On April 5, 1956. the anti-union columnist Victor Riesel was blinded in an acid attack. Riesel claimed this was because he was attacking corrupt unions. However, historians have recently shown.
It's a bit galling that the New Gilded Age has unleashed uncontrolled rich people behavior with levels of naked corruption unseen in decades, with the most corrupt of all of.
On September 14, 1959, President Dwight Eisenhower signed the Landrum-Griffin Act after actively lobbying for its passage. Officially known as the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act, Landrum-Griffin used union.
