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By 1934, moreover, it was becoming increasingly apparent to the now rapidly growing unions that the intent of Section 7(a) was being subverted. Employers had taken advantage of the provision to establish company unions that they used to factionalize their labor forces. Under the NIRA employers had been given the authority to create and impose industrywide codes controlling not only prices and production but also wages, a power which they frequently abused to protect profits. In practically every industry employers were resisting collective bargaining demands, and doing so successfully. Neither Section 7(a), which lacked any enforcement mechanism, nor the president had been of much help. But Congress was. Later that same year Sen. Robert Wagner introduced a bill to protect the nation's industrial workers by assuring them of the right to organize and by establishing a National Labor Relations Board. The board would be authorized...
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