ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the political activities of other business groups and corporations. Any individual, firm, or corporation engaged in manufacturing in the United States, whose application is approved by the board of directors, may become an active member of the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM). The shift in the orientation of the NAM from international trade to labor problems occurred at the same time that the Massachusetts Federation of Labor was formulating labor’s “Bill of Grievances”. During the mid 1930’s, the NAM was joined in its publicity campaign by the American Liberty League, which was founded by several prominent industrialists from the Du Pont and General Motors organizations. Like the NAM, the Chamber of the United States sought to employ the anti-corruption sentiment surrounding the McClellan Hearings to get some basic changes in the law affecting the labor-management power structure of collective bargaining.
