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  After 1890, courts used antitrust law to rule unions illegally
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  A bomb explodes at the headquarters of the stridently anti-union Los Angeles Times, killing twenty people. Eventually two men connected with the Iron Workers Union, which has been implicated in other bombings, will confess to dynamiting the Times.
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  The National Labor Relations Act authorizes unions to act as workers’ “exclusive bargaining representatives.