Farrell Dobbs Pathfinder, 1972, 2004, 228 pages

    "To the men and women who gave me unshakable confidence in the working class, the rank and file of General Drivers Local 574."
Farrell Dobbs

    This is the story
    of the strikes and union organizing drive the men and women of Teamsters Local 574 carried out in Minnesota in 1934, paving the way for the continent-wide rise of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) as a fighting social movement.  Through hard-fought strike actions, which were in fact organized battles, they made Minneapolis a union town, defeating not only the trucking bosses but strikebreaking efforts of the big-business Citizens Alliance and city, state, and federal governments.  They showed in life what workers and their allies on the farms and in the cities can achieve when they're able to count on the leadership they deserve.

    Farrell Dobbs, a coal-yard worker then still in his twenties, was one of the central leaders of the 1934 strikes.  At the time he wrote this account almost forty years later, Dobbs was national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party.  With an introduction by Jack Barnes.