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Show JURY CONVICTS IN FURRACKET NEW YORK, Dec. 17 UP-Three UP-Three labor organizations, fiv union officials and a man accused of headitrg a racket directed b) Louis (Lekpe Buchalter and Jaeor (Gurrab) Shaprino. fugitives, wen convicted by a federal court Jurj last night of violating the antitrust law In Xtw York CUy'l IT5.000.000-a-year fur dressing industry. Fifty-three otherdefendanU hayf pleaded guiKy. Two alleged henchmen of Buchalter Buch-alter and Shapiro Joseph Marmel! and William Cohen were acquitted. acquit-ted. The jurors convicted the International Inter-national Fur Workers' union; Pie-tro Pie-tro Lucchi and Morris Kaufman, its former presidents; local 3 of the Fur Floor Workeis' union: local 1 of the same union; Isaac B. Herts-berg. Herts-berg. Morris Reisa and Philip Stl-berstein, Stl-berstein, organizers for the unions and Nat Rosse, general manager ol the Fur Dressers' Factor corporation, corpora-tion, the Buchalter-Shapiro con' trolled group. The government contended lhaxj committee of members of the Factor Fac-tor corporation, the employers group, promised union officials to pay workers higher wages if thf unions cooperated in a plan to fii prices and eliminate competition Jr. the industry. |