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wove them out O1 the cur "Potasn said. ~, _ In the fight against them and their employer-allies, he contin ued, the union succeeded in or- canizing the dressing and dyeing industry, gaining improved con- ditions for the workers. When the trial came in 1936, the fecr instilled by the racketeers created a cynical attitude. Every-~ one was saving that the two would go scot free, that no one would dare to identify them. POTASH PUTS GURRAH ON SProT But Potash put the finger on Gurrah, revealing his connections with the bosses racketeering ase sociation. So did Sam Burt, mane ger of the Joint Board of Fur ressers and Dyers. It was Potash’s testimosy, ‘Substantiated by Burt, which t Gurrah to jail. Both Lepke ind Gurrah were convicted. But ‘the trial was only on fede offenses. The murders, racketeer: nations in the ‘elty violence committed during period, had to be dealt with cally. Meanwhile, both were free on bail, pending appeals, in sharp contrast to the stubborn opposi- tion of Dewey's office toaaplace bail yor Schneider, convicted of a inor offense on trumped-up harges. The two industrial racketeers slipped through the fingers of the police, but they dict slipped through the fingers of the fur workers. Lepke's convicti was reversed. he djsappeared as Dewey was looking for him. : It was ex-federal Judzp Man- ton, recently found guilty of tak- ing bribes, who permitted them to escape by giving these notorious Gangsters ridiculously low bail pending appeal. Gurrah finaily gave himself up but Lepke is still at Jarge, and is said to be conduciing his racket- eering empire under the nose of prosecuting authorities. But, thanks to the union rot in the fur industry. The fur workers forthright at- teck ‘on the racketeers. licking before any government ty bothered to step in, Potash ceclaied, is the real waswer to re- cent attempts to link uniomt> with racketeering. f 60-(s61- 4 —~ _., $e