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Although the sit-down strike was a successful tool in organizing unions, it was also a shortlived phenomenon. As the strikes increased across the country, popular resentment grew. Conservative newspapers condemned the strikes, and few supported the workers. After much spirited debate the Senate declared the strikes illegal and a form of trespassing. Gallup polls indicated that an overwhelming majority of people opposed the sit-down strike and that new laws needed to be enacted to curb the power of the unions.
Sources:
Irving Bernstein, Turbulent Years: A History of the American Worker, 1933-1941 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1970);
Foster Rhea Dulles, Labor in America: A History (New York: Crowell, 1949).
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