Research Catalog

Title

Teamster bureaucracy / Farrell Dobbs.

Author

Dobbs, Farrell.

Publication

New York : Pathfinder, c1977

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Additional Authors

Pathfinder Press.

Description

411 p. : ill., ports.; 22 cm.

Summary

Teamster Bureaucracy tells the story of how the leadership of Minneapolis Teamsters Local 544 organized to oppose Washington's entry into World War II and how the rulers-backed by the top officialdom of the AFL, CIO, and Teamsters-accelerated union-busting and government efforts to gag class-struggle-minded workers. It recounts the infamous 1941 federal sedition trial that culminated in the imprisonment of eighteen leaders of Local 544 and the Socialist Workers Party, as well as the international campaign to win their release.

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]. Trade union campaign against war -- 1. 'Let the people vote on war' -- 2. Stalin-Hitler pact -- 3. A disagreement over tactics -- [pt. 2]. Imperialist war and trade union democracy -- 4. A moral victory -- 5. Internal union developments -- 6. Friction with Tobin -- 7. FBI disruption -- 8. Local 544 goes CIO -- [pt. 3]. Union-busting conspiracy -- 9. IBT invasion -- 10. Roosevelt backs Tobin -- 11. Governmental hatchet job -- [pt. 4]. Anatomy of a frame-up -- 12. 'Sedition' indictment -- 13. Prosecutor's tricks -- 14. Coached witnesses -- 15. 'If that is treason' -- 6. A confused jury -- 17. Another kangaroo trial -- 18. Pardon campaign for the eighteen -- Afterword.

ISBN

• 0873488636
• 9780873488631

OCLC

384616882

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library