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The Trotskyists expanded their role in the US labor movement through their leadership of the 1934 Minneapolis Teamster strike, which broadened into a city-wide general strike.

Important to the strike's victory was the strike daily The Organizer ; although Farrell Dobbs was listed on its masthead as the editor, Shachtman wrote much of it and organized its production.

The Trotskyists ' role in Minneapolis brought them closer to A. J. Muste's American Workers Party, which had played a similar role in the Toledo general strike that same year.