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TIL to break major strike waves, Congress enacted the 1947 “Slave-Labor Bill”. Banning many unions’ rights and freedoms, unlike Europe (e.g. solidarity and general strikes). President Truman called it a “dangerous intrusion on free speech”, and vetoed it. But a united Congress overrode his veto

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