DAVID J. RIEHLE:

David Riehle is an engineer with the Union Pacific Railroad in St. Paul, Minnesota and is local chairman of Local 650 of the United Transportation Union, which represents train employees of the Union Pacific Railroad. Riehle is a noted labor activist and historian who played a leading role in the P-9 Support Committee for the Hormel strikers in Austin, Minnesota during the 1980s and helped organize anniversaries of the 1934 Minneapolis Truck Drivers' strike in 1994 and 2004. He has given numerous talks and tours on local labor history and also has contributed articles to local labor newspapers such as the St. Paul Union Advocate, Labor Standard, and Labor Advocate Online.

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This collection consists of oral history recordings and transcripts, research notes, news clippings, correspondence, and commentary on the lives of Shaun (Jack) Maloney, 1911-1999, and Carl Skoglund, 1884-1960, two principal figures in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike. David Riehle spent a good part of the 1980s researching the 1934 strike and the lives of these two men, and this collection contains the research materials that he collected. The Maloney materials, which are slightly more voluminous than the Skoglund items, consist of biographical material, oral history recordings and transcripts, 1988-1997 (some interviews done by Riehle), and correspondence between Maloney and Riehle. Also included are histories of the teamsters union (articles and portions of books), articles on the Minneapolis Druck Drivers' Strike of 1934, information on Local 574 and 544, teamster contracts, and files on Farrell Dobbs and Jimmy Hoffa. There are also eight folders of news clippings on teamster issues from 1931 to 1997. These were sent to Riehle by Maloney and contain numerous annotations and commentary by Maloney. Additional Maloney material contains news clippings, articles, reports, and historical sketches concerning the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union (ILWU), particularly in the Seattle area, where Maloney was a labor official after leaving the Twin Cities after World War II.

The Skoglund material includes biographical information, research notes and background articles, collected references to Skoglund in various Swedish socialist and labor newspapers, drafts of speeches on Skoglund by Riehle, correspondence, interview recordings and transcripts, and photographs.

Also included in the collection are political cartoons collected by Maloney and Riehle; biographies of various labor leaders, such as David Beck and Harry Bridges; trainmen's seniority lists of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad Company; and miscellaneous articles and newspaper clippings related to labor history.

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Availability:

The collection is open for research use.

Preferred Citation:

[Indicate the cited item and/or series here]. David Riehle Research Papers. Minnesota Historical Society.

See the Chicago Manual of Style for additional examples.

Accession Information:

Accession number: 15,798

Location of Master Files:

Digital masters of the audiocassettes are maintained on the Society's secure digital collections storage servers and are managed and preserved in accordance with archival best practices.

The original audiocassettes were disposed after the material was digitally reformatted into wav files.

Processing Information:

Processed by: Richard W. Arpi, September 2005

Digitization and encoding by April Rodriguez, September 19, 2023.

Digital audio transferred from the master audiocassettes by the Minnesota Historical Society for preservation purposes (September 2023).

Digitization was made possible by the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund through the vote of Minnesotans on November 4, 2008.

Catalog ID number: 990037138610104294

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Oral history interview transcripts, October 1988:

Related note: Audio interview between Reihle and Maloney from May 1, 1988 can be found in the Minnesota Historical Society's Shaun Maloney papers manuscripts collection.

Location

Internet

Interviews with Shaun Maloney by David Riehle, October 17, 1988. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 17 minutes): WAV (693 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (123 MB).

Digital audio

Interviews with Shaun Maloney by David Riehle, October 18, 1988. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 59 minutes): WAV (908 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (157 MB).

Digital audio

Interviews with Shaun Maloney by David Riehle, October 20, 1988. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 18 minutes): WAV (696 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (123 MB).

Digital audio

Interview with Shaun Maloney by David Riehle, October 21, 1988. 1 master audio file (45 minutes, 41 seconds): WAV (230 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (41.6 MB).

Digital audio

Interviews with Shaun Maloney by David Riehle, October 22, 1988. 1 master audio file (2 hours, 18 minutes): WAV (697 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (125 MB).

Digital audio

Interviews with Shaun Maloney by David Riehle, July 16, 1997. 1 master audio file (1 hour, 28 minutes): WAV (446 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (80.5 MB).

Digital audio

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Location

Internet

Interview with Jessalyn Scott by David Riehle, February 17, 1982. 1 master audio file (57 minutes, 3 seconds): WAV (287 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (59.4 MB).

Scott was a Hennepin County Commissioner for ten years and the wife of Irving G. Scott.

Note: interview ends abruptly.

Digital audio

Interview with Bill and Fannie Curran by David Riehle, April 13, 1982. 1 master audio file (43 minutes, 41 seconds): WAV (220 MB) and 1 user audio file: MP3 (43.1 MB).

The Currans were longtime members of the Socialist Workers Party.

Note: Audio quality becomes poor around the 10 minute mark.

Digital audio

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The manuscript collections of the Minnesota Historical Society also contain the papers of Shaun Maloney.

The University of Washington Library, Special Collections holds materials related to Shaun Maloney's involvement with the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union in the Seattle, Washington area.

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This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the Minnesota Historical Society. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Topics:

Strikes and lockouts -- Minnesota -- Minneapolis.

Teamsters -- North Dakota.

Truck Drivers' Strike, Minneapolis, Minn., 1934.

Persons:

Dobbs, Farrell.

Johnson, Andy, 1899-.

Maloney, Shaun.

Sannes, Erling N.

Skoglund, Carl, 1884-1960.

Organizations:

International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen, and Helpers of America.

Teamsters Local 574 (Minneapolis, Minn.).

Industrial Workers of the World.

International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.

Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railroad.

Types of Documents:

Oral histories (document genres)

Photographs.

Sound recordings.

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