THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1957.
Capone wasn't so sinister
TH
AS THE NEW-STYLE
GANGSTERS OF 1957
DON IDDON'S DIARY
Now York.
E gangsters are back in force here--and prohibition cannot be blamed this time. They are not peddling illicit liquor-because bars in most States are open from nino in the morning until two the following morning-but controlling million-dollar rackets involving dope, girls, and extortion, blackmall, and, most vital of all, labour unions.
I told you a year ago about Jolmny. Dio, the Lothario who undor indict- ment for the blinding of labour columnist, Victor Riesel. But it looks.now an if Dlo, a convicted thug, is a small cog compared with the big wheels of the new underworld.
The FBI. tells me that the new-style mobsters are 101 some ways more formidable than the old, such as Capone, Legs Diamond. John Dillinger, and Dutch Schultz.
Strike threats
THE F.B.I. does
not fear
slaughter like the St Valen-
E
tine's Day massacre of 1920, which folled even Chicago, but something more sinister a strangle- gradually tightening hold over sections of the labour
novement,
CAPONE
DIO
Now boy
Old Bay
have gaol records. They have made their millions quite simply out of union dues. The gangsters make their money by threatening employers
stevedore,, for example, with strikes unless huge sume earning, say, $100 a week hna are paid in protection, and they to hand over five dollars out of 1errorise the unions with mob his pay envelope every week
violence.
Commitice NOW meeting in Washington.
On his last appearance before the committee the dapper Dlo refused to answer, on grounds of self-incrimination, 140 ques- Uons put to him. He would not even say whether he was on American citizen or not be- cause it might be ocif- incriminating. His Ted Hij adopted
tactics.
bodyguard
the saine
The big question that the relentless Senator McClellan, chairman of the probe, and boyish Robert Kennedy, the committee's lawyer, are asking is: "What connection has the labour Czar Jimmy Hoffa with Dlo ant other gangsters?"
Definitely there is a strong connection, ns wire recordings
open
James Holla's amblilon is to
make himself the most powerful union leader in the world, amal.. all forms of trans- Ranting
to the mob. With hundreds of of blasphemy-Uttered converan- Thousands of men cach con- tions between Dlo and his The film Waterfront, starring tributing live dollars, the henchmen revealed in Merlon Brando, was an accurate treasure in the chest grows and court. and even restrained picture of grows.. the situation in New York's dockyards. Shipping companies. Johnny Dlo, the elegant mou- garment manufacturers, and the ster who has a fun following,
and today in The Tombs, the New owner ot restaurants
tho York City prison, chnin-smoking portation-sca, sky, and land-
reading True Confessions into one mammoth labour officers magazines. "He himself will ganisation, which he will head.
At 44 Holla, ruthless, unions confexs nothing and seem con-
tire- ndent that the syndicate for lessly...energeile,Ŋ– which he operates will protect pouncing vigour, in reaching for Day, hin, He will not see the Press a prize which the old union were, and the other day threw
Ilquor stores al pay to gangs or else!
Some of the highest
of the bly Anterlean
Valentine's
か On St 1920, acven gangsters
and
Ined up in a Chicago garage punch at a photographer.
or-
man of
Q
leaders like John L. Lewis and William Green never dreamed
of.
and wowed down with He may be let out on ball any machine-puns by rival mobsters time, or he may have to face
lisguised as policemen,
agala the Senate Investigating
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011
ile wants the world, Today he is penetically unchallenge for the presidency at the Inter- national Brotherhood of Team- sters, the biggest union earth. He says: "I know where I'm going I know what I'm going to do. I've been around 44 years and nobody's been Reading me by the hand."
Confident
IJOFFA about to be brought f before the McClellan Com- nittee and asked to tell what he knew about the rackets, was supremely conildent,
says:
They have nothing on me."
Only a few days ago he was sequitted on a bribery charge and laughed in the face of the | F.B.I. During the trial
Joc
Louis, the former heavyweight champion, appeared, not as a witness but, as Joe said, "to see my good friend Jimmy Hofte." There were eight Negroes the jury and they gazed at Louis with admiration.
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Hoffa says nothing can stop him, and perhaps nothing. and
No one, can. This new and menacing gure in the Ameri- can scene is complex. He has a keen brain and considerable polish. Harvard University In- vlied him there to discuss trars- portation problems, and hig series of lectures was excellent. He is a glad-hander, a mixer, a back-slapper-but he docs not drink or smoke. "I don't want to feltter away my energy on trivia. Smoking and drink- Ing are a waste of lime, and I have no time to waste."
He has a soft side, particu- larly for children, and his family Hies without blemish.
His chance
Wo the
WHEN Dave Beck; the head Teamsters Union, had to resign. through being absent-minded over what had happened to a little natter of $300,000, Hoffa saw his chance and moved lo.
His grandiose plan to weld all the transportation unions intó te, with himself as king, has been derourced as a bold bid for political power, as the union members would be expected to vole as Haffa indicated.
He sees nothing avrong
in using the vast funds of his
for corruption. He admits keep ing convicted extortionists On
cartit shouldn't I?"
For tourists-
MY GUIDE TO THE ENGLISH
POLITICAL SYSTEM...
HER APPARENT
The Figure-Head of State-a constitutional rider limited
the Tory or Socialist family..
LAENNEC
10
by CUMMINGS
They preside alternately over a debating society which, being completely symbolic, can take a
three months summer holiday and no one notices any difference so anything when it's away.......
BUS STRIKE
PICKET
COVENT GARDEN PICKET
RAIL
STRIKE
PICKET
Docks
STRIKE
PICHET
etc.
etc
The system is financed by bloated cupi. talism, the
reench of unearned in- come and the villainy of profic...c.g.
BUT-Power rests in the hands of the Prime Unionist, who commands a'majority in the House of Trades Unionises which does NOT take a three months holiday, and has the power to deprive you of everything except air ・ ・ ..
High Society is to be found among the elite cuite who possess the exclusive* and sought-after Trader Union Card -(*It is easier to penetrate the Princess Margaret set)
UNION
SHARE
- A child's game, a piece of paper and some string, led to the invention of an indis- ponsable diagnostic tool-the physician's stothoscope.
death
The law is enacted by the shop sreward...
THE JUDGE SAID HE COULD.. WE SAID HE COULDN'T..'s
HE DIDN'T
SKILLED
S EXCELLENTY
FRANK COUSINS
WORKS ENTRANCE HANDS ONLY
HORETS
DA JES DOCTORS ISOLATED HEARTISTS
The Community depends on the serf; a creature who works only by his brain. Fortunately he tu so terrorisedthatthereisnodanger of revolution-thank you very much.
Tap Tap Tap
went his heart
orders and disease within the uncle chest itself? .
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at the age of 14, and upon a reliablę basis for the served as a surgeon in the civil first time. Its value was im- wars even before he had his uediately recognised, and with The rat stethoscope in his- degree, An expert pathologist "It" Laennec's invention provided ⚫tory appeared in Lacunce's hands and an excellent teacher, Laen clinical medicine with what when he returned to his clinic, nce was a slightly bullt, madeat, soon became cde, of its *Dokt unions to gain domination. He ICARCELY imagining thoughts were back
amang where he tied a plece of paper man who shared not only the valuable diagnostic instruments. locned half a million dollars of ▲ that their simple game these hospital beds,
crowded in a roll with some string. forceful Ideals of his own teacher • Exhausted by
work, the Tetinsters' money to the would bring a turning point
with veterans suffering from Pulting ene end of this tube Corvisart, but also the sufferings Lacunee took u two-year rest International Longshoremen's
exposure and riddled with against A patient's chest. of many of his patients, to medical history, a group tuberculosis, the
The before preparing a Bocond Association to gal a hold on the
ravaged ro- heard sounds never before des zon of a tubercular mother, he edition of his book. His health port of New York, even though of children played in a mains of Napolean's Grand cribed, sounds for which 100 himself was fuled to dle of the was falling, however, and soon the LA, had been ostracised courtyard of the Louvre Amy. Without proper means of medical terms even existed. úisease which his discovery the physiciant became a patient.
palace in Paris one day in physicians ns Lacnnee were al them... Latance's teacher detecting.
diagnosis, even such akiful "There are your book, read would prova so effective in When Laennec died in 1876, his work remained' as' one of the his pay-roll and doesn't
1816. Holding their cars most helpless say,
before these Corylaart had once told his
foundation stones of our modera So what?" but, "Why DA glued to the ends of long pulmonary sufferings, which students, pointing to the patients. Trademark knowledge of chest diseases and
brought Formerly Napolcon's personal
dag moels. Only. by detundly victima physician, and
w head
getting at the physical roots of physician at the Necker hospital,
des such as tuberculosis Corvisart mistrusted theory" and
could treatments end, evontiai“, was one of the first to advocate
In an ingenious, púbito re- ly, cure' be develped. actually getting at the physical lations gesture that soungs, more Today, the discard which roota of disorno, · Here, at Ip*t, like the twentieth than the early killed Ltennes, and so“ imany of science the man who was to prove his nineteeth century. Lacanoc's millions of others
can be most famous pupli, was provide publisher Includedin, stethoscope diagnosed with the mid of X-TRYS ing the meantime, but with every copy of, the book and effectively fought with such Senate Investigation will shine
But now, watching the ab- When Laconce's epoch-making sold,' Lamner'a instrument was wonder drugs as Streptohydruald, a glaring light on the link bo- Rone Laennec, a young physki sorbed facis of the children sa book Day P'Auscultation was a wooden cylinder about a fock, But, “oven such complicated: tween Hofta and Johnny Dio. clan attached to the Necker, they latened to the top top lap published three, yours later, ha" long, will open channel, miracles at modern medicine During the probe the committeo hospital, was taking a brief on the pleets of wood, Latrinee's already had a long medical running down the centre. The and technology must be precord- hopes to reveal an underworld-respite from bis ducouraging expression changed alruptly; carter behind him, though he book ladt was both a manual, ed by the personal scrutiny er union network controlling mil- rounda in the hospital warde.why, not apply- this idea in hila was unly 38 years old. Born in for the stethoscope and a treaties - the physician, and every doctor "ilon of dollars, and, more And even as he paused to own work, medicine, to detest northern France in 1783, ho bad on lung and heart diseases, dan who uses a stejčiospone" is' a Important, millions, of lives. watch the children's game,' ħila“ the sounds which betray ila- begun medioni studiow" with an "tailing their diagnostic sounds disciple of Lawine..
Although practical poli-pieces of wood, they were aged on until
the only relief their tician, Hoffa disilkes making so absorbed in Listen could hope for. speeches, In this, as in so ing -to sounds tapped many other ways, he is entirely on the opposite ends by Eye different rom the man he their playmates that none wants to surpais Walter Reuther, the idealistic leader of of the children noticed the frail, hollow-faced figure Within the next few days the watching them.
the automobile unions.
of medicine