Bob Cantrick, communist cadre for over 5 decades
![Above, Steve Penner, organizer of Communist League in Canada, speaks at Dec. 5 celebration of political life of Bob Cantrick held in Montreal. “Bob was won to the communist movement in the late 1960s under the impact of the Black rights, women’s liberation, anti-Vietnam War movements, and the Cuban Revolution, which points the way forward toward humanity’s socialist future,” Penner said. Inset, Cantrick working at Marley Cooling Tower in Kansas City, Missouri in 1990.](https://themilitant.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/CLCan_8451-300x181.jpg)
…place the overwhelming majority of its members in industry, to carry out union and political work alongside other workers in auto plants, steel mills, rail yards, coal mines, garment shops,…
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…place the overwhelming majority of its members in industry, to carry out union and political work alongside other workers in auto plants, steel mills, rail yards, coal mines, garment shops,…
DUBLIN, Va. — Some 2,900 United Auto Workers Local 2069 members entered their second week back on strike at Volvo Truck, fighting for higher wages and against bosses’ demands for…
Thousands of members of the United Steelworkers, United Mine Workers, United Auto Workers and Teamsters unions are on picket lines across the U.S. and in Canada, the beginnings of stirrings…
…protected 100%.” There have been many times where workers fought for and won escalator clauses in labor battles. In 1970 some 350,000 United Auto Workers members at General Motors struck…
…and defend themselves. Militant action by hundreds of thousands, including a powerful wave of sit-down strikes 1936-37, organized auto, steel, packinghouses, oil and other basic industries. Class-struggle militants and communist…
…labor struggle today. An Iowa judge issued a restraining order against striking United Auto Workers at John Deere’s plant in Davenport, Illinois, limiting pickets to four. Over 10,000 UAW workers…
…There were 20 to 30 members of United Auto Workers Local 2164 still working after the second shift ended at the Corvette plant in Bowling Green. But, because of the…
HAGERSTOWN, Md. — Hundreds of “big rig” tractor trailer trucks and an estimated 1,000 vehicles overall — cars, pick-ups, motorcycles, and RVs — are crammed into the Speedway, an auto…
…of Connie Mowery in Georgetown, Kentucky. She had worked at the Toyota auto plant there. Mowery pointed to the impact of rising prices. “When child care costs $250 a week…
May 12, 1997 DETROIT — As 1,800 members of United Auto Workers Local 51 head into their third week on strike against the third largest U.S. automaker, talks between the…