"A bond grew
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very young guy, barely out of diapers. But along with the struggles that took place in 1934, another tremendous struggle took place in Southern Minnesota—in Austin.
A bond grew between the Teamsters union and the Hormel local. The employers of the United States hated two unions in this area. One was the Hormel local, which wrested the best conditions of any packinghouse union in the country. The other was the Minneapolis Teamsters union.
And what did they do to the Teamsters union in 1934? They did the same things they are attempting to do to [Jim] Guyette and [Ray] Rogers right now. I myself was framed along with 17 other people and was sent to prison because of the fact that we built one of the most effective unions in the country. We organized literally hundreds of thousands of workers. That is a fact that can be read in books.
One of the things I want to say is that there were great sacrifices in the Teamsters' struggle. Two of the people who died were Ness and Belor. You will read about them. Others were 62 men, I believe, who were shot in the back on Black Friday in 1934. I want to tell you right now that I and others, and all of you together, are here to say that Ness and Belor did not die in vain-that this labor movement that we worked so hard to build will not be crushed.
One of the questions that you have got to ask yourselves is this: If the strike had been
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Teamsters and 1 Hormel local.'