Taft-Harvey was only one of the several obstacles that slowed the growth of organized labor in years after WWII. In the heady days of the New Deal, unions had sped swiftly in the industrials like steel and automobile.
The CIO “operation Dixie,” aimed at unionizing southern textile workers and steel workers, failed miserably in 1948 to overcome lingering fears of radical mixing. Most workers were women working ony part-time in small shops, widely separated firn ibe-another.
Demo administration meanwhile took some steps of its own to forestall an economic instalment to private businesses at fire-sale prices. Secured passage in 1946 of the aEmployment Act, making government policy to production, and purchasing power.
Serviceman Readjustment Act of 1944 ( GI Bill of Rights) : enacted partly out of the fear that employment markets would neber able to abosorb 15 million retuuring veterans at war’s end. Made generotous previsions for sending the former soliders to school.
Majority attended technical and vocational schools, but colleges and universities were crowed as more than 2 mill ex-GI stormed the halls of higher learning.
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