A valuable short book on the 1934 strike wave from the League for Industrial Democracy written at the time, with a very useful bibliography of sources.

Strikes Under the New Deal by Maurice Goldbloom, John Herling, Joel Seidman, and Elizabeth Yard. League for Industrial Democracy, New York. 1935.

Contents: Foreword by Joseph Schlossberg, Introduction, The Position of Labor Prior to N..I.R.A., Enactment of the N.I.RA., Hours Wages and Codes, The Strike Wave of 1933, Attempts to Restrict the Right to Strike, Employers’ Efforts to Modify Section 7a , The National Labor Board, Wages Prices and Union Organization in 1933, The Strike Wave of 1934-5, Industrial Relations Boards, The National Labor Relations Board, The Schechter Decision and the New Labor Board, Causes of Strikes Under the New Deal, The Toledo Strike, The San Francisco General Strike, The Minneapolis Truckers’ Strike, The Nation-wide Textile Strike, Agricultural Strikes, Appraisal of Strikes under the New Deal, Footnotes, Bibliography. 78 pages.

The League for Industrial Democracy (LID) was the successor to the Intercollegiate Socialist Society. Founded in 1921 to provide ‘Education for a New Social Order Based on Production for Public Use and Not for Private Profit’ many of its activists were around the Socialist Party. In 1922 ‘Socialist Review’ developed into ‘Labor Age’ and Norman Thomas became director. Some of its leading members would go on to form the Conference for Progressive Labor Action in 1929 led by AJ Muste. The LID produced a number of important pamphlets and studies through their Labor Publication Society and throughout much of the 1930s served as the base for the ‘Militant’ faction of the SP.

PDF of pamphlet: https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A4491