In 1939, a confidential source reportedly gave longtime Minneapolis Labor Review editor Robley Cramer a document proposing a secret committee to help combat unions and promote capitalism, according to a 2007 article in the Labor Review.
“The special emergency Citizens Committee should have as its third major project some special plan to offset the bad publicity the city has received during the past three years,” the document read, according to the article.
This proposed activity “would serve to take the minds of Minneapolis citizens off past troubles and focus all minds throughout the state on some pleasant event occurring in Minneapolis.”
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