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Thank you for admitting your ignorance about the history of labor unionism.

re: "organized in an association that still obeyed the law"

That is exactly what actually happened, Teddy Roosevelt started the process of making labor unions legal and it was completed by FDR.

The (unintended?) side effect was to reduce the radicalism of the labor movement by making it a component of the corporate-state system.

Then the postmodern "left" (feminists, etc.) threw the muscular-radical elements of labor unions under the bus in the 1960s, beginning a long decline.

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