Boston’s many projects include the Sumner Tunnel, army base and bathhouses in the North End and "L" Street in South Boston, as well as the construction of the "Emerald Necklace", making up the Fenway area of the parks and Jamaica Way auto paths and ponds and rivers. There would not be full employment in Local 103 until the war started in 1941, but Local 103 members would espouse the democratic policies of Roosevelt, Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson in that large sumes of federal tax dollars are the only way to prime the economic pump and get people back to work. The scenario would be repeated in the 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s, with Republicans adhering to a theory of "trickle-down" economics, and Democrats with a theory of "pump priming" through public work projects paid for either wholly or in part with Federal tax dollars.

At the height of his popularity in 1933, Will Rogers would say, "We feed, clothe, shelter and educate the populace in America, and then they go and turn Republican on us."

Henry Ford would never allow the blue eagle of the N.R.A. to be placed on the walls of Ford Motor Company property, but every member of Local 103 had his blue eagle collar pin on when he got his tools out of pawn shop "hock" and went back to work.

On December 5, 1933, Utah becomes the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution. The noble experiment of Prohibition ends after 18 dry years. The 18th Amendment is repealed.