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OW oOAnAu Pw A re o kK kF RO 8 POR Re Be et pe Wh Oro OA OA Ew in order to formulate, direct, and coordinate their criminal activities. (100-42303 -274) 2, Cloveland Mecting, 1923 The firet known instance of a large meeting of Mafiosi took place — in December, 1928, when 23 Important Sicllian-Itallan hoedlums met ata Cleveland hotel. This gathering was the forerunner of other meetings of! ~ —— (124) Si “eufiosl. — (§3-4296-11-26} Loy 2 Cleveland police arrested those present on charges of being Pola of “susplefous persons." Thirteen guns were found in the possession of the, 29 30 group, Lost of those apprehended were fined $50 and given 30-day suspended 31 33 cemb-rees. (63-4296 -11-25) 3 The Cleveland mecting was sald to have been called for the 7 following reasons: (1) ta settle the control of rackets in Brooklyn, (2) to fad 38 ‘ 39 rivalry in the illegal alcohol business in various eastern and ‘midwestern! ay: 40 i territories so as to prevent further bloodshed, and (3) to elect a successor te to Tony I. smbirdo, a Canons hoollum and president of the TaNan-American 4s (125) 46 TMattonal Union in Chicago, who had been killed. (92- 2834- “1, Pp. _ 12) op ci cil, 47 , (100-42303-282, pp. 2, 3, 5; 92-2834-7, pp. il- 12) 48 At least four of the Mafiost present at the Cleveland meeting 9 2 attended subsequent meetings of groups of Sicilian-Itallan hoodlums in Florida 25 and New York. woof them, Joseph Profact! and his brother-in-law, : 36 - 86 - | ‘¥ . ‘ ia nN a mo f