Teamster PowerFour books on the 1930s strikes and organizing drive 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 trade union strategy. The growth and consolidation of the Teamsters union in Minneapolis and its class-struggle leadership, and the 11-state over-the-road organizing campaign that brought union power for the first time to many areas of the Midwest. |
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action AFL unions agreement area committee area contract attack battle began Bill Brown bureaucrats called campaign capitalist Carl Skoglund Central Labor Union charter Chicago Citizens Alliance cops Corcoran delegates demands developed Drivers Union efforts elected employers executive board Fargo Farrell Dobbs fight firms force formal gains headquarters hour IBT head International involved issue Jack Maloney job stewards Kansas City labor movement Latimer launched leaders leadership matter meeting membership ment Meyer Lewis Mike Healy Miles Dunne militants Minneapolis Minnesota murder Murphy NCDDC Nebraska negotiations North Dakota Northwest Organizer officials Omaha operations over-the-road party picket line president problem rank-and-file ranks Ray Dunne red-baiting reinstatement ruling class scab settlement signed Sioux City situation Stalinists strike strike action strikebreaking strikers struggle tactics Teamsters Joint Council tion Tobin took trade union Trotskyist trucking bosses trucking industry unemployed union members unionists victory voted wages walkout