National Recovery Act Parade, Biddeford, Maine, October 29, 1933. Courtesy of the McArthur Public Library.
National Recovery Act Parade, Biddeford, Maine, October 29, 1933. Courtesy of the McArthur Public Library.
Female textile workers from the Pepperell Mills at Biddeford, Maine, march in the 1933 National Recovery Act (NRA) parade. The NRA, a part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, brought together representatives of government, business owners, and labor to establish codes of fair practice. They worked together to set prices, production levels, minimum wages, and maximum hours.
Local Recovery Boards across the country staged massive parades promoting the act in 1933. New York City had a reported 250,000 marchers. One Texas newspaper reported that El Paso's parade was three miles long.