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None (February 1950-February 1953) The United Public Workers of America (1946–1952) was an American labor union representing federal, state, county, and local government employees. The union challenged the constitutionality of the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibited federal executive branch employees from engaging in politics. [3]
- May 1946
- 100,000 in 1946, (claimed; at its height)
- 13 Astor Place, New York City, New York
- Abram Flaxer
We never had much of it in the United States. After the New Deal the U.S. had a system of what has been called private socialism, or the private welfare state, and might also be described as union syndicalism. It was erected by unions like the United Auto Workers and companies like General Motors.
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