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In the depths of the Depression, with hungry, desperate man begging for jobs, a Teamsters Local with 175 members decided to take on the Minneapolis business community’s rabid anti-union Association.
Growing rapidly to a militant force of committed workers 5,000 strong, they battled the cops, the hired thugs and the union-busting politicians. Some battles were bloody, all of them were fraught with danger.
Never backing down, IBT Local 574 eventually broke the grip of the business community, making Minneapolis a union town and inspiring union organizing across the Midwest.
Author John Hanson recalls the stories his father told him about those heroic men and women and the fight to establish a democratic union. His is a poignant, personal story that speaks a universal language of courage and justice.
In the depths of the Depression, with hungry, desperate man begging for jobs, a Teamsters Local with 175 members decided to take on the Minneapolis business community’s rabid anti-union Association.
Growing rapidly to a militant force of committed workers 5,000 strong, they battled the cops, the hired thugs and the union-busting politicians. Some battles were bloody, all of them were fraught with danger.
Never backing down, IBT Local 574 eventually broke the grip of the business community, making Minneapolis a union town and inspiring union organizing across the Midwest.
Author John Hanson recalls the stories his father told him about those heroic men and women and the fight to establish a democratic union. His is a poignant, personal story that speaks a universal language of courage and justice.