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The strike changed Minneapolis, which had been an open shop citadel under the control of the Citizens Alliance for years before 1934. In the aftermath of this strike thousands of other workers in other industries organized with the assistance of Local 574.
The strike also gave the [[Communist League of America|Communist League]], later renamed the [[Workers Party of the United States|Workers Party of America]], a strong position in Local 574, and in other Teamster locals within the metropolitan area of Minneapolis. [[Trotskyist]] strength grew to over 100 members. This gave leadership to the Trotskyists through the various unions they led within the Central Labor Council. As mentioned below, through organizing the first area-wide contract for any union outside of rail, the Trotskyists established locals of their party where ever there were Teamster locals, from South Dakota to Iowa to Colorado. The party was later driven out of that local by prosecutions under the [[Smith Act]] and a trusteeship imposed by Tobin in the early 1940s.
More importantly, the strike launched the career of [[Farrell Dobbs]], who played a significant role in the organization of over-the-road drivers throughout the Midwest. Those efforts led in turn to the transformation of the Teamsters from a craft union, made up of locals with a parochial focus on their own craft and locality, into a truly national union.
==See also==
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