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meee meee tm cere me Memorandum for the Director. -~2- July 25, 1936 is that canvas was used in men's suits and overcoats, which is a part of the industry. No investigation was made to verify this statement. omplaint was also made Bh eer covenenal who are manufacturers of paper boxes in New vs oseph Parisi and his gang, of which he listed Louis Lepke as a member, were interfering with interstate commerce by violence; that the paper box industry consisting of 215 shops in New York City, Long Island and Brooklyn, and possibly 40 shops in the State of New Jersey, carried on interstate commerce between the State of New Jersey and New York, and that a small amount of business was done by the New York concerns with individuals in Connecticut; that there had been numerous instances in which violence was used to forcp drivers of the industry, as well as inside employees, to join the/Truck Drivers’ Union, thereby exacting lucrative revenue from the workers in the form of dues and initiation fees. However, a statement was later taken from a numbér of employees of theflational Eagle Paper Box Company, Inc., located at 1226 Flushing Avenue, Brooklyn, New York, in which they stated that Parisi was the main racketeer in the paper box industry and that he was merely using Buckhalter's (alias Louis Lepke) name because he knew he was an ex-convict and a racketeer of Greater New York, and that by associating himself with Lepke, Parisi could thereby demand more respect from the manufacturers and from their employees, Benjemin Heffnan, Assistant Attorney General, Department of Labor, Attorney General's Office of the State of New York, at 8 Center ew York City, stated in an interview with Special Agent t+ New York City on August 15, 1934, that he had been unable Cs) any evidence which might indicate that Louis Lepke was connected with the paper box industry. This case relating to the racketeering activities of gangsters in the/paper box industry is still being investigated by the Bureau_and is b ing car files as JOSEPH yLE LOUIS LEPKE and - ST (File aa On January 31, 1935, Special Agent in charge on BE. P. Dunn, of Los Angeles, California, directed @ ivgiter to tue We. York Bureau Office, which was in reference to a communication from the New York Office, advising them of their files with respect to well-known