The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-02-20

following professional sluggers,
working as guards and undercoVer
mo- IL with long criminal records:
jos wn. who served a prison
sentence in Dannemora; Whitley
Conway, who served in the West
ern Penitentiary in Pennsylvania;
Jim O'Donnell, who served in the
New Jersey State Prison.
Joe Willkie At Longchamps
AT the swanky Longchamps Res
taurant, but since discharged, were
Boston Joe Wilkie, Eddy Gatty, Bat
Masterson and dozen or more OF
Jimmy Kelly's gang from Greenwich
Village. This gang, the members of
which have participated in every
known crime, were given the dirty
job of keeping the restaurant open
during the strike.
La Guardia Responsible
All of these gangsters were put to
work in the hotels under the eyes of
the N.R.A. officials and La Guardia's
police. Direct responsibility for plac-
ing these sluggers and criminals in
the hotels rests squarely on the
shoulders of the La Guardia admin
istration, which has gained consider
able publicity recently through the
fake cleanup campaign on Welfare
Island.
Proof that the police are linked up
closely with the gangster control of
the hotels was brought to light Sat-
urday, Feb. 10, when Central Office
detectives shook down some of the
gangsters in the Hotel Pennsylvania,
finding several men with police rec
ords carrying guns. The detectives
We're said to have told Mr.. Hem
messy, the manager, about their dis
coVery and received the following
answer: We'll, what do you expect
us to hire, lot of cream puffs?"
The detectives, it was stated, did
nothing to remove the gunner from
the hotel.
The names of the Central Office
detectives who made the search are
Lieutenant Pike, Detectives Valen-
tine, Sullivan and Cuneen.
Porter Framed Up
While the detectives were search
ing the hotel, man named Golden
now out OH bail on a homicide
charge in Jersey City, was pro-
tecting' the dear patrons. Golden
killed an iron worker who dared to
interfere with scabs at the Amer
lean Bridge Company job. This
company is subsidiary Of the U. s.
Steel
Thugs Roll in Luxury
The management Of the Hotel
Pennsylvania allowed these thugs to
roll in luxury during their stay in
the establishment. They slept in 81
a day rooms and were given the best
that the management could music!
from its larders.
IN February 10 a lavatocy porter
in the Hotel Pennsylvania vas sus.
pected OF glTD.g informant IN to union
| members and was arrested on a
trumped up charge of carrying con-
cealed weapons. One of Benny Ep-
STEMS guerillas had planted black
jack in the toilet; it disappeared and
was conveniently found on the
porter.
Coen's Gang at BiItmore
In the Hotel Biltmore, one of thS
most luxurious establishments in the
city, Jack Coen's Washington Detec-
tive Agency gang hold forth with
Patsy Bruno and James Walsh, the
latter who had his Sixth Avenue EN-
rioyment Agency license revoked a
few years ago.
Curing the period OF tie strike the
C.WA. officials sent Is men to dc
guard duty in the struck hotels.
The American Hotel Association
through various agencies has sent
80 undercoyermen into the ranks oil
the strikers to disrupt the strike.
Iomorrow's article viii deal with
the agencies which supply the
gangsters and undere0ver men for
the hotels.