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A welcome and recommended addition,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teamster Rebellion (Paperback)
Farrell Dobbs was a coal-yard worker and one of the central leaders of the 1934 strikes when in his twenties. Some forty years later Dobbs was the national secretory of the Socialist Workers Party and wrote down an account of his experiences working in the coal yards and becoming involved in unionist movement organizing the drive to establish Teamsters Local 574 and the rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as an effective nation-wide instrument to better working conditions for men and women like himself. Teamster Rebellion is Dobbs account of the hard-fought strike actions which were often all out battles with law enforcement and hired thugs operating as strike breakers in the employ of the exploitative company owners and such big-business fronts as Citizen Alliance. Teamster Rebellion is a welcome and recommended addition to academic and community library American Labor History collections.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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a man, a union, a class, a town transformed Updated Edition,
By Tony Thomas (SUNNY ISLES BEACH, FL USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teamster Rebellion (Paperback)
Pathfinder has just (June 2 2004) Come out with a new updated edition. Perhaps the most interesting feature is a discussion between Jack Barnes and Mexican and Mexican American coal miners from Utah fighting to organize their mine about how this book speaks to the needs of workers in the 20th Century. There are more pictures, and expanded notes.Farrell Dobbs was transformed by the struggles in this book. He had wanted to be a judge. He had been a forman. He had tried to run a small business. The depression threw him into the coal yards of Minneapolis. He became one of the workers who helped unionize the coal yards, then unionize the truckers, then turn the Teamsters into an industrial union, because they had the opportunity to meet up with the revolutionary Marxist ideas supplied by communists like the Dunne Brothers. This is the story not of Dobbs alone, but of the great Minneapolis Strikes of 1934 that led the way for the CIO. This is the story of how workers can bust through the conservatism, the apathy, the company loving bureaucracy in their unions, to demonstrate their power. This story is told by a man who was there, as a coal yard worker, a truck driver, the union's organizer. We need to know how to do this now! While Amazon may say this book is not available from time to time, it is always available on the Pathfinder Amazon partner Z store that you can reach by clicking on new and used at the top of this page.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Workers can win,
By Carl Weinberg (Dahlonega, GA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Teamster Rebellion (Paperback)
To any working person who wants to know how to fight the bosses and win, you have to read this book. The author, Farrell Dobbs, was born into a working-class family in Missouri in 1907, worked his way into a management job, started his own business, and hoped to go to law school and become a judge. But his plans were cut short by the great depression of the 1930s. In 1933, he found himself working in a Minneapolis coal yard and met coworkers who asked him to join an effort to organize the workers into a branch of the Teamsters union. The rest is history. In 1934, Dobbs played a central role as the members of Teamsters Local 574 carried out a series of three dramatic strikes that succeeded in making Minneapolis a union town. To do this, they had to battle the boss-led Citizens Alliance, the police, the top Teamster bureaucrats, as well as a "friend of labor" Governor, who talked out of both sides of his mouth. This book gives a blow-by-blow account of all of this, and is a real handbook for how to conduct a strike effectively. Key to their victory was a union leadership that included members of the Communist League of America, a revolutionary socialist group, which later became the Socialist Workers Party, which Dobbs joined and led on a national level for decades. If you like this book, you'll also want to read the three other books in Dobbs' Teamster series, Teamster Power, Teamster Politics and Teamster Bureaucracy.
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