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_ r Spellmaj its Uni Gangsters Sermon Urges Labor Clean-Up By Jo-Ann Price | Francis Cs pan lashed out Te speapdae_ again “noaade anal wanectars ana pe Ce a el murderers” “murderers” in _Aqperican labor unions. In @ rare sermon from the pulpit of St. Patrick's Cathe- dra), the Roman Catholic Arch- bishop of New York called for action to “remove from power unscrupulous leaders and their underworld hirelings” in rack- et-ridden unions. | Cardinal Speliman's ten-, minute sermon at the 16 a. m. solemn mass came just two days after the A. F. L-C. I..0. pei the Teamsters U 5 sruption charges. He - on rT from « teamster's ap; to him to speak ouy, in half of families ) f gangster-ruled ons. Rasen statis 2G S ad SO > os E ip a: & ' t references to ineldynts of ngsterism whcovered the nate iabor-manarentent rackets committee, the recent state police raid on the gang- land meeting at Apalachin. N. Y., and the scid blinding of Vietor Riese], labor. columnist The Cardinal charged that i! was the aim of mobsters tc FE labor and managemeni 1 alike “to become ‘twin slaves of the underworld.’ * He declared: “Dally we learn the ser- did detalls of cerruption and violence featured by newspaper, radie and tele- wisien, The close association ef some senion leaders with known criminals, the cre- ation ef ‘dummy ihecais,” the rigging ef elections, extor- Hon, achd-throwing, graft and the misuse @f union funds —~ these blatant viola- Hens of Gee trust ef their fellow-workers make all of us whe are friends ef labor feel shame and indignatien. ' “But we must do mere than ; be shocked or feel morally agerieved. We must act, and, * while there is still time, re- meeve frem pewer aEecrapc-_ fous leaders and thetr under- hirelings, is @ tragic, almost an- able fact that these ‘everserds’ of erime hare a a dared io bineprint plans qith | ere emmy oe 14 ory debe TT Dal 4 re “BS 2&