Harry DeBoer

Harry DeBoer (1903–1992) was an American labor militant and Trotskyist. He was born in Crookston, Minnesota,[1] and worked in the Minneapolis coal yards. DeBoer became one of the leaders of the Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 – a particularly well-organized action that resulted in the shutting down of most commercial transport in the city.[2] A leading member of the Socialist Workers Party, DeBoer was imprisoned together with many other SWP leaders under the Smith Act for opposing the US involvement in World War II.[3] In 1987, DeBoer authored the essay "How to Win Strikes: Lessons from the 1934 Minneapolis Truckers Strike" (also translated into Danish and German), in which he sought to disseminate the tactics used in the Minneapolis strike for the benefit of a new generation of socialists.

Leon Trotsky with Harry De Boer (left) and James H. Bartlett and their spouses in Mexico in 1940

In his later years, DeBoer was a member of the Committee for a Workers' International before the 1992 split.

Notes
  1. "Wellred USA Online Store". wellredusa.com/pamphlets.asp. Archived from the original on 2007-08-22.
  2. Valelly, Richard M. (1989). "New Deal Labor Policy and the Minneapolis Strikes of 1934". Radicalism in the States: The Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party and the American Political Economy. University of Chicago Press. pp. 103–118. ISBN 9780226845357.
  3. Haverty-Stacke, Donna T. (2016). ""If That Is Treason, You Can Make the Most of It": November 18–December 8, 1941". Trotskyists on Trial: Free Speech and Political Persecution Since the Age of FDR. NYU Press. pp. 109–138. ISBN 9781479849628.


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