RADICALS: Mice Apprehended

The U.S. Government, out to slay a Fascist dragon, still had enough time to pop at field mice. In a Minneapolis courtroom the Department of Justice triumphantly snagged a nestful of mice: 18 Trotskyites convicted of advocating the overthrow of the Government. Only hope for the mice was in an appeal. They vowed they would take their squeaking case all the way to the Supreme Court.

For a long time the Trotskyite mice* dominated the cat-runs of Minnesota labor. Their tiny but concentrated strength lay in the Minneapolis teamsters' Local 544, whose chief...

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