines, as a part of our substantive law, the right of…”

On the recordJuly 4, 1935

This Act defines, as a part of our substantive law, the right of self-organization of employees in industry for the purpose of collective bargaining.

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Democratic · New York

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Statement on Signing the National Labor Relations Act

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