During the 1920s and the 1930s, mill owners and textile manufacturers were giving textile workers bad paychecks and loads of work, which the workers knew was totally unfair. Many people were looking for jobs but could not find one because mill owners were putting the work of two or three men, onto one man. The workers would just put up with everything because they were afraid of losing their jobs until September of 1934 where workers went on strike until the passage of the NRA, a code which provides a maximum and minimum number of hours one may work and minimum wage one may earn per week. To the workers, everything seemed too good to be true, and it was. Mill owners did not go by the code but continued doing what they were doing before, giving low wages and a lot of work to workers. Workers had gone on strike again but had failed at making a difference due to "the combination of the mill owners' intransigence, the Textile Workers' Union's lack of resources, the mill workers' increasingly desperate financial situation and Roosevelt's focus on the need for industrial peace to achieve economic recovery.
1) Why did it take so long for workers to go on strike? What had given them the courage to go on strike and risk their jobs?
2) What kind of impact did the mill workers have in the job industry?
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