RESTAURANT RACKET IN NEW YORK
14 MEN TO BE TRIED. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) (Rec. 7.10 p.m.) New York, October 20. Fourteen men, including six Labour leaders, were indicted to-day by an extraordinary grand jury as a result of 14 months’ investigation of the restaurant racket. It is alleged that they are netting 2,000,000 dollars a year, and th: '. operating under the name of the Metropolitan Restaurant and Cafeteria Association, the racketeers charged 300 restaurants and cabarets, including Jack Dempsey’s, an initiation fee of 200 dollars and weekly dues of five dollars under a threat of “labour trouble.”
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Southland Times, Issue 23027, 22 October 1936, Page 5
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98RESTAURANT RACKET IN NEW YORK Southland Times, Issue 23027, 22 October 1936, Page 5
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