The Wilmington morning star., 1946-07-26

robbing his own local of the hodcarriers' and
common laborers', unlo1 in Westchester coun-
ty, thanks, in this case, to Ebert T. Gallagher
during his term as district attorney OF West
chester county. Bove already has matriculat-
ed at Sing Sing to start that course.
In addition, William J McGeory and James
Parkinson, both of Yonkers, and democratic
politicians both, are under sentence Of from
three to six years for attempting to shake
down contractors but have appealed. Their
lawyer, asking clemency, said they were
victims of Fay, and Vincent O'Connor, of Mr..
Hogan's stat, who convicted them, again with
no help from the AT. of L., agreed that
they were. at least, Fay's partners in crime.
This, too. was a New York case and one
of the fine technicalities advanced in the ap-
peal argues that even if they were guilty,
they snould have been tried in Westchester,
not Manhattan.
Two other and lesser members of the West
chester mob, Felix Lozzi, "a years old, and
Anthony Petrillo, SO, pleaded guilty in the
Westchesfer cases.
There are two big parent unions involved
here, the international Union of Operating En-
gineers and the international Hodcarriers'
Building and Common Laborers' Union Of
North America. Both have headquarters in
Washington, both have been fronts for
rackets, ~thuggery and wartime and pre-war
graft from workers and contractors, and both
have enjoyed strong political protection from
the new deal in New York, Chicago, New
Jersey and Washington.
Fay is fourth vice-presieent OF the operat-
ing engineers. Bove is a vice-president of the
hodcarriers and was secretary = treasurer OF
Local so in Yonkers. McGeory, 81 years old,
was president of the Building and Construction
Trades Council of Westchester county, en-
bracing IS locals Of the AT. of l.. Parkinson,
age "a, was business agent of a local OF the
operating engineers. McGeory has served as
alderman and superintendent Of parks in
Yonkers and vice-chairman of the West
chester Democratic County Committee. Both
he and Parkinson were draft board officials
for a time.
Another professional unioneer of the AT.
of L., an old friend and neighbor of McGeory
and Parkinson. discussing their case recently,
said: God, l don't know what gets into them.
They start as good union men and seem to
60 crazy over power and money"
The graft in these cases came from con-
tractors, most of whom, as I have reported,
were just as corrupt as the gangsters who
shook them down and from the workers and
the union treasures. The crooked contractors
got back the shake-down money by adding it
to the bill and passing on the cost to the
taxpayers and it was common practice
among such vermin 20 carry on with Fay
as their social and moral equal, as no doubt
he was. Many of them lied on examination
so that they could not be used as witnesses
in the trial. 1t might be thought that they
we're afraid Fay, Bove and the other crooks
would pull strikes on their big jobs If they
told the truth. A more likely conclusion on
the basis of their pleasant relations with the
racketeers was that they were birds Of a
feather who didn't object to graft as long as
they could charge it to the United States
Treasury. In the Westcheseer cases, Bove and
the subordinate defendants robbed the union
itself.
Fay had great political power in the Frank
Hague organization in New Jersey and helped
make one United States senator and one fed
eral judge He is a brutal, drunken braWler,
always associated with underworld charac-
tiers who. nevertheless, vas socially and pro-
fessionally acknowledged conspicuously in
public by William Green long after he had
slugged David Dubinsky at a national con-
vention Of the A. F. Of L.. in New Orleans
because nubinsky had offered a resolution
against -acketeers which was personally Of
fensive to Joe. At one time, after neat began
to scorch him, Fay trlei to reach The courts
with assurances of appropriate reward but,
this time, at least, failel.
A few years ago, in Syracuse, he slugged
H. Orviile Warner, the local boss of the oper-
ating engineers. himself a brawler, and kicked
Warmers jaw around onto the back of his
neck. Indicted for that, he went loose when
Warner failed to show up as the prosecuting
witness and Warner soon reappeared in his
old job in Rochester and presently acquired
a fishing camp and resort. Thereafter, War
ner's subjects were pulled off an urgent war
construction job in the first case of "epi-
demic' hangover which could be cured only
by a raise in pay. A few months ago, War
ner's wife and a policeman who said he saw
the incioent charged Warner with deliberately
driving his car at her car and forcing her
off the road. He was convicted of reckless
driving, given his option of a $40 fine or 20
days and appealed.
William E.. Maloney, the president of the
engineers, a Chicago unloneer and politician,
owns or did own a winter house on La Gorce
drive in Miami Beach, a farm near Chicago
and a stable of eleven roce horses including
one Reign Count horse. Fay also bought a
Florida winter place at Sarasota. The operat-
ing engineers and the hodcarriers' and com
mon laborers' union usually work in close
harmony because their functions in building
construction and excavation are simultaneous
and their jurisdiction Is contiguous.
On May 20, 1881, Arthur M. Huddell. then
president of the operating engineers, was shot
at in a restaurant in Washington. The bullet
struck a pocket notebook over his heart. He
was not wounded but died 10 days later, ap-
parently of shock.
On Feb. "a, 1888, De1nis Bruce Ziegler, a
rank and file member If Local 500, Chicago,
was shot dead near ms home. He had been
leading & rebellion against persecution in the