1936 Great Depression MAFIA UNION CRIME Mob AFL CIO TEAMSTERS Labor DEMOCRAT DNC

Description

Examines the involvement of
Radical Communist politicians
accused of using unions for political gains.
THIS
LABOR UNION
RACKET
This sale is for an original
1936
FIRST EDITION
of "
THIS LABOR UNION RACKET
" by Edward Dean Sullivan
author of "Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime" and "Chicago Surrenders."
YOU'LL LOVE THIS BOOK!!
!
This book is a scathing, factual report which cracks open the truth about the criminalizing of labor unions. On the heels of the Great Depression, with industry ready to return to work, racketeers usurped power in the American work force, bringing about a surge in crime and violence.
Unions were originally organized to achieve better hours, higher wages, and more favorable working conditions. However, union leadership was not held accountable for regular accounting of dues. With no real body of law to govern over these unions, gangsters seized control. These racketeers used the unions for their own gains, and organized crime and violence became commonplace.
Honest blue-collar workers found themselves in the grip of racketeers, forced to pay dues in order to work, unable to find work that didn't answer to a union. They were threatened and beaten, forced to pay racketeers who'd abandoned the original promises unions had once offered, racketeers who had no interested in their well-fare.
Coercion and all manner or brutality were employed in the terrorizing and domination of union memberships. Stabbings, shootings, killings, lead union members and employers alike to fear testifying before the authorities.
These gangsters were not the only men in power. This book also examines the involvement of radical communist politicians accused of using unions for political gains. The working class struggles were not aided by communists who instigated strikes simply for the sake of chaos, sending up revolutionary leaders and organizers to provoke the situation.
This book reveals what newspaper headlines had only hinted towards, attacking a problem that had reached the proportions of a national scandal. It is a sharp, hard-hitting, and convincing account which aimed to unite honest union workers and socially responsible industrialists to action.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
:
Edward Dean Sullivan (1888-1938) was a newspaper journalist, author, and screen writer. Sullivan started his journalism career in New Haven, and later wrote for newspapers in New York, Boston and Chicago. He was regarded as an "ace of American newspapermen," but is perhaps most well-known for writing
The People's Enemy
(1935), an American crime film, which came 3 years before his fatal heart-attack. His other written works include,
Benedict Arnold
,
The fabulous Wilson Mizner
, and other expos
é
s like
Rattling the Cup on Chicago Crime
and
Chicago Surrender
s
.
CONDITION OF BOOK
Published in
1936
, this book is in
VERY GOOD CONDITION
for its age, especially to be
85 YEARS OLD
!!!
ALL PAGES ARE PRESENT!!! printed on thick, quality paper, and tightly bound with NO TEARS!!! or destructive markings. Includes a full-color illustrated dust jacket -
photographed with and without the dust jacket, see below
. It measures 6" x 8 1/2" and is complete with
314 pages.
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