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Dirba. Two days later the Dies Committee heard a witness as outspoken and blunt as Witness Krivitsky was retiring. This was Maurice Malkin, 40-year-old naturalized Russian fur worker, charter member of the U. S. Communist Party, long a well-known figure in the allegedly Communist-dominated Fur Workers Union in Manhattan. Tossed into jail for two years after the incredible New York fur workers' strike of 1926,* Comrade Malkin nursed a grievance. But he remained a member until 1936, collected information, gossip, made statements that led Chairman Dies to observe: "It would be hard for the Chair...
When Irving Potash, C. I. O. Fur Workers Union man, objected, saying that Russia had merely drawn a line in Poland to protect itself from Germany, the floor exploded with boos and sarcastic cries of "Heil Hitler!" As Potash struggled on, booing broke into thunderous shouts of "Take him away! Down with Hitler...
...public did not become Lepke-conscious until last month, when Presidentially ambitious District Attorney Thomas Edmund Dewey branded Lepke as "probably the most dangerous criminal in the U. S." and posted a $25,000 reward for his capture dead or alive. Lepke was supposed to have preyed on the fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. After that Lepke became a pawn in a political game between Republican District Attorney Dewey, who is grooming himself for a Presidential nomination by racket-busting, and Democratic U. S. Attorney General Frank Murphy, who wanted the glory of busting Lepke himself...
Graduate of the Connecticut Reformatory (at 20) and Sing Sing (at 21), Buchalter developed from a small-time loft burglar into the wealthy boss of "protective corporations" in Manhattan's fur, garment, painting, trucking and other trades. His gorillas slugged, knifed, threw lye in the eyes of merchants who did not pay up. Murder, if necessary, did not bother Lepke, the Leopard. When he went in for financing heroin smugglers in a big way, he had already become quite used to having people rubbed out. Two years ago he dropped out of sight, jumped bail after being indicted with...
...down in Manhattan called up to ask a bodyguard for Philip Orlovsky. That made Democratic District Attorney Sam Foley of The Bronx furious. Orlovsky, it appeared, was one of Tom Dewey's prospective witnesses against Racketeer Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, a fugitive under indictment for dirty work in the fur, clothing, baking, restaurant, paint, trucking and other trades. Two other Dewey witnesses had been similarly shot down, presumably by Racketeer Lepke's agents, in recent months; two were missing, others wounded. Democrat Foley fumed loudly & bitterly at Republican Dewey for not guarding his witnesses sooner, so that innocent citizens...