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EXTORTION SCHEWE year, when the activities seero to rosomd a peak umen were cted in Mannattan for labor rack- IN MINORITY HIKING ering charges linked.to minority coalitions, The Dinkins administration an- IS CHARGED BY U.S. tions a ycar ago after two Queens ities were murdered.A police raid a ters of the United Brogklyn Coalition 31 SUSPECTS ARE INDICTED Iseane ou3 ol pa! pue sun? u3ta puno! tion law-enforcement officials empha- i 30 people sized thal they had no ties to legrtirraty? The projects at which the extortion civjl-rignts groups that had been seek- Contractors in New York Were ing widier employment of women and the Greenpoint Hospital in Brooklyn, minnrities in the building trades. Public School 24 and P.S.15'n Victims of Ploys to Fight The authorities acted after the police Queens, the 23d Street Bridge had amassed hundreds of reporis of Bias Prosecutors Say incidents and payoffs. site in Brooklyn. "industry officials say the coajj. One example listed in the indictment said five men dcnanded $8,ooo fromt ByRICHARDD.LYONS executives of the Arson Dcmolition Thirty-one people were indicted yes- Company last year and that company torday on charges that they ran eight. neace at an unidentified construction groups that, under the guise of obtain- site. ing construction jobs tor black and Since even a short workday disrap. hard than privete ones. hispanic workers, violently extorted tion can cost thousands of dollarg The three-year investigation of the thousands of dollars from New York nany contractors are willing to hire buiding contractors. red ouby the New York Police De Federal attorneys in Brooklyn said op the picketing law-enforcenient partments Major Case Squad, tha 24 of the 31 pcople indicted were arrest- ficials say. New York Office of the Federal Bu- ed by F.B.i. agernts and the police in] reau of Investigationand the Federa Department of Labor's Office of raids that started early yesterday.Two Racketeoring. athers are reported to be in prison on Police Commissioner Raymond W. 6/30/43 other charges and seven have not been In all, the officials said, several Kelly told a news conference at the fouid. undred workers linked with the - Federal Attorney's Office in Brook- The idictmenis and arrests add an- lyn that the illcgal activities of the other new chapter in the contentious Show postions at scores of constru'. history of nunority hiring in the con ion projects.Most of thosc wno acti- City" for years. struction industry. Law-entoreement aliy did work at projccts had to turn- Padding Their Packets [ ofticials and people in the construction teaders, these officials added. industry say the prolferation of the Mr.Kcily added that money extor extortionist groups are tht jagged edge ed from construction companies and kickbacks paid by legitimzte workers of a movemet that has heen trying those by simllar groups that have were being paid to Jeaders of the since th 19ou's to give black and His- become active in other cities,princi- panic workers a tochold in the largely pally Los Angeles. own pockcts at the expense of the wte and exehusionary building tradas. Law-enforcement officials would community." not estimate how much the illegal The coalitions based most of thcir Protection Msney groups might have extorted over ihe operations in Brooklyn, Queens and New York and Federal officials said e g ne the Bronx, and some had offices in the leaders of the so-called minority groups' activities became so lucra- Manhattan afiins purporied to provid pools ci tive ihat battles with semiautomatic The groups named in the indict- workers t help contrctors meet Fed wcapons sometimes broke out be. ment are: United Brocklyn Construc eral ard local laws that required rhem tween rivai groups over which would tion Workers Coalition,United New get lo shake cown which companies York Construction Workers, United to'hire ceruin mininua percentages and which sites. Hispanic Construction Workers, of minority workers. Instead, the offi- Police have estimated that at least Black and Latin Economic Survival, cials sid th gungs cxtorted protec- 35 such coalitions have operated in New Alliance, United Construction tion money, sometimes by beating own Workers Coalltion, Hispanic and ers and foremen,,disrpting work or Black Coalition and Black Power, preventing other workers from enter- Most of those arrested yesterday ing job sites. hese groups falsely representing each. In addition to the eight main themselves as working to increase mi- groups mentioned in yesterday's in nority empioyment in the constraction dictment.the document named ather groups whose fcunders were either jdstrywee aeually extortng mon inked with the coalitions, or had ties ey,jobs and contracts for security to to security companies that collected enrich coalition leaderssa Zachary money from construclion companies. W. Cartar, the Federal Attorney in They are: New York Organization of Bronklyn. Minority and Women Business Enter- Gntike snme other cases in which prises, United We Stand, Afro Con- I' wlates used minority-group conicder- struction and DemolitionAfre Enter- prisesAfro Security Eplphany En- minority-owned companies, most of the terprisesK.N.r.Contracting Compa 30 mon and one woman indicted yester- ny,On-Site Consultant Services Inc. Royal Security, and LM Security day ere black or Hispanic. But while many operated urider such naner ack and Latin pnnmic urvival and Hispanic and Black Coall- Was burdcutside New Yorlt City.