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This Day in Minnesota History

January 21, 1934

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During the Minneapolis teamsters' strike, violence erupts between picketers blocking trucks driven by non-unionists and an army hired by the Citizens Alliance, a union of local employers. Thirty Minneapolis policemen and a number of army deputies are hospitalized after the brawl.

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