National War Labor Board
The National War Labor Board was a federal agency created in April 1918 by president Woodrow Wilson. The purpose of the NWLB was to determine to keep agruement from happening between employers and employees and to ensure liability and productivity in the war. The new National War Labor Board was created in 1942 by FDR. The new National War Labor Board was created to charged with acting an to stop disputes between parties that dealt with labor-management dispute cases, thereby preventing the work stoppages which might hurt the war effort. The NWLB dealt with companies like automobiles, shipping, railroads tracks, and telegraph lines. The NWLB was originally divided into 12 Regional Administrative Boards which handled both labor dispute settlement and wage stabilization functions for certain regions. NWLB was expanded to control over wages and prices by stipulating that any adjustment of wages had to be cleared through the National War Board Labor.
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/ead/htmldocs/KCL05316.html
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/roosevelt-recreates-the-national-war-labor-board
War Production Board
The War Production Board was established as a government agency on January 16, 1942 by FDR. The purpose of the War Production Board was to regulate the production of weapons and materials in the United States for World War 2. The War Production Board had Americans bring in their scrap metal to help make goods for the war. Military aircraft production which totaled 6,000 in 1940 jumped to 85,000 in 1943. Factories that made silk ribbons produced parachutes, automobile factories built tanks, typewriter companies converted to machine guns, and a lot of other factories converted into making goods for the war. Without all the citizens back home making weapons and materials for war, we would have never won the war. Some people don't realize that without the people back home, the Allied wouldn't have won the war. From 1942- 1945 the United States made a total of $185 billion worth of supplies for the war. The WPB was abolished on November 3, 1945. The remaining of the War Production Board was transferred to the Civilan Production Adminstration.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/encyclopedia/entries/W/WA021.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0851490.html
I feel like without these boards created we wouldn't have won the war especially the War Production Board. The WPB helped out a lot by producing goods for the troops over seas. I feel like women didn't get a lot of credit for WW2, but they help us win Word War 2.
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Well done Jordan! Perhaps having more than one paragraph per topic would have been better though!