Teamster Bureaucracy (Paperback)

Farrell Dobbs

ISBN 10: 1604881011 / ISBN 13: 9781604881011

Published by Pathfinder Press, New York, 2018

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Paperback. "The principal lesson for labor militants to derive from the Teamster experience is not that, under an adverse relationship of forces, the workers can be overcome, but that, with proper leadership, they can overcome." Farrell DobbsFarrell Dobbs tells the story of the political campaign led by the most class-conscious wing of the unions to organize working-class opposition to the US rulers' imperialist aims in entering World War II. He explains how Washington-aided by the top bureaucracy of the Teamsters, AFL, and then CIO-deployed its political police, the FBI, to try to smash union power and silence antiwar militants.He recounts the 1941 sedition trial staged by the federal government to railroad to prison eighteen leaders of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO and the Socialist Workers Party, as well as the international campaign to win their release. This new edition of the labor classic by Dobbs contains more than 130 photos and illustrations of the unfolding events. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Teamster Bureaucracy (Paperback)
• Publisher: Pathfinder Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1604881011
• ISBN 13: 9781604881011
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

How the class-struggle Teamsters leadership in the Upper Midwest organized to fight union busting, racism, and colonial oppression, as they opposed the mobilization of labor behind U.S. imperialist war aims in World War II. How Washington--backed by top AFL, CIO, and Teamsters officials--acted to gag class-conscious workers. The last of four books on the 1930s strikes, organizing drives, and political campaigns that transformed the Teamsters union in Minnesota and much of the Midwest into a fighting industrial union movement. Written by a leader of the communist movement in the U.S. and organizer of the Teamsters union during the rise of the CIO. Indispensable tools for advancing revolutionary politics, organization, and effective trade unionism.