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‘ i . Bog t 7 * + | eon e . . : . . In 1939 Steve Sumer, head of the Teamsters! Local No, 753 of Chicaro, testified in the U, S. Courthouse before Bollon B. Turner, Member of the U. S, fax Board of Appeals, that when Frank Nitti, notorious Chicago gangster now deceased, Paul Ricca and louis Campegna, wanted to seize control of the Chicago union that they either had the head official of the Chicago union step eside or _ 4f he refused they would arrange for his murder by their henchman, © (62-751, 7=9=3 pe 23: OO Tan ae _In 1943, William Bioff, when interviewed concerning the participation of sthers in the extortion of money from movie producers, mantioned that in 1934; Soe a ae 1935 and 1936, the Chicago Syndicate, composed of Capone gangsters including Louis Campagna, Nick Circella, Paul Delucia, Frank Fischetti, Frank Nitti, and others, held meetings at a house in Riverside, Tllinojs. He further stated that in 1934, Lepke Buchalter, former notorious New York gangster, attended one of these meetings for the purpose of the selection of the president of the International Alliance of Theatrical and Staze Employees. Ha indicated that these meetings were mainly oo for the discussion of organization and control of certain labor mions./-, e- «PE 8Be G2A75ULT-H-1 pe 2) (2-81 SIE Circuit Court records of Cook County, Illinois, reveal that George 3. Melane, former head of the Bartenders’ Union, Local No. 278 of Chicago, testified that for a period of twenty-eight years, ending in 1940, he was the head of this union, He stated that he was first approached by Frank Nitti, Murray llumphreya, Fred Evans, Louis Campagna, and several other gangsters, and that step by step betwee to 1940 thig Capone mob took over the control of this Bartenders! Union. SB ELALX SLGTPERLRGY (62-6109 62-81093-9-2 Serial 2 pe 3) In May, 1942, the Chicago Crime Commission advised that the control of —Ft- ee ae PL 2 a Paver wile Jabor unions as well as vice and gambling in Chicago was in the hands of Frank Nitti, Murray Itumphreys, Louis Campapna, and several others, end that each of these SEE was very influential in crime conditions in Chicago {62-81093-9-7=Serial Alvin Karpis, notorious kidnaper and bank robber, advised after he wis taken into Federal custody in May, 1936, that in 1933 Louis Campagna of the Capone syndicate in Chicago, Illinois, had offered him a job with the syndicate at a salary of $250 per week. He stated that he was supposed to do strong arm work for the syndicate and that he refused this offer. (62-81093-94450 pe 15) The Identification records under FBI No, 613863 reflect that Campagna was arrested on October 1, 1918, by the Chicago Police Department on a charge of bank robbery. He was received at the State Reformatory at Pontiac, Illincia, ca April 3, 1919 to serve one to fourteen years on the robbery charge. Ho was paroled from this institution on April 8, 1924. . Hea was arrested as a parole violator on October 10, 1924, and was re- eased on parole on November 11, 1924, and was discharged from parole on Decenocr i, 1925. On May 2, 1931, he was | arrested by the Chicago Folice Department on a charge of vagran onan, 4 June 9, 1931. This arrest was unsipported mo ee = eT _" - sy = Aa amen ws aS oat Be oe — Seo - a rac Men va “Ts te c¢ Pa » -_ ie en, re . . - ro