GANGSTER CHARGE
Grip On Sydney Area Alleged
SYDNEY, April 13. In a startling charge today, Mr C. A. Morgan, a member of the House of Representatives, said that gangsters had held the municipality of Bankstown (a Sydney suburb) in their grip for many years. He demanded a Royal Commission to investigate the gang, which he blamed for the explosion in the “Torch” newspaper building on Monday night. Charges made by Mr Morgan were:— Bankstown had been terrorised by the gang. He himself had been blackmailed and threatened at the last elections. The gang’s ringleader had received extraordinary immunity, and favoured treatment. The gang’s immunity had emboldened it to indulge in excesses reminiscent of Chicago, Mr Morgan said. “Representatives of certain organisations have been held to ransom and blackmail, and the very channels of justice perverted and polluted,” he said. “Only an open public inquiry, preferably a Royal Commission, will unravel the full ramifications of this gang and expose the corrupt Tammany clique behind it, irrespective of any persons involved,” he said.
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27633, 14 April 1955, Page 13
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