The Wilmington morning star., 1943-08-31
By WEsTBROOK PEGLER


NEW YORK.-The international situation
seems fairly well in hand so 1 guess 1 can
take my eyes off it long enough to tell you
about the conviction of another of those per-
sonalities of the union shakedown up at New
burgh, N. Y, and what it means to posterity.
This guy is known as Jack Wallace the
name he used in the ring some years ago
and he is a member of the Hague political
mob in Jersey and of the Joe Fay mob in the
union racket. He had another name but let's
not bother about that. He has long police
record and is just gorilla who never did a
lick of work in any of his numerous vacations
from prisons and jails. Edward G.. O'Neill
an assistant attorney general of the State of
New York held over from the Lehman ad-
ministration to finish Up the Investigations and
prosecutions which he started about 18 months
| ago, finally got Wallace on two felony charges
after a jury trial, and. considering his past
performances, he may be sent away for as
long as Is years.
Up to now Wallace has been a very steady
fellow but Is years even 10 is lot of
time out OF life and he may decide to look
for bargain and try to cut down his sentence
by squealing Fay, who is the boss racke-
teer of the mob and under indictment in Man.
haitian and the one they are really trying to
| get. Wallace is O'Neill'S second score in the
Newburgh Investigations, the first one being
local bootlegger and Saturday might sport
around town named Sam Nuzzo who was con-
victed a few months ago and given 10 years
IN the course of the job, O'Neill went deep
into the books and other records of the union
which is local Of the hod carriers and COM
mon laborers, and got information w h i C h
makes brother Fays future look depressing
| Here is the way it was:
They were building a great tunnel to bring
water down from the mountains to New York
and were spending about 300 millions, SO when
it developed that the job was going through
the jurisdiction of the NeWburgh local of the
hodcarriers, the gorillas rallied around in
force James Bove of Yonkers who owns
a local of his own which normally brings him
a very handsome income is also an interna-
tional vice president of the union which has
headquarters in Washington. So Bove cut
himself in and, for purposes Of supervision
sent Wallace over to Newburgh as Nuzzo' S
assistant Bove also is under indictment for
! extortion along with Fay in Manhattan and
some of the evidence turned up around New
burgh probably will be used in their trials
Wallace doesn't even look the part Of a union
eer and about all he did tear up the
suckers money vacation trips to Florida
and other haunts of the criminal scum when
ever the selfless defenders of labors gains
would decide to get away from it all a n d
catch Up on their drinking, gambling and love
life and therefore would call a convention or
jurisdictional conference. One of his little
|
by throwing eggs at Norman Thomas, the
frequent socialist candidate for president of
the USA the time Thomas tested his right of
free speech against Frank Hagues verboten
in Jersey and was badly pushed around by
a large gathering of the party of humanity.
Bove isn't a Jerseyman but Wallace and
Fay are and Fay is very heavy Hague
man And in view of Hague's strength in
Washington the boys undoubtedly will turn
to and try to save Fay when he goes to trial
gorilla over to supervise the graft on the New
burgh section of the tunnel gives you an idea
of the association between Fay and Bove,
international unions of the AFL Fays is the
more rank than the hod carriers, and because
side-by-side in tunnel and excavation work
their affairs often interlace
That makes two down and the next trial
will be the main event but do you want to
know something peculiar? Well, although mil
lions of federal money went down the hole
on this enormous project the federal Depart
ment Of Justice hasn't made a move. The
federal D. of J. hasn't made a move even
though the mob moved in on several colossal
military construction jobs done under Army
supervision, in the same neighborhood and
ran the taxpayers bill way up, during the
very time that the Newburgh investigation and
trial were proceeding.
Why not?
Well, you know, 1abor's gains and all that
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