Show Inside Labor U. U S. S Meeting On Crime Seen Soon By Victor RIesel cl Suppose you owned one-armed one bandits slot bandits slot machines ma ma- chines and chines-and and were unenthusiastic over the old-fashioned old Idea of paying income taxes on some two billion dollars in nickels dimes and quarters What would you do That problems problem's been recently bothering a string of city detectives detectives detectives de de- and federal investigators tors not to mention a n few priva private private va vate te eyes eyes and and some from down Florida way think they may have the answer Bus Buis Systems You can dump an an awful lot of ol coin into change bags if of you control tram and bus systems strategically placed in cities across the land Theres There's no better better better bet bet- ter camouflage for loose change chang than some municipal bus company company company com com- pany whose drivers trundle in millions of dollars very week to to be counted sorted and hauled down to legitimate accounts accounts accounts ac ac- ac- ac counts in banks For some of the mobs now trying desperately to graduate from the tin horn shakedown and two-bit two torpedo stink-bomb stink throwing era such cash outlets are important The internal internal revenue department depart depart- ment ment-If ment if you'll pardon the mention mention mention men men- tion so soon after March 15 15 has has some one-arm one bandits listed for tax tabs but there are at least twice that number throughout hout th the country each with a take of some 10 to 15 a day The mobs simply have to move that coin coin after after all you cant can't go around paying for your duplex apartment or mink lined car with bags full of nickels and dimes So the shrewd and efficient overlords have adopted the techniques and methods of business That's the way the crime-busting crime New Orleans mayor Delesseps S. S Morrison put it recently Buying Up Now word comes from federal sources in Washington that the mob syndicates have begun buying up transit systems in some five cities All AIl of which worries many labor leaders and scores of mayors mayors- for those who own transit frequently frequently frequently fre fre- can squeeze out of it considerable political influence and prestige in the community And remember the mobs dont don't buy in their own names They use fronts And hardly s o 0 o 0 t h i n g the nerves of other labor chiefs these days are reports that their fields appear suddenly to have become happy hunting grounds again for the lower-echelon lower trigger- trigger happy crowds Only last Saturday Saturday Saturday Satur Satur- day the New York police picked up 10 or 12 men involved in some slight cases of bf mayhem by shooting stabbing and speeding cars Most insiders have de developed developed developed de- de that whimsical attitude which says Oh its it's only the waterfront Let the boys play rough So what if the mobs are arc merging into one very tough crowd Dim View Well We theres there's Police Inspector Kennedy who takes a dim view of blood under a dockside moon If no one removes the inspector his recently enlarged waterfront waterfront waterfront water water- front squad is expected to do some waterside scrubbing Since the port of New York is the open end of the funnel for vital shipments to Europe there are those in Washington who want the piers terror-free terror so sono sono sono no one can interfere with our foreign policy That's why the little-known little as yet senate committee committee committee com com- to investigate man labor ag ment relations is thinking of spending some of its time and money looking into the mobs in New York and New Jersey waterfront unions From many a city has come warning of moving mobsters Word Vord from Detroit revealed just the other day that the C CIO I 0 has special investigators microscopically watching the new wars between gangs which arc are trying to cut into the heavy gambling take in the local mammoth factories Crime Increase The labor people having noticed noticed noticed no no- an in increase crease in violence and crime in cities ranging from Washington D. D C. C itself right across the continent have begun begun begun be be- gun putting the heat on their mayors and state authorities In turn the mayors are needling the federal government And theres there's considerable resentment in Washington where it is charged that the municipal chiefs could handle the thc crime wave th themselves But the mayors mayors may may- ors have retorted that the F FBI B I has refused to show their police chiefs confidential reports on bookies Now the lab labor or men have been told that a new national crime conference will be called in about 90 days And they're hoping the feud be between between between be- be tween the mayors and the justice department ends before union membership begins losing to two two armed armed bandits as heavily as to the one-arm one ty type e. e |