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60-502, Under date of Nay 8, 1935 the Bureau transnitted to this office a memorandum from Assistant Attorney General Harold M, Stephens, requesting that an interview be had “ith ay ::::. N. Je, who, on April 29, I9G5, had addressed a complaint to the Department concerning the leaders of Local #2 of the Fur Dressers Union, and Local #3 of the Floor Yorkers Union. In discussing this case with Mr, Albert J. Law, Svecial As-~ sistant to the Attorney General, Mr. Law suggested that be interviewed in his office and that he would arrange to have a reouest subpoena sent to for this purpose as soon as the trial of the Fresh ater Fish Case, which was then in progress, was comnleted, agent called at Mr, Dewey's hone and, not finding him in, subsecuently contacted him by telephone and he stated that it would be agreeable to him to call at ar. Law's orifice, Room 550, Old Post Office Building, on August &, 1935, Agent then interviewed QP. nc, as requested in the memorandum of Assistant Attorney General Stephens, obtained a statement in affidavit form wherein he alleges that payments to racket+ eers and gangsters in connection with acts of violence were cnarged to "Organization Expense" of Local #2, International Fur Dressers Union, and alleges that Morris Stein, who has been active in the Fur Workers Union for the past ten years or more, took an active part in many of the bombings and assaults which had occurred in the fur industry in recent years; that, as an indication of this, the time records of the State Fur Dressing Company, formerly of Brooklyn, N. Y., but now lo- cated at Bound Brook, N. Je, by whom Stein was then employed, will show that he was absent from work whenever an act of violence occurred; fur~ ther, that in August, 1934, the officers and some of the employees of the State Fur Dressing Company, then in Brooklyn, were assaulted by a of Local #3, International Floor dorkers Union, “dn Merch. : » the State Fur Dressing plant at Bound Brook, N. J., was surrounded and threatened by a mob led by Norris Stein; also, that recently, there had been several meetings of the vro- prietors of the Fir Dressing Company for the purpose of organizing a new association similar to the Fur Dressers Factor Corporation, which meetings are rumored to have been called by Louis Buchalter, alias “Lepke". The signed copy of affidavit is forwarded herevith to three copies are being forwarded to the Bureau, one copy is being forwarded to Trenton, and two copies are being retained ix the file of this office, be