 In 1933 , the National Industrial Recovery Act created the National Recovery Administration ( NRA ) . The NRA allowed industries to create " codes of fair competition , " intended to reduce destructive competition and to help workers by setting minimum wages and maximum weekly hours . Flanders was appointed to the industrial advisory board of the NRA . In a speech before a 1934 conference of the code authority members , attended by President Roosevelt , Flanders opposed a proposal by the Roosevelt administration to require that businesses cut worker hours by 10 percent and raise wages by 10 percent in order to spread employment more widely . Ultimately , economic policy moved away from the codes system . 
