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Document 52636

FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Re: the Black 30-hour work week bill (it led to the National Industrial Recovery Act two months later).
TLS: "Franklin D. Roosevelt" as 32nd U.S. President, 1p, 7x9. The White House, Washington, 1933 April 17. To Amor Hollingsworth, Boston. In full: "It was nice to have that letter from you. The Black bill undoubtedly will be amended. This takes my best wishes." At their November 1932 convention, the American Federation of Labor had drafted a bill which would prohibit in interstate or foreign commerce all goods produced by establishments where the work week was more than five days and the work day more than six hours. Alabama Senator Hugo L. Black introduced the bill to the Senate in December; Massachusetts Representative William P. Connery, Jr., Chairman of the Committee on Labor, introduced the bill in the House. The Senate passed the Black bill on April 6, 1933, 11 days before FDR wrote this letter. President Roosevelt instructed Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins to devise an alternative bill as a first legislative step to economic recovery. When it was presented to Connery's Labor Committee, it incorporated the Black bill's 30-hour work week with the additions of a minimum wage and government control of production. Businessmen, economists and industrial managers were against the Black bill and the administration's bill. A compromise was reached, resulting in a proposed National Industrial Recovery Act, which FDR sent to Congress on May 15, 1933. It was passed by both houses and signed into law by the President on June 16, 1933. The National Recovery Administration was set up under the National Industrial Recovery Act. Its aim was to stabilize production and prices through government regulation of wages and working conditions. On October 4, 1937, President Roosevelt made his first appointment to the Supreme Court, Senator Hugo L. Black of Alabama. Slightly soiled and creased. Overall, fine condition.

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