United States 1932

Synopsis

The Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act (hereafter referred to as Norris-La Guardia) is a federal law passed in 1932 in an attempt to forbid court injunctions from being used to undermine or halt labor union activities. Under the law, federal courts were not allowed to invoke an injunction to stop any labor activity, including boycotts, pickets, and strikes. Also banned under the law were yellow-dog contracts. These documents were signed statements wherein workers, as a condition of employment, agreed not to join or support a union.

Timeline

• 1917: Russian revolutions.
• 1922: Inspired by the Bolsheviks' example of imposing revolution by means of a coup, Benito Mussolini leads his blackshirts in an October "March on Rome," and forms a new fascist government.
• 1927: Charles A. Lindbergh makes the first successful solo nonstop flight across the Atlantic, and becomes an international hero.
• 1929: On "Black Friday" in October, prices...