I have in my hand a newsletter from July 1, 1946 published by the National Association of Real Estate Boards.
It tells how to lobby Congress. It makes very clear that the enemies of the Real Estate Association are political action committees (PACs) run by half a dozen unions including the CIO.
We're looking at an era where unions were becoming the dominant force in controlling Congress especially after having had an enormous power in the executive office during wartime.
The issues of the era were price controls, rent-controls, legislation to control home construction and government support to extend the power of unions.
Fortunately the real estate activists were more effective in the United States than the citizens in Europe or we would have suffered the same 50 years of slow growth or no growth that Europeans became accustomed to. Medical improvements would have been stifled as would most modern technology.
I give thanks to all the small business people and ordinary Americans who stopped the union and government expansion of the post war era in America. They deserve our Christmas blessings.