Word: strongarms
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Dates: during 1928-1928
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...Chicago and The Racket were giving their city, citizens had become genuinely alarmed by hordes of crooks and thugs who, finding the alcohol and dope industries too highly organized to be profitable or even safe in Chicago, had turned to such bold badness as the "union racket"- a simple strongarm game, played with lead pipes and sawed-off shotguns, where the crooks formed "labor unions" of junk men, fish dealers, tailors, cobblers or other defenseless professionals, and shot or clubbed any who refused to join and pay "dues...