Mises Daily
Author:
Robert Higgs
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wielding the new powers granted them by the National Labor Relations Act, labor unions carried out their most rapid surge of organizing. Membership rose from 3.8 of nonagricultural employment (US Bureau of the Census 1975, pp. 177–178). As union power increased, unions became a major force in the New Deal coalition, and the part of a would-be dictator “to subvert democratic institutions” by “importing European totalitarianism into the United States” (Leuchtenburg 1963, pp. 277 & 279).