Minneapolis Teamster strikes of 1934.

"This is the story of the strikes and union organizing drive the men and women of Teamsters Local 574 carried out in Minnesota in 1934, paving the way for the continent-wide rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a fighting social movement. Through hard-fought strike actions, which were in fact organized battles, they made Minneapolis a union town, defeating not only the trucking bosses but strikebreaking efforts of the big-business Citizens Alliance and city, state, and federal governments. They showed in life what workers and their allies on the farms and in the cities can achieve when they're able to count on the leadership they deserve."--BOOK JACKET.

Minneapolis in the early 1930s was anything but a union stronghold. An employers' association known as the Citizens' Alliance kept labour organisations in check, at the same time as it cultivated opposition to radicalism in all forms. This all changed in 1934. The year saw three strikes, violent picket-line confrontations, and tens of thousands of workers protesting in the streets. Bryan D. Palmer tells the riveting story of how a handful of revolutionary Trotskyists, working in the largely non-union trucking sector, led the drive to organise the unorganised, to build one large industrial union. What emerges is a compelling narrative of class struggle, a reminder of what can be accomplished, even in the worst of circumstances, with a principled and far-seeing leadership.

Racontees par un dirigeant central de ces batailles, les greves de 1934 qui ont construit le mouvement des syndicats industriels a Minneapolis et contribue a l'essor du CIO en Amerique du Nord.Le premier d'une serie de quatre livres sur la direction de lutte de classe de ces greves et des campagnes de syndicalisation qui ont transforme le syndicat des Teamsters en un mouvement social de combat dans la plus grande partie du Midwest et montre la voie en avant vers l'action politique ouvriere independante.Introduction de Jack Barnes, deux cahiers photos de 12 pages et d'autres photos, index. En annexe: la liste du premier comite de greve des 100 telle qu'elle parait dans les archives de la section syndicale 574.The 1934 strikes that built the industrial union movement in Minneapolis and helped pave the way for the CIO, recounted by a central leader of that battle. This is the first in a four-volume series on the class-struggle leadership of the strikes and organizing drives that transformed the Teamsters union in much of the Midwest into a fighting social movement and pointed the road toward independent labor political action. Introduction by Jack Barnes, two 12-page photo sections and other photos, index. Appendix: List of Original Strike Committee of 100 as it appeared in Local 574's files.

Las huelgas de 1934 que forjaron el movimiento sindical industrial en Minneapolis y ayudaron a allanar el camino para el ascenso del CIO, relatadas por un dirigente central de esas batallas. El primero en una serie de cuatro tomos sobre el liderazgo de lucha de clases de las huelgas y campañas de sindicalización que transformaron el sindicato de los Teamsters en gran parte del Medio Oeste norteamericano en un movimiento social combativo y señalaron el camino hacia la acción política independiente del movimiento obrero.