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The National Labor Relations Board, to which the Wagner Act had given birth, began operating on 27 August and was immediately inundated with lawsuits challenging its authority and existence. Spurred on by the Supreme Court's recent opinions in the Schechter case, organizations such as the ultraconservative, anti-New Deal American Liberty League sought injunctions to paralyze the board and to prevent it from pursuing its congressional mandate. While the government was struggling to respond to the challenge, labor grew increasingly restless and belligerent. Toward the end of the year the major rubber companies announced an increase in work hours with no corresponding increase in pay. The workers reacted swiftly: they struck the plants and in the process refused to give up possession of the company's factories. To its first important test the newly formed Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) responded with both aid and...
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