With the introduction of the Congress of Industrial Organization and industrial unionization, significant strides in labor were made in the historically stagnant steel and auto industries. ... That was, until the stock market plummeted in 1929 and American economy collapsed. Discontent with the Republican Party's performance, America elected Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt into office in 1932. ... That is, the AFL generally shied away from industrial unionization as whole. ... Vocalizing this perception, one union leader declared, "American workers should not lean too much on the ...

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Growing industrial unrest particularly in western Canada provided an additional reason for the Anglo-Canadians to demand greater control of the alien community. Businesses in labor-intensive industries charged that the Industrial Workers of the World and socialist organizations were undermining the economy. ... By the fall of 1918 the industrial situation in Winnipeg had deteriorated again. ... By portraying it as nothing less than a Russian Revolution transplanted to North American soil they did succeed in swaying public opinion to their side until the investigation of the strike. The mos...

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Analyze the factors that contributed to the level of success achieved Struggling against low wages and long hours imposed by impersonal corporations, workers in the industrial age found strength in Labor Unions - but the work done by these unions had little or no impact on life in the end of the 19th century. ... Labor unions were also powerless in comparison to corporations which had an incredible amount of dominance in American society. ... During America's second industrial revolution, as people flocked to cities, many jobs were actually being eliminated by new technology and new ...

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