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Letters to the Editor, The New Militant, Vol. I No. 23, 25 May 1935, p. 3.
Transcribed & marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopaedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).
Editor, New Militant:
The New Militant recently had a cartoon showing the Citizens Alliance of Minneapolis taking its pet skunk, Dan Tobin, for an airing. Naturally, the cartoonist showed the workers of the city drawing back in disgust. But not everybody has shrunk from the odor given out by Tobin. The Communist Party has launched new attacks on the leaders of Local 574, insinuating that Tobin is justified in kicking that glorious local out of the Teamsters Brotherhood. The cartoonist should show a little Stalinist rat snuggling up close to Skunk Tobin and showing real appreciation of the poisonous odor which all the reactionary cabal hopes will stifle the genuinely revolutionary elements in the Minneapolis labor movement. Rats of course do not go about on leashes, but sometimes they are trained by masters who sit far away when they do their little tricks.
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