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Industrial Organizer

Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO


The Industrial Organizer, the continuation of the Northwest Organizer which ended in July of 1941, was the voice of the most militant section of the U.S. working class in the late 1941. [The Industrial Organizer published through May of 1942 when it ceased publication. We have only 9 issues available but we will add the full run of the paper by the end of 2012.] The Trotskyist lead Local 544-CIO was under attack by both Daniel Tobin, the boss of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and the FDR government who saw Local 544-CIO as a threat to labor peace they were trying to impose on the northern Central States. Much of the paper is is devoted to defending the Local from these attacks are well as reports on other militant actions by the working class during this period.


Special Note of thanks to the following individuals and institutions that made copies of the Industrial Organizer available and help scan and process them for this archive: Dr. Marty Goodman and Robin Palmer of the The Riazanov Project and Rod Holt and David Walters from the Holt Labor Library.

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These files are slightly over 6mb in size. While some are of excellent copy due to the original hard copy provided by the Holt Labor Library, most are from reprints or microfilm where the person doing the scanning did not unbind the bound volumes. This in effect causes a loss of one to several words where the papar is attached to the binding. We are attempting to find more original hard copy so as to correct the poor quality of these scans. These issues of the The Industrial Worker are reduced in size from larger 28mb files, slightly better quality, which are available upon request. Write to martygoodman[At]sbcglobal.net from the Riazanov Library Project.

Volume 1, No. 1, July 17, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 2, July 24, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 3, July 31, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 4, August 7, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 5, August 14, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 6, August 21, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 7, August 28, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 8, September 4, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 9, September 11, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


September 18, 1941 Volume 1, No. 10,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 11, September 25, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


October 2, 1941 Volume 1, No. 12,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 13, October 9, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 14, October 16, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 15, October 23, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


November 1, 1941 Volume 1, No. 16,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


November 8, 1941 Volume 1, No. 17,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


November 15, 1941 Volume 1, No. 18,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


November 22, 1941 Volume 1, No. 19,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


November 29, 1941 Volume 1, No. 20,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


December 6, 1941 Volume 1, No. 21,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


December 13, 1941 Volume 1, No. 22,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 22(A), February 3, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne


Volume 1, No. 22(B), May163, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne

Volume 1, No. 23, December 20, 1941,

Industrial Organizer
Official Organ of the Motor Transport and Allied Workers Industrial Union Local 544-CIO, Minneapolis, Minn.

Business Manager: Daniel Burke
Editor: Miles B. Dunne