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the International Union itself was cautious to the point of having resistance to striking whatsoever. The provisions of the International Constitution that required a two thirds vote of the membership to authorize any strike action and that gave the International President the power to withhold strike benefits if he believed that a local union had struck prematurely, It also divided its members into separate unions along craft or industry lines: ice wagon drivers in one local, produce drivers in another, milk drivers in a third, and so forth.
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the strikers filling the surrounding streets. An eyewitness reported that as the pickets moved to aid their fallen comrades, "They flowed directly into buckshot fire ... And the cops let them have it as they picked up their wounded. Lines of living, solid men fell, broke, wavering." He also said he saw one man "stepping on his own intestines, bright and bursting in the street, and another holding his severed arm in his right hand." By the end of hostilities, two strikers (Henry Ness and John Belor) were dead and sixty-seven wounded.
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justification for further attacks, disarming a number of picketers who wanted to return fire with fire. The union did not make any overt efforts to stop later trucks accompanied by convoys of up to forty police cars that tried to deliver goods, but sent so many cars with pickets to accompany those convoys that the police were never able to shepherd more than a few delivery trucks on any given day.
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The union appealed to the Central Labor Union for a general strike and the governor issued an ultimatum that he would stop all trucks by midnight, August 5, if there was no settlement. Nevertheless, by August 14, there were thousands of trucks operating under military permits. Although the strike was
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The fighting resumed on Tuesday, May 22. The picketers took the offensive and succeeded in driving both police and deputies from the market and the area around the union's headquarters. Of the several hundred deputized "special police", two (C. Arthur Lyman and Peter Erath) were cornered and killed.
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in 1933, was a conservative union averse to strikes. While the union's members were often called on to support other unions' strikes, since their role in transport brought them in contact with workers in many other unionized industries, and had developed strong traditions of solidarity in some areas,
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The strike began on May 16, 1934. The strike was remarkably effective, shutting down most commercial transport in the city with the exception of certain farmers, who were allowed to bring their produce into town, but delivering directly to grocers, rather than to the market area, which the union had
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The union also began preparing for the strike in a number of ways. It rented a large hall that could be used as a strike headquarters, kitchen and infirmary. It organized a women's auxiliary to staff the headquarters. Finally, it entered into discussions with the sympathetic leaders of organizations
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On Friday, July 20, a single yellow truck drove to the central market escorted by fifty armed policemen. The truck made the small delivery successfully, but a vehicle carrying picketers wielding clubs cut off the truck. The police opened fire on the vehicle with shotguns, then turned their guns on
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The police violence sparked a show of support from other unions and a one-day strike of transport workers. Each side stepped back from the confrontation: Chief Johannes and Mayor Bainbridge faced calls for their impeachment, while the union continued to urge its members not to give the police any
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The union thought that it had the employers' agreement to include the "inside workers", the warehouse employees as well as the drivers and loaders. When the employers reneged on that agreement the strike resumed on Tuesday, July 17. Governor Olson again mobilized, but did not deploy, the National
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The Central Labor Council, the Building Trades Council and the Teamsters Joint Council approached Mike Johannes, the Minneapolis Chief of Police, to propose a truce, under which the local would cease picketing for twenty-four hours if the police and the employers ceased trying to move trucks. The
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On August 21, a federal mediator got acceptance of a settlement proposal from A. W. Strong, head of the Citizens Alliance, incorporating the union's major demands. The settlement was ratified, breaking the back of employer resistance to unionization in Minneapolis. In March 1935, International
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strength grew to over 100 members. This gave leadership to the Trotskyists through the various unions they led within the Central Labor Council. As mentioned below, through organizing the first area-wide contract for any union outside of rail, the Trotskyists established locals of their party
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president Daniel Tobin expelled Local 574 from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT). However, in August 1936, Tobin was forced to relent and recharter the local as 544. The leaders of 544 went on to develop the conference bargaining that exists today in the IBT.
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drivers were unloading newsprint at the two major dailies' (newspapers) loading docks. Police followed injured strikers to the strikers headquarters. The strikers refused to let the police into the headquarters, leading to more violence between police and strikers.
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Between July 26 and August 1, the National Guard began issuing operating permits to truck drivers, and engaging in roving patrols, curfews, and security details. On August 1, National Guard troops seized strike headquarters and placed arrested union leaders in a
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The union's leadership had chosen to use different tactics in this strike; it ordered its members to picket without carrying any clubs or weapons of any sort. The police, on the other hand, armed themselves with riot guns which sprayed buckshot over a wide arc.
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The strike changed Minneapolis, which had been an open shop citadel under the control of the Citizens Alliance for years before 1934. In the aftermath of this strike thousands of other workers in other industries organized with the assistance of Local 574.
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employers, the Teamsters and the building trades signed a formal truce agreement. Johannes, however, declared that the police would move trucks once the truce expired, leading the union to announce that it was resuming picketing.
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at the state fairgrounds in Saint Paul. The next day, the headquarters were restored to the union and the leaders released from the stockade, as the National Guard carried out a token raid on the Citizens Alliance headquarters.
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and private guards beat a number of strikers trying to prevent strikebreakers from unloading a truck in that area and waylaid several strikers who had responded to a report that
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The Teamsters also had a number of general locals; Local 574 in Minneapolis, which had no more than 75 members in 1934, was one of them. A number of members, including several
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Police took direct aim at the pickets and fired to kill. Physical safety of the police was at no time endangered. No weapons were in possession of the pickets.
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in Minneapolis offered financial and moral support for the strike, allowing the union to coordinate some of its picketing activities from its headquarters.
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wherever there were Teamster locals, from South Dakota to Iowa to Colorado. The party was later driven out of that local by prosecutions under the
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Johnson, Jack (Winter 2012). "Allies". Newsletter for Members and Friends of the Military Historical Society of Minnesota. XX (1): 1–3.
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and mobilized four thousand National Guardsmen of the 34th Infantry. Following this mobilization, there was no further loss of life.
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In the following "general riot" another roughly two dozen special police, municipal police, and strikers were beaten or wounded.
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Fighting intensified the following Monday, May 21, when the police, augmented by several hundred newly deputized members of the
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The market was to be the scene of the fiercest fighting during the earliest part of the strike. On Saturday, May 19, 1934,
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gravely weakened by martial law and economic pressure, union leaders made it clear that it would continue.
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Other unions, particularly in the building trades, began to strike in sympathy with the Teamsters. The
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Paperback reissue. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2005. (Originally published in 1937.)
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Local 544 remained under socialist leadership until 1941, when eighteen leaders of the union and the
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Open battle between striking teamsters armed with pipes and the police in the streets of Minneapolis
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were sentenced to federal prison. They were the first victims of the anti-radical
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of farmers and the unemployed to obtain their support for the upcoming strike.
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American Workers, American Unions The Twentieth Century (The American Moment)
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75th anniversary of the Minneapolis truck drivers’ strike, by Ron Jorgenson
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On July 26, after the violence which led to the deaths of two protesters,
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1934 labor strike and protest in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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The International Brotherhood of Teamsters, under the leadership of
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Revolutionary teamsters: The Minneapolis truckers’ strikes of 1934
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A public commission, set up later by the governor, reported:
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With a coalition formed by local leaders associated with the
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expulsion, became members of Local 574 in the early 1930s.
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and a trusteeship imposed by Tobin in the early 1940s.
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More importantly, the strike launched the career of
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At this point city government appealed for Governor
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against most of the trucking companies operating in
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Communist League of America
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
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