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Passed by an anti-labor Congress over President Truman's veto in 1947, the Act attempted to balance the pro-labor 1935 Wagner Act by adding a list of employer rights and union restrictions. Of chief importance were the following provisions: outlawing the closed shop, restrictions on the union shop including allowing states to outlaw the union shop (called "right-to-work" laws), prohibiting the use of union dues for political activity, and, most significantly for the late 1940s, a requirement that all union officers sign affidavits declaring that they were not members of the Communist party or any organization supporting it.
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