Books

Books and Articles About the Strike Compiled by the Minnesota Historical Society (MHS call numbers are included)

American City: A Rank-and-File History, by Charles R. Walker.
New York: Arno, 1971 [reprint of original 1937 edition].
MHS call number: F613.M3 W3 1937a.

Behind the 544 Suit: The Truth About the Fink Suit Against the Minneapolis General Drivers Union, forward by Miles Dunne.
Minneapolis, Minn.: Northwest Organizer, 1940.
MHS call number: HD8085.M6 N6.

"Father Haas and the Minneapolis Truckers' Strike of 1934," by Thomas E. Blantz.
In Minnesota History, vol. 42, no. 1 (spring 1970): pp. 5-15.
MHS call number: Reading Room F601.5 .M66 v.42:1.

Floyd B. Olson and the Teamster Strikes of 1934, by Dennis Harrington.
Typescript, 1977.
MHS call number: HD5325.T7 1934 .M643.

"The Great Minneapolis Strikes," by James P. Cannon.
In Fourth International, vol. 5, no. 5 (May 1944): pp. 140-148.
MHS call number: HD5325.T7 1934 .M635 1944.

"Keeping Minneapolis an Open-Shop Town: The Citizens' Alliance in the 1930s," by Lois Quam and Peter J. Rachleff.
In Minnesota History, vol. 50, no. 3 (fall 1986): pp. 105-117.
MHS call number: Reading Room F601.5 .M66 v.50:3.

The Labor Wars: From the Molly Maguires to the Sitdowns, by Sidney Lens.
Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1974.
MHS call number: HD5324 .L38 1974.

Mass Strike in Minneapolis, 1934. 
Oral history interviews with strikers.
In Red Buffalo (Buffalo, N.Y.: 2 & 3, [1971?]).
MHS call number: D16.1 .O72 1971.

A Union Against Unions: The Minneapolis Citizens Alliance and Its Fight Against Organized Labor, 1903-1947, by William Millikan.
St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society Press, 2001.
MHS call number: Reading Room HD6519.M6 M55 2001.

Additional Titles

Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy, by Thomas E. Valelly. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Labor’s Giant Step: Twenty Years of the CIO, by Art Preis. New York, NY: Pathfinder Press, 1972.

The Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934, by Phillip Korth. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1995.

Teamster Rebellion, by Farrell Dobbs. New York, NY: Pathfinder Press, 1972.

Community of Suffering & Struggle: Women, Men, and the Labor Movement in Minneapolis, 1915-1945, by Elizabeth Faue. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Harvest, by Meridel LaSuer. Cambridge, MA: West End Press, 1977.

Also, see Labor in the 1930’s Bibliography, an annotated bibliography of books which cover labor history in the New Deal Era, 1929-1948.