The Landrum-Griffin Act, officially titled the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (1959), created a “bill of rights” for UNION members, including freedom of speech, secret elections, and fiduciary reporting requirements for union officials. Landrum-Griffin was an outgrowth of the McClellan Corruption Committee investigations of organized-crime involvement in a few U.S. labor organizations. The committee found evidence of collusion between employers and union officials, diversion and misuse of union funds, and use of violence by labor leaders against others within the union movement. The Landrum-Griffin Act was the first significant legislation directed toward internal union activities, limiting union officials’ use of funds and requiring disclosure of union spending. At the time, some union leaders overpowered and intimidated anyone within the organization who questioned their decisions. The act also restricted unions’ use of secondary boycotting (union BOYCOTTS of companies that did not use union labor) and picketing at companies where another union was already representing workers. Landrum-Griffin was opposed by most union groups for what was perceived as strengthening antilabor provisions in the TAFT-HARTLEY ACT. In particular, Landrum-Griffin authorized states to handle all cases that were outside the province of the NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD.