"The principal lesson for labor militants to derive from the Teamster experience is not that, under an adverse relationship of forces, the workers can be overcome, but that, with proper leadership, they can overcome." Farrell DobbsFarrell Dobbs tells the story of the political campaign led by the most class-conscious wing of the unions to organize working-class opposition to the US rulers' imperialist aims in entering World War II. He explains how Washington-aided by the top bureaucracy of the Teamsters, AFL, and then CIO-deployed its political police, the FBI, to try to smash union power and silence antiwar militants.He recounts the 1941 sedition trial staged by the federal government to railroad to prison eighteen leaders of Minneapolis Local 544-CIO and the Socialist Workers Party, as well as the international campaign to win their release. This new edition of the labor classic by Dobbs contains more than 130 photos and illustrations of the unfolding events.