Word: baldwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story did not explain why no builder could do the job in the St. Louis area, so Armstrong assigned P-D Reporter Carl Baldwin, 45, to find out. Baldwin, a P-D staffer for 23 years, quickly found the reason: "St. Louis [had] become the capital of labor rackets in the construction industry...
...Baldwin's spadework in exposing the rackets resulted in more than 100 stories and brought on FBI. congressional and grand-jury investigations. Last week two federal grand juries handed down a fresh batch of eight criminal indictments-bringing to 38 the number of men indicted since Reporter Baldwin began his investigation...
...Fixers. Starting with the incomplete wire service report on Scott Field, Baldwin discovered that several of the contractors had the same reason for refusing to build in the St. Louis area: "We just can't afford the payoff." The payoff was to corrupt A.F.L. building-trades union bosses and business agents. The racketeers, often in league with local subcontractors, concentrated on jobs where there was a fixed completion date, held them up with featherbedding, slowdowns and jurisdictional disputes until the completion deadline got close. Then they made themselves "available" to "fix things up" for the builder-at a price...
...When Baldwin's first P-D expose broke, contractors and honest union members flocked to him with more stories of how the rackets worked. He got one tip that an emissary for Lawrence Callanan, an ex-convict who ran the powerful A.F.L...
Fred Horween, working with three-year veteran Todd Goodwin and sophomore Karl Bjork in the first line, Skip Baldwin, centering Chuck Edwards and Jim Telfer in the third, and John Lane, utility midfielder and attack man, are top threats from tomorrow's game in the other lines...