GANGSTERS' PLUNDER
HOW IT IS OBTAINED
PAY FOR PROTECTION
VANCOUVER, August 3. The inner workings of the Chicago "Racketeer" Union were bared during the trial of John Rooney, secretary of the Circular Distributors' Union, charged jointly with his sweetheart, Rosalie Risso, 24, and Henry Berry, a union business agent, for the murder of Stanley Gross. Joseph Goldblatt, a partner in six departmental stores> testified that he paid Rooney £200 and £300 on several occasions for protection against win-dow-smashing and stench-bombing directed against various stores. Rooney also demanded that a shilling extra a day each for 300 circular distributors employed by the stores be paid to the union. When Goldblatt declined, so much trouble occurred that he was glad to,pay up. Months later stench-bombing was renewed, and the campaign culminated in the murder of Gross.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 7
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134GANGSTERS' PLUNDER Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 36, 11 August 1933, Page 7
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