5th Period Friday 3/2

Hey Everyone!! Today we started class with questions about interims and the Chapter 21-24 test. I hope you call did well. Here are the note we reviewed today:
Criticism and Alternatives to the New Deal
- complained that they New Deal ignored ordinary people
- Louisiana Senator Huey Long called for "Share of Wealth" program that guaranteed each American family $5,000 estate by redistributing the nation's wealth
- Father Charles Coughlin "Radio Priest" found the National Union of Social Justice
- he came to admire Hitler and Mussolini as they gained power
- denusciated democracy and Jews
- Francis E. Townshend called on the government to give senior citizens $200 a month credited that they would spend it

Growth of Labor Unions
- millions of workers joined labor unions 1933-1934 - it was encouraged by John L. Lewis the president United Mine Workers
- NIRA granted workers the right to join unions of their own choosing and employers had to bargain wages and hours
- employers gave workers little say
- ignored NRA's wages and hours
- workers started strikes - 2,000 all of the nation
- usually turned violent
- took their anger out at the polls and voted Democrat