| Show Inside Labor Crime Perils Unions by New NewBy Method By Victor Rie Riesel cl The wide country-wide crime combine combine combine com bine ha has gone respectable This was easy for me to see Ree up close personally outside the thedoor thedoor thedoor door of Al Capones Capone's gay canopied tropical island white and yellow yellow yel yel- yel- yel low 10 home in Miami's Biscayne Biscayno Bay back in 1947 He had Just died I drove across the causeway knocked on the bi big door and asked in so I could get the color on the death of a successful Cul crime salesman The big fellow at the gate was polite He Hc called another character and together they told me really they were sorry but the press would have hae to get its bulletins from the eminently re respectable respectable respectable re- re doc in attendance on the remains of Scarface who was old and dead at 48 This respectability also was easy to see some ome months month later when after using code words on ona ona ona a big restaurants restaurant's maitre d' d I became the guest of a most genial Denial slot machine czar Frank Franl Costello Gave Lush Meal 1 Frankie gave gae me a lush meal mealand mealand and anti a lusher interview which later resulted in his trying to give to charity It It all very respectable The combine or syndicate and ity t t many partners whoever they awe e have exquisitely appointed appointed appointed ap ap- ap- ap pointed offices prominent at attorneys attorneys attorneys at- at good publicity men and certified accountants who keep close tab on the hotels skyscrapers skyscrapers skyscrapers sky sky- scrapers night spots slot machine machine machine ma ma- chine placements gambling palaces palaces palaces pal pal- aces and ships that see Ree crap games pass An n the night Gang wars are gone gone mostly Reason is that the thc rackets if you can still call them that are delicately cut tip There are 15 or maybe 20 of these territories all 11 the way from mass family bin o games in a Kentucky hills bright spot featuring featuring featuring fea fea- turing the latest in Broadway talent to palaces at t Las Vegas and to the of nonunion materials Allotted Ter Territory ry And each racket is is' allocated as specific territory to different groups The investment Is huge The respectability is good protection Which is why the current mobs dont don't want to be b bothered by spotlights headlines headlineR or undue violence So what's occurred is tha the that the community and the unions h have ve forgotten the gangs are till Mill there there there-in in every big town operating operating operating op op- practically right out in inthe inthe inthe the open Tough crowds still have an an eye for a good thing thing and and both the community and labor are practically inviting them to muscle in on the unions again Like in the old days when a a. labor official would get home after a tough day and find a mobsters mobster's torpedo sitting there therewith therewith therewith with his family the torpedo would get up and leave without saying a word He didn't have to The union leader understood Reuther Attacked Walter alter Reuther was wac almost cut in half by a shotgun blast and and not even the imprisoned suspects have been brought to trial A young dress operator is slashed to pieces in the midst of people and today some weeks later the New York community is yawning In Philadelphia an pug ex-pug who once fought Joe Louis is convicted of second degree murder murder murder mur mur- der in the lethal beating of another another another an an- other worker in a local brewery An occasional sports fan glancing glancing glancing glanc glanc- ing at the news pages will notice notice notice no no- tice that the pug is Gus Dorazio and will say something like Gee I saw that guy fight once Well VeIl witnesses testified at atthe atthe atthe the trial that they saw him fight too Gus the brawl and then holding his victim young Al Blomeyer with one hand beat him with wilh the other said Mid the witnesses Termed l Martyr r The district attorney charged this was an unprovoked attack The local brewery union to which the year old Blomeyer belonged charged that Al was wasa a martyr in an inner union war The prize ex-prize fighter belonged to another outfit which didn't like the brewers said the beer- beer makers makers' union Gus tried to frighten Al AI So Als Al's dead And Anda a year 20 term tenn for Dorazio wont won't help Als Al's widow All over the nation unions are preparing for similar civil war In fact mass battles for control control control con con- of some come plant or other have already been fought to the de degree degree degree de- de gree where you cant can't laugh it off as just a homespun holiday with the boys blowing blowing- steam If an atmosphere of violence is whipped up the up-the the experts in violence will move in for an easy buck since the goons are rapidly becoming convinced the public wont won't mind And well we'll be right back to that ugly condition condition condi condl- tion we started from Copyright 1949 New York Post Corp |
