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Skoglund, Carl (1884-1960). American Trotskyist and central figure in the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strike along with Farrell Dobbs and Vincent Dunne. Skogland was one of the editors of Alarm, a Scandinavian language from the Scandinavian Propaganda League of the IWW, 1915-1918. Expelled from the CP in 1928 for his Trotskyist beliefs, he became a Teamsters official and founder of the SWP in 1928. Convicted under the Smith act of 1941. He was under threat of deportation in a case, 1949-51. See his article, The Story of Minneapolis from Revolutionary History.
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