(part 14) The organization of the union movement |
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Farrell Dobbs (1907-1983), a Trotskyist joined the teamsters in the early 1930's in Minneapolis. He was one of the leaders in the 1934 Minneapolis truck driver strike. Just as WWII began, Dobbs was working for the SWP and basically opposed the war which led him to be imprisoned. A few years. At the time of this audio recording, he was the national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP).
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| Event | Speech. The Minneapolis strike of 1934 and the role of the revolutionary party |
| Speaker | Dobbs, Farrell, 1907-1983 |
| Affiliation | Socialist Workers Party |
| File number | ve101co |
| Collection | Voices of Extremism: Conflicting Ideologies in United States Politics in the Decades Following WWII |
| Copyright | Copyright 2013, Illinois State University. All rights reserved. |
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