The Railway Labor Act of 1934 thereupon sought, by imposing collective bargaining upon the railroads and through a National Mediation Board and _ad hoc_ emergency boards appointed by the President (nothing new, of course, in railroad regulation), to avoid exacerbation of the emergency through rail strikes.[84] The War Labor Disputes Act permitted drastic presidential and War Labor Board regulation of labor-management relations to avoid impeding or delaying the war effort in consequence of strikes.[85] The Labor Management Relations Act, better known as the Taft-Hartley Act, created special procedures for delaying strikes whenever in the opinion of the President a threatened strike or lock-out affecting an entire industry or substantial part thereof would imperil the national health or safety if the strike occurred or were allowed to continue. This Act of course, grants the determining power to the President only where interstate commerce, in all its varieties, is involved.[86] _Housing_: The Veterans’ Emergency Housing Act of 1946 declared that the long-term housing shortage and the war combined to create an unprecedented emergency shortage of housing, particularly for veterans of World War II and their families.[87] President Truman promptly cited the building program provided for in the Act and the unprecedented emergency shortage of housing in exercising his authority under the Tariff Acts to remove the duty from articles certified by the Housing Expediter as timber, lumber, or lumber products suitable for the construction or completion of housing accommodations.[88] The Housing and Rent Act of 1949 also was directed at this emergency.[89] _Agricultural Commodities_: Congress occasionally has recognized the existence of an emergency with regard to a particular agricultural or other commodity. Without using the term emergency, Congress plainly was taking emergency action when it adopted a concurrent resolution in June 1934 directing the Federal Trade Commission to investigate conditions with respect to the sale and distribution of milk and other dairy products.[90] Decline in the price of milk to the farmer had produced severe hardships and suffering to milk producers throughout the United States and strikes and violence in many rural and metropolitan centers. The Resolution went on to say that the continuation of the practices then engaged in by milk distributors and certain leaders of milk cooperatives, seriously endangered the efforts of the Agricultural Adjustment Administration and of the several States to alleviate and remedy the distress so widespread among dairy farmers in the United States at the time. If this distress were permitted to continue the result would be the destruction of the already sorely pressed agricultural industry. Congress clearly noted the inability of the states to cope with an emergency situation and proceeded to initiate its own action.