Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1956-06-26
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OOHtlHueu rEOm rITSI rage
outmoded bootlegging. snug
Cling. gambling. prostitution,
white slavery and even narcotics.
1t has moved in and taken over
unions across the country, just
as the old-time Capone mob
moved in and took over the
aters. night clubs, restaurants
and other types of businesses.
This labor mob loves the ere
spectability" that comes with
union positions. They are en-
thralled by the huge treasures
and the use of other peoples
money as though it were their
own. They aim for more than
the billions of dollars in the
unions treasures. Their greedy
eyes are also on the easy money
they can make by cutting in on
the unions stock market port
folios, real estate and other in
vestmentS.
The mob is made up of series
of local barons. They deal in
favorS which they call CON
tracts" They throw up picket
lines and they remove picket
lines on short order.
They pressure other union Of
f1cials into making easy wage
contracts, and they brighten
employers into yielding to their
own union friends. For each
favor there is cash-on-the-line
or an obligation which the other
fellow must fulfil on demand at
q later date.
ROthstein Had Tycoon Role
The mob uses the unions for
its businesses. To stay in these
businesses, it must stay in Office.
To stay in Office, it must terrorize
the opposition. For such terror
you need muscle. The mob has
tin abundance.
1t has had the muscle and the
rackets for rs years-but the
skillfully organized thievery of
today dates back to the 1920's
Ito the days when Lepke and
Gurrah and another powerful
but little known fellow by the
name of "Curley" (tougher even
than Lepke) took orders from a
polished financial genius with
a fair for organization-a man
named Arnold Rothstein.
Rothstein was a methodical
business expert. He organized
and rationalized crime as an
efficient and unified industry,
just as the legitimate men of big
business such as the Rockefel-
lers, tricks and Morgans tried
to unity the oil, steel and rail-
road industries.
Rothstein was man of varied
criminal tastes. He bribed the
Chicago White Sox to throw the
1919 World Series to the Gin
cinnati Reds. He controlled
gambling, prostitution and mar
cotics in New York. His fame,
his money and his troops" soon
spread across the Nation. Before
long, he was the underworld's
chief financier.
He bought judges as casually
as you or buy suit or a
dress. He owned hotels, thea
tiers and night clubs. to name
just a few enterprises. Soon the
labor field intrigued this smooth
aS-silk crime tycoon.
Paid Hoods on Both Sides
When strong arm men were
hired by unions or employers in
a strike = although either side
knew 1.-THE muscle men on
both ends, who waited in spe-
cial depots for the word to rush
to the attack. all were in Roth
STEMS pay. For example. back
In 1926 the Communists seized
the International Ladies Gar
ment Workers Union and looted
a million dollars in special funds
from the unions treasury. The
comrades used this money to
finance strike that same year.
The Communists we're the first
to bring big-time hoods into the
labor field. In the fur industry,
they hired a gang of Greek mob
sters known as the BLACK
Gloves" to keep people in line.
In the 1926 strike in the ladies