Although it can be said that the government did nothing, that fact that it didn't intervene against these unions efforts and later strikes was much better that the hostility of earlier presidents before Franklin Roosevelt. Although the AFL focused on skill laborers and also did little for the working man, there were other movements such as the CIO that created more unskilled workers unions and paved the way for some significant strikes...
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An example of this is the SWOC, Steel Workers Organizing Committee. With efforts focused on the unskilled laborer, campaigns of the CIO were able to lead to significant and industry changing strikes. For example, inspired by the recently passed Wagner Act, which protected labor's right to bargains and supervised election of unions, rubber workers in Akron, Ohio sat down on the job in 1936...
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American Labor Movement: Development Of Unions Everyone worked eighty hours or more a week for extremely low wages. Men and women earned twenty to forty percent less than the minimum deemed necessary for a decent life...	8 / 2094
Labor Unions In America A group of radicals and anarchists became involved in this campaign. Two days later, a death occurred from shooting during a riot in the McCormick Harvester plant in Chicago when police arrived and tangled in the chaos...	2 / 530
Labor Day Five hundred thousand workers joined in a year. Their goals were an eight-hour work day, a minimum wage, arbitration rather than strikes, health and safety laws, equal pay for equal work, no child labor under the age of fourteen, and government ownership of railroads, telegraphs and telephones...	3 / 684
Labor Unions Therefore, in this new time and place, workers were only learning a small part of a trade instead of an entire trade, putting them on the same level with everyone else and making no one unique in terms of job skills, causing even more unemployment and probably the call for the establishment of unions in the first place...	2 / 558