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Event	Speech. T he 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.

Event	(part 14) The organization of the union movement
Background	A series of speeches about the 1934 Minneapolis strike and the role of the revolutionary party. Deep unemployment, low wages and the fact that the union was not recognized by many companies lead to a hostile environment. On May 16, 1934 the strike began but violence erupted a few later to the incident known as Bloody Friday. The Minneapolis was a pivotal point in union rights across the Midwest.
Speaker	Dobbs, Farrell, 1907-1983
Affiliation	Socialist Workers Party
Biography	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).
Country	United States
Transcript	http://tempest.lib.ilstu.edu/voe/pdf/ve101n.pdf
Run time	0:19:17
Subject	American Bar Association. Committee on Development of the Law Under National Labor Relations Act American Federation of Labor Anti-globalization movement Civil rights demonstration Collective bargaining--Transportation Communism--United States Farmer Labor Party Labor movement--United States--History--20th century Labor union democracy National socialism and labor Radicalism Socialism Social conflict Syndicalism Truck Drivers' Strike, Minneapolis, Minn., 1934 Unemployment Working class--United States
Subject [name]	Belor, John Brown, Bill Dunne, Vincent Green, William, 1870-1952 Hall, Cliff Ness, Henry O'Brien, John T.,'Sandy' Olson, Floyd B., 1891-1936 Pelley, William Dudley, 1890-1965 Skoglund, Carl, 1884-1960 Tobin, Daniel Joseph, 1875-1955 Wagner, Robert F. (Robert Ferdinand), 1877-1953
Media type	MPEG Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Original physical format	Reel-to-Reel Tapes
File number	ve101n
Repository	Illinois State University, Milner Library
Collection	Voices of Extremism: Conflicting Ideologies in United States Politics in the Decades Following WWII
Image permission	This work is in the public domain in the United States
Copyright	Copyright 2013, Illinois State University. All rights reserved.

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