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UNITE Top Official Has Close Ties to NYC Garment Industry Mobsters When the stakes are high, the real crime story usually lurks beneath the respectable surface. That seems to be the case, at any rate, for the new labor federation, Change to Win (CTW). The group, which comprises seven unions with a combined …
LOOK BEHIND THE UNION LABEL This holiday season, UNITE, the needle-trades union that nearly a century ago began to transform Manhattan’s rag trade jungle into a social democracy, bought full-page ads in major papers across the country. ‘’We are taking a stand against sweatshops,’’ the union declared. ‘’When you shop this season,’’ UNITE told shoppers, …
March 7th, 2000 John J Flood – Frank Pape Capt. Frank Pape was known as “Chicago’s toughest cop.” In a career spanning nearly 40 years, he sent 300 men to prison, five to the electric chair and engaged in more than a dozen gun battles, surviving without a scratch while sending nine suspects to their …
“But they don’t use law and they use law for their interests. They don’t go by law, international, federal, local and; nothing! They go by whatever is expedient to protect the interests that are at stake.” …
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Spring, 1994 John J. Flood was recently named 1994 Police Officer of the Year by the Emerald Society of Illinois, a police fraternal society founded in 1975 to promote good will, fellowship and an appreciation for the Irish heritage that is historically intertwined with police work in the older industrial cities of the U.S.; …