Word: traded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fourth of all antitrust complaints have been about the building industry, where restraints of trade are found from cellar to roof: producers of building materials, distributors, contractors, subcontractors, labor unions, and in local legislative restraints of trade, such as building "regulations" that only thinly veil protective tariffs set up for the benefit of local monopolies. (Arnold cites the fact that the plumbing in the magnificent $10,000,000 Department of Justice building is arbitrarily ruled not good enough for private homes in some cities...
Opening Guns. Indicted in St. Louis for conspiracy in restraint of trade were four American Federation of Labor leaders, headed by reactionary, hulking William L. Hutcheson of Indianapolis, president of the carpenters' union (300,000 members). Root of the indictment: a 25-year-old jurisdictional dispute between carpenters' and machinists' unions over equipment installations at the Anheuser-Busch brewery, forcing abandonment of plans to build additional aging and fermenting plants, etc., to cost from $750,000 to $2,000,000. The dispute, said an Arnold assistant, Roscoe Steffen, "could be settled in an hour if the leadership...
...Cleveland, indicted for restraint of trade were five businessmen, three corporations, one trade association, four A. F. of L. union officers in the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators & Paperhangers...
...many a building-labor chief. Many a citizen still remembers the tie-ups between gangsters and building unions in the Roaring Twenties; that it was from such men as Jake the Bum, oldtime A. F. of L. criminal, that Chicago and New York gangsters learned numerous tricks of the trade...
...years Capone & Torrio ruled Cicero, the Chicago suburb whose name has been notorious ever since. Only disputant of their power was Dion O'Banion, on Chicago's North Side, who ran a flower shop as a sideline, specialized in floral pieces for gangster funerals, a highly lucrative trade. O'Banion said he hated Wops. One November noonday three men came to his shop, riddled him with bullets and left him sprawling on a pile of ferns. Among the tributes around O'Banion's $10,000 casket was a basket of roses tagged: "From...