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In the spring of 1934, a small group of militant union organizers
led Minneapolis truckers on a series of strikes that sought to
break the city's antiunion grip. The striking truckers, in protest
of scab workers, took to the streets of the city's warehouse
district where they faced violent opposition from the police and
members of the Citizen's Alliance, a group representing
Minneapolis's business community. The conflict exploded when police
fired on the unarmed strikers, killing four and injuring countless
others. The events surrounding Bloody Friday shifted the balance of
power between labor and business in Minneapolis and proved to be a
significant victory for the labor movement nationwide, contributing
to the ratification of the landmark National Labor Relations Act.
When first published in 1937, Charles Rumford Walker's American
City was praised as an evenhanded portrayal of the truckers'
strike. Focusing on the personal experiences of the participants,
Walker recounts the interests, motives, and passions on both sides
of the conflict, capturing the heated emotions of those involved.
He offers a vivid account of a period that transformed Minneapolis
and forged the way for workers' rights nationwide.
Are Minneapolis and St. Paul "Twin Cities" in proximity only? How
can two cities, spoken of so often in one breath, differ so greatly
in their histories and characteristics? Claiming the City traces
the contours of St. Paul's "civic identity" to show how personal
identities and political structures of power are fundamentally
informed by the social geography of place. St. Paul proves a
particularly fruitful site for such analysis because it has
developed along a divergent path from that of Minneapolis, its
sister city just across the Mississippi river. While Minneapolis in
the last part of the nineteenth century bore the stamp of
Scandinavians, Protestants, and Republican Yankee progressives, St.
Paul emerged as an Irish, Catholic, Democratic stronghold.
Increasingly overshadowed by the economic might of Minneapolis, out
of necessity St. Paul evolved complex alliances among business,
labor, and the Catholic Church that cut across class and ethnic
lines a culture of compromise that sharply contrasted with
Minneapolis' more strident labor politics.Mary Lethert Wingerd
brings together the voices of citizens and workers and the power
dynamics of civic leaders including James J. Hill and Archbishop
John Ireland. She crafts a portrait of St. Paul remarkable for its
specificity as well as its relevance to broader interpretations of
place-based culture and politics. Wingerd's rich and lively history
of St. Paul is a clear demonstration that place the lived
experience and memory located in a specific spatial context is a
constitutive element of all other aspects of identity."
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