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The CIO benefited from the support of the federal government toward unionism. Management could no longer assume that the government would help them in the fight against labor. The Wagner Act of 1935 gave workers the legal right to unionize and protected them from unfair employer tactics, such as firing, espionage, violence, and the use of strikebreakers. The Wagner Act became the keystone of labor's legal protection. Government intervention on side of labor played a major role in helping the CIO rise to prominence.
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