Teamster Politics (Paperback)

Farrell Dobbs

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Language: English

Published by Pathfinder Press, New York, 2015

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Paperback. Teamster Politics tells the story of how Minneapolis Teamster Local 544, guided by a class struggle leadership in the 1930s organized the unemployed and truck owner-operators into fighting union auxiliaries, deployed a Union Defense Guard to stop a membership drive by fascist Silver Shirts, combated FBI and Justice Department frame-ups, campaigned for workers to break politically from the bosses and organize a labor party based on the unions, and mobilized labor opposition to U.S. imperialism's entry into World War II.Teamster Politics is the third book in author Farrell Dobbs's four-volume series on the Teamsters Union and the labor movement in the 1930s. A worker still in his twenties in the Minneapolis coal yards in 1934, Dobbs became a leader of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strikes and central organizer of an 11-state campaign that brought tens of thousands of over-the-road truckers into the union in the following years.New second edition features includes new special 20-page photo section, many from the Northwest Organizer, the newspaper of Local 544. How Minneapolis Teamsters organised unemployed & truck owner-operators in 1930s, deployed Union Defense Guard against fascist Silver Shirts, combated FBI frame-ups, campaigned for workers to break politically from the bosses & organise a labour party based on the unions, & mobilised labour opposition to US imperialism's entry to WW2. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Title
Teamster Politics (Paperback)
Author
Farrell Dobbs
Publisher
Pathfinder Press, New York
Publication year
2015
Condition
new
Binding
Paperback
Language
English
ISBN 10
1604880457
ISBN 13
9781604880458
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2nd Edition

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