Labor leaders, most notably John L. Lewis of the United Mine Workers, propose to organize all workers, skilled and unskilled, in a single union to maximize bargaining power. The American Federation of Labor (AFL) staunchly opposes this idea, resulting in a split and the emergence of a new labor organization, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). The CIO becomes politically involved and pressures for passage of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 called the Wagner Act. The Wagner Act reaffirms right of workers to bargain collectively with employers through unions and creates the National Labor Relations Board as an enforcement mechanism. Businesses are prohibited from firing union organizers or threatening to close plants if workers join unions. There are strikes, many of them quite violent, until the Supreme Court upholds the National Labor Relations Act.

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