Wartime strikes: The struggle against the no-strike pledge in the UAW during World War II - Martin Glaberman

Martin Glaberman's examination of American car industry workers wildcat strike wave, despite their own union's no strike pledge, during World War 2.

Submitted by flaneur on January 3, 2012

PDF has been merged and organized.

Taken from http://www.kommunismus.narod.ru

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Entdinglichung

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Entdinglichung on January 3, 2012

can't find the link to the pdf

Ed

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Ed on January 3, 2012

Bump coz the PDF is now attached..

Entdinglichung

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Entdinglichung on January 3, 2012

cheers!

Steven.

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Steven. on January 3, 2012

It's great this is now here, this is an excellent book

syndicalist

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on January 3, 2012

Note the number of Klan type wildcats against African-American workers.

The UAW seems to have had the most consistant numbers of wildcats during the war. It certainly one of the more well organized rank-and-file oppositions to the "no strike pledge." The Trotsskyist Schamanites of the Workers Party (Glaberman's party at the time) and the Trotskyist Cannonites of the Socialist Workers Party were in the forefront of the movement. According to SWP writer (and SWP historian of the CIO) Art Preis: "The opposition to the no-strike pledge, led by the Rank and File Caucus, in which the Trotskyists played a big role, piled up 36% of the votes."

Good book, which I read when it first was published. Good to see it on-line for another generation of worker militants/organizers to read.

Chilli Sauce

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Chilli Sauce on January 3, 2012

Yeah, good call putting this one up Flaneur.

You ever read How to be Idle? It's how I learned what your username means.

flaneur

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by flaneur on January 3, 2012

No but that looks good. It looks like Lafargue's Right To Be Lazy which I still have to read.

Chilli Sauce

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Chilli Sauce on January 3, 2012

It's well good, but needs a good critiquing as well. He loves Lafargue, too.

Chilli Sauce

12 years 2 months ago

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Submitted by Chilli Sauce on January 3, 2012

To be honest, HTBI is probably worth having in the libcom library as well.

Pennoid

11 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by Pennoid on November 10, 2012

Was this published by a wobbly press? Was Glaberman a card-carrying wobbly? I'm saying because there's a wobbly logo on the copyright-page....

Anyone know if Bewick was a wobbly shop?

Hieronymous

11 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by Hieronymous on November 10, 2012

Pennoid

Was this published by a wobbly press? Was Glaberman a card-carrying wobbly? I'm saying because there's a wobbly logo on the copyright-page....

Anyone know if Bewick was a wobbly shop?

No, to Marty being a Wobbly. But Marty was friends with the Perlmans, who helped them put it together at the Black & Red print shop in Detroit, which was a Wobbly shop.

syndicalist

11 years 4 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on November 10, 2012

Was Glaberman a card-carrying wobbly?

During the period of time that these strikes took place, Marty was a member of the then Trot. Workers Party.

Pennoid

11 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Pennoid on December 2, 2012

Ahhh Thanks a lot ya'll!

Entdinglichung

11 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Entdinglichung on December 4, 2012

syndicalist

Was Glaberman a card-carrying wobbly?

During the period of time that these strikes took place, Marty was a member of the then Trot. Workers Party.

the WP people were during that period generally in CIO unions, from which they wanted to develop a "Labor Party" ... their weekly paper 1940-1958 is now completely online and contains many interesting articles about strikes and other struggles (e.g. the sharecroppers movement in Southern Missouri) during the war period: http://marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/laboraction-ny/index.htm

syndicalist

11 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by syndicalist on December 4, 2012

Entdinglichung

syndicalist

Was Glaberman a card-carrying wobbly?

During the period of time that these strikes took place, Marty was a member of the then Trot. Workers Party.

the WP people were during that period generally in CIO unions, from which they wanted to develop a "Labor Party" ... their weekly paper 1940-1958 is now completely online and contains many interesting articles about strikes and other struggles (e.g. the sharecroppers movement in Southern Missouri) during the war period: http://marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/laboraction-ny/index.htm

Thanks for the link. Over the years I've seen really crappy copies of individual issues. I look forward to reading the press and about period strikes. And activities of the WP, about their life as an organization.

One thing that's interesting is their journey through Trotskyism ... and some of their members trajectory towards a marxism beyond Trotskyism or into social democracy.

Entdinglichung

11 years 3 months ago

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Submitted by Entdinglichung on December 4, 2012

the SWP's The Militant is also online for that period: http://marxists.org/history/etol/newspape/themilitant/index.htm ... written in a bit more boring style than LA but also full of information about strikes

UseValueNotExc…

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Submitted by UseValueNotExc… on January 21, 2022

Merged and organized the PDF.

Glad to see this is here.