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NY 92-657 "MCGEE said WILLIAM P. SIRIGNANO, the Commission's executive Girector and general counsel ordered the investigation after the reported link between SCOTTO and GAMBINO became public knowledge. "Even if SIRIGNANO should conclude that SCOTTO hes mob con- nections - he insists he hasn't, and says disclosure of his ‘name ia an anti-union tactic - there is not much the com- y boy ‘mission could do about him, McGEE said. He pointed out that ‘as a union official, SCOTTO doesn't need a Waterfront Commission license to operate on the waterfront. “Tne Commission will concentrate on racket activities of Maria people who do work on the piers. ; "According to the table of mobsters listed by McCLELLAN, the , (GAMBINO family includes another waterfront union official here, ,* ».. JOSEPH COLOZZO. As far back as the VALACHI hearings, COLOZZO * had been identified in testimony as a member of the GAMBINO group. Wire ent toalliganre agents to be tha mak Is man née Was said by some intelligence OCHO VO LO Ht lil ALLL A on the New York waterfronts, and the man who gives SCOTTO . orders. But SCOTTO, in a magazine interview several years ago, once told an interviewer: Pea know everything you could tell me about COLO0OZZO. He is supposed to be telling me what to do. No one tells me what to do.'! "SCOTTO, 35, has been hailed as a 'new breed! of longshore DOSS. He lectures at Harvard on labor-management techniques. Last march, he urged repeal of the Taft-Hartley lawj which. ? ’ blamed for a 56 day dock strike earlier this year. " "Aggressive in union matters, he has challensed old-line union ' Yeaders in convention battles. He once tricd but failed to overthrow THOMAS W. GLEASON, presiuent o. the ILA, rer the post 9 of president of jthe executive board ot the unions Atlantic ; Coast district. On August 22, 1969 the following article appeared in the Late City Edition of the New York Times," page 44; POM Un f& tae tors ana I ee ' Putt we é La) i _— q