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No year in American history had as many labor strikes, affecting so many industries, as occurred in 1946.  A newspaper called the ''Evansville Courier'', for example, observed that a coal strike in 1946 was "the most momentous event in the country's peacetime history."
 
No year in American history had as many labor strikes, affecting so many industries, as occurred in 1946.  A newspaper called the ''Evansville Courier'', for example, observed that a coal strike in 1946 was "the most momentous event in the country's peacetime history."
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Historians refer to this as the "Great Strike Wave of 1946," or sometimes late 1945 is also included, because the strikes began almost as soon as World War II ended in August 1945.  In 1946, there was a total of 4,985 strikes, which involved 4.6 million workers for a grand total of 116 million workdays.
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The American public was outraged by this, and punished the Democrats on Election Day in November 1946.  Republicans won by a landslide in the races for Congress.  It was not a presidential election year, so Democrat Harry Truman remained the president.  But Republicans obtained large majorities in the House of Representatives (the "House") and the Senate, and immediately began thinking of ways to curb the power of unions.
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The result was the passage in the House and Senate of the Taft-Hartley Act, in 1947.
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Then Democratic President Harry Truman vetoed the legislation, as a president has the power to do under the Constitution.
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== Not a Democracy ==
 
== Not a Democracy ==
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