No longer a matter of anti-Black vagrancy laws and moral panic about hobos, no amount of then existing #FifthEstate power cloud sweep away 15 million unemployed and their families.
1934 saw only 10% more strikes than the year before, with 1.4 million strikers—or 1% of national population. Labor activity only really took off with the Wagner Act of, notably, 1935. Non-agriculture union membership, alone, would then quadruple in the next decade, climbing from 3% to ~9% of national population.
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