The Labor Sluggers War was a 15-year period of gang wars among New York City labor sluggers for control of labor racketeering from 1911 to 1927. This began...
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podcast about drug addiction "Dopey" Benny Fein, a gang leader in the Labor Slugger Wars in New York City in the early 20th century Dope (disambiguation) Doping...
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Jacob Shapiro (section Labor slugger)
labor racketeering working for Jacob Orgen. Orgen had previously wrested control of this racket from Nathan Kaplan in the decade-long Labor Slugger Wars...
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an American New York City labor racketeer in the early 1900s as an ally of "Dopey" Benny Fein during the Labor Slugger Wars (1914–1917).[citation needed]...
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Labor slugger wars until its eventual takeover by Jacob "Gurrah" Shapiro in 1927. Other Jewish organized crime figures involved in controlling labor unions...
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Gang, he and Johnny Spanish fought over control of labor racketeering during the Labor Slugger Wars. Phillip Kastel No image available 1893–1962 1900s–1950s...
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gang leader and labor racketeer[where?] allied with Philip "Pinchy" Paul[further explanation needed] during the first "Labor Slugger War"[when?] against...
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strike which later become known as the Second Labor Sluggers War in 1919. He became involved in labor racketeering, holdups of saloons and other businesses...
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strike of 1909 1911: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire 1911-1927: Labor Slugger Wars 1912: Authors Guild founded as the Authors League of America 1913:...
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East Side eventually earning $20,000 a year. In 1913 several minor labor slugger gangs formed to break the monopoly held by Fein and rival Joseph Rosenzweig...
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first of many skirmishes which will eventually lead up to the First Labor Slugger War. The Gangster (1913) starring Lionel Adams, Ferdinand Tidmarsh and...
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Gong, Eng Ying and Bruce Grant. Tong War!: The First Complete History of the Tongs in America, Details of the Tong Wars and Their Causes, Lives of Famous...
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Rosenzweig's rival Philip "Pinchy" Paul ended the first of the so-called "Labor Slugger Wars", which would continue on and off for well over a decade. Snyder's eventual...
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Rosenweig and Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein resulting in the first Labor Slugger War. A "starker" for the Furriers Union, Paul became involved in an altercation...
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illegal possession of firearms. August 1 – The third New York City Labor Slugger War (with thugs hired by both sides to do battle in strikebreaker situations)...
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Greaser" Rosenzweig and Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein during the first "Labor Slugger War". Lustig was also employed as a clerk and whose brother was a detective...
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Tanner Smith (section War with the Gophers)
gangs, but also for some members connection to the First Labor Slugger War involving labor racketeers Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein and Joseph "Joe the...
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vagrancy. He became involved in labor racketeering in Manhattan's Lower East Side and, prior to the third "Labor Slugger War", Levinsky reportedly became...
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Ralph Daniello (category Mafia–Camorra War)
participated in labor racketeering and extortion. He was involved in the 1913 Labor slugger war. In 1916 he became involved in the Mafia-Camorra War. He was a...
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leaders, he also headed prosecutions against labor racketeers involved in the first "Labor Slugger War". He was nominated for re-election by the New...
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an American gangster who controlled labor racketeering and extortion in New York City during the post-World War I period into the early years of Prohibition...
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Arthur H. Woods (category United States Army personnel of World War I)
Dusters two years later, he also became involved in labor racketeering during the "Labor Slugger War". Working with District Attorney Charles A. Perkins...
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family from Austria as Jacob Orgenstein, Orgen became a well-known labor slugger for Benjamin "Dopey Benny" Fein by the early 1910s. Being ambitious...
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Charge By Labor," Chicago Daily Tribune, January 18, 1903. "Slug At Labor Election," Chicago Daily Tribune, January 19, 1903. "'Slug' At Labor Election...
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The Alderman's wars was a series of murders and violent rioting between warring Alderman Johnny "de Pow" Powers and Anthony D'Andrea from 1916 until 1921...
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Wars films. It is the first full-length animated Star Wars series targeted at young audiences. As of March 19, 2025,[update] 48 episodes of Star Wars:...
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the civil war had destroyed what was left of the gang. Sirocco later formed another gang, hiring out to strikebreakers and labor sluggers, competing...
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marks the territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone. 1894 – Labor Day becomes an official US holiday. 1895 – The United States Court of Private...
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The universe of Star Wars is set in a fictional galaxy that serves as the primary setting for the Star Wars multimedia and film franchise. Originally established...
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Chicago gangster, Stevens first gained prominence as a labor slugger, alternating between labor racketeer Maurice "Mossy" Enright and other rivals, often...
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