Teamster Politics

Description:

Story of how Minneapolis Teamster Local 544, guided by a class-struggle leadership in the 1930s combated FBI frame-ups, collaborated with the unemployed to fight for jobs, deployed the Union Defense Guard and stopped an organizing drive by the fascist Silver Shirts, fought for the unions to adopt a course of independent working-class policial action, and mobilized labor opposition to U.S. imperialism's entry into World War II.

subjects: Labor unions,  Political activity,  Labor unions and communism,  Politics and government,  International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America. Minneapolis. Local 544,  Farmer-Labor Party (Minn.)