Mobilizing+the+Workforce+Tlj

To prevent strikes from disrupting the war effort, the government established the National War Labor Board (NWLB) in March 1918. The NWLB often pressured industry to improve wages, adopt an eight-hour workday,and allow unions the right to organize and bargain collectively. in exchange, labor leaders agreed not to disrupt war production with strikers or other disturbance.