This book, for which I bear sole responsibility as the author, has been written with generous assistance from all who were asked to cooperate in its preparation.
Marvel Scholl, my close and dear companion through- out our adult lives, has drawn freely upon her abundant qualifications to provide help. Having shared the whole
Teamster experience with me, she served as a valuable source through which to supplement my own memory of previously unrecorded happenings and to recount those episodes in keeping with .the spirit of the times. Sharon Lee Finer performed the hard task oftyping final copies of the manuscript, which are so neat and accurate that they should prove a copy setter's delight. She did this, moreover, with prompt attention to each successive chapter as it was turned over to her in draft form, no matter what other things were taxing her time and energy; and her enthusi- asm for the project served as a constant inspiration to me.
Ray Rainbolt, who served as recording secretary of Lo- cal 544 during the critical 1941 events, made available his file containing minutes of meetings held by the union's job stewards. Jack Maloney related a personal experience which gave an example of unscrupulous methods used by the FBI in trying to cook up false testimony against frame- up victims. Harry DeBoer, a militant Teamster leader throughout the 1934-41 period, scanned each chapter of the manuscript to verify its accuracy.