Research Catalog

Title

Teamster politics / Farrell Dobbs.

Author

Dobbs, Farrell.

Publication

New York : Pathfinder, 2007, c1975.

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Additional Authors

Pathfinder Press.

Description

326 p. : ill.; 21 cm.

Summary

Story of how Minneapolis Teamster Local 544, guided by a class-struggle leadership in the 1930s combated FBI frame-ups, collaborated with the unemployed to fight for jobs, deployed the Union Defense Guard and stopped an organizing drive by the fascist Silver Shirts, fought for the unions to adopt a course of independent working-class policial action, and mobilized labor opposition to U.S. imperialism's entry into World War II.

Subject

• International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Local 544
• Farmer-Labor Party (Minn.)
• Labor unions > Political activity > Minnesota
• Labor unions and communism > Minnesota
• Minnesota > Politics and government > 20th century

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

[pt. 1]. The politics of the trade-union movement -- 1. Antilabor role of the FBI -- 2. Roosevelt's aims -- 3. Mentality of a union bureaucrat -- 4. Dynamics of the labor upsurge -- [pt. 2]. Political conflict in Minnesota -- 5. Reformism in action - 6. A Farmer-Laborite in City Hall -- 7. Stalinist flip-flops -- 8. Factionalism gone wild -- 9. Changes in national trends -- [pt. 3]. Ruling-class offensive -- 10. Fink suit -- 11. Silver shirt threat -- 12. Slave labor law -- 13. FLP rift widens -- [pt. 4]. Plight of the jobless -- 14. Organizing the unemployed -- 15. National WPA strike -- 16. Victims made to appear criminals -- 17. The economic crisis is "solved" -- Appendix: How the Teamsters Union organized independent truckers in the 1930s.

ISBN

• 9780873488624
• 0873488628

OCLC

384616891

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library