Farrell Dobbs, a central leader of the labor battles and debates recorded here, tells how in the 1930s the leadership of Teamsters Local 544 in Minneapolis fought to lead workers across the Midwest onto an independent working-class political course. This is the third in a four-volume series on the class-struggle leadership of the strikes and organizing drives that transformed the Teamsters union in much of the Midwest into a fighting social movement and pointed the road toward independent labor political action. Also available in Spanish (ISBN: 9781604880441). “Exceptionally well written, impressively organized and presented...very highly recommended for both community and academic library.” —Midwest Book Review “Students of Minnesota politics and American labor will have to consult Dobb’s work, not as final word or authority, but rather as a valuable source document.” —Minnesota History Farrell Dobbs (1907–1983) was national secretary of the Socialist Workers Party from 1953 to 1972 and the SWP presidential candidate four times. In 1934 he emerged from the ranks of the Teamsters as a central leader of battles that transformed the union movement during the Great Depression. He was a leader of the strikes that year that made Minneapolis a union town and later of the organizing drives that brought a quarter million over-the-road truck drivers into the Teamsters union across the Midwest and Mid-South. During World War II, Dobbs and other central SWP leaders organizing labor opposition to Washington’s war aims were railroaded to federal prison by the US imperialist rulers. He is the author of the series on the Teamster battles of the 1930s (four-volumes, 1972–77) and Revolutionary Continuity: Marxist Leadership in the U.S. (two volumes, 1980–83). Other works include: Tribunes of the People and the Trade Unions (2019, coauthor) 50 Years of Covert Operations in the US: Washington's Political Police and the American Working Class (2014, coauthor) Selected Articles on the Labor Movement (1983) Counter-Mobilization: A Strategy to Fight Racist and Fascist Attacks (1976) The Structure and Organizational Principles of the Socialist Workers Party (1971)