:lol: yeah. It's amazing what you can do when the rest of the industrialized world has been bombed to rubble, and you are the only manufacturer with a populace that hasn't been starved to death/shot at/burned out of their homes/watched their cities and factories turn into ash.
However, you may be interested to learn that you are also a bit off. Union membership peaked in 1945: the expansionary years of the mid 50's through the 1960's were taking place in the beginning of a long union decline. A decline that, not coincidentally, corresponded with the reintroduction of
competition from abroad as other nations rebuilt their industrial bases. Incidentally, the growth from the 50's and 60's mostly was considered such a golden era because it
contrasted with the previous era, which was marked by the growth of unions
and the resulting depression that they helped to prolong.
Ah. This is the magical theory of money, where the price of consumer goods do not include labor cost, and companies just get money from magic money trees.
In realityland, unfortunately, when you artificially increase the price of labor above it's market (supply/demand) value, you increase the price of the good or service being produced without increasing its' quality, meaning that the company that is doing the producing is going to be destroyed by the competition. Just as has happened to the US Auto Industry.