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| 1933–35 |
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| NEW DEAL RELIEF LEGISLATION. The Federal Emergency Relief Act (approved May 12, 1933) authorized the RFC to make $500 million available for emergency relief to be expended by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration created by the act. | 1 |
| The Civil-Works Emergency Relief Act (approved Feb. 15, 1934) appropriated an additional $950 million, available until June 30, 1935, for continuation of the civil-works program and for direct relief purposes under the FERA. | 2 |
| The Emergency Relief Appropriation Act of April 8, 1935, was designed to provide relief and work relief and to increase employment by providing for useful projects; it appropriated $4 billion to be used nominally at the president's discretion. It further appropriated unexpended balances of several earlier appropriations aggregating about $880 million. | 3 |
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| 1933–35 |
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| NEW DEAL LABOR LEGISLATION. The Labor Disputes Joint Resolution (approved June 19, 1934) abolished the National Labor Board and created a federal agency for the investigation and mediation of labor disputes growing out of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). | 4 |
| The Railway Pension Act (approved June 27, 1934) provided a comprehensive retirement system for railway employees based on employer and employee contributions. This act was subsequently declared unconstitutional. | 5 |
| The Crosser-Dill Railway Labor Act (approved June 27, 1934) provided for the settlement of labor disputes on the railroads and outlawed company unions. | 6 |
| The Wagner-Connery Labor Relations Act of July 5, 1935, was designed to satisfy the complaints of labor organizations against provisions of the Recovery Act of 1933 as it affected them, and also to remedy their disappointment at losing the advantage of these provisions by the invalidation of that act. The act declared it the policy of the U.S. to encourage collective bargaining and to protect employees' freedom of self-organization and their negotiating as to their employment through representatives of their own choosing. New National Labor Relations Board created. | 7 |
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| Other New Deal Legislation |
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| The Beer-Wine Revenue Act (approved March 22, 1933) levied a tax of $5 on every barrel of beer and wine manufactured; reenacted portions of the Webb-Kenyon Act as a protection to states whose laws prohibited liquors with alcoholic content in excess of 3.2 percent. The states were left in control of the sale and distribution of liquor. | 8 |
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