EPISODE · Jun 28, 2026 · 1 MIN
June 28 - An Important Step for Labor
from Labor History in 2:00 · host The Rick Smith Show
On this day in Labor History the year was 1936. That was the day that the U.S. Congress passed the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act. The bill had been proposed by the Secretary of Labor Francis Perkins. The act was part of the President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal effort to combat the ravages of the Great Depression.
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