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I find the strikes leading up to it interesting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/US_strike_wave_of_1945%E2%80...

> Throughout the Second World War, the National War Labor Board gave trade unions the responsibility for maintaining labor discipline in exchange for closed membership. This led to acquiescence on the part of labor leaders to businesses and various wildcat strikes on the part of the workers.




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