Then and Now Part Two
1934 Strikes -- Class-Struggle Leadership Made the Difference

http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/1051/then-and-now.html
Date Written:  2014-09-05
Publisher:  Workers Vangurd
Year Published:  2014
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX16994

In 1934, four years into the Great Depression, the victory of three citywide strikes -- centered on the Teamsters in Minneapolis, auto parts workers in Toledo and longshoremen in San Francisco -- would open the door to a mass upsurge of working-class struggle and the organization of powerful industrial unions.