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NK 94-417 WID: JMP between LEW and and wes very uneasy about | every weekend, This was the ext of the conversation | such mysterious ‘doing aS. About four weeks later the General Manager of ” - Kermouth Manufacturing Company, who is al bi ‘esident or a j t of that company, came ‘o igi :#3ce in i He expressed an interest pump for ' a diesel mar f ich is assigned to OI gue ca ncaraaa ip e represen ve oO ermouth Manufacturing Company. Negotiations fell through, and later wrote to the General Manager of Kermouth Manufactur y asking for return of the drawing. He received ly from Kermouth that the drawing bad not been received. (UMMM -2cortainea that Kermouth Manufacturing Company in a subsidiary of the Berium Steel Company, 20 Wall Street, New York, and that Berium Steel Company is wholly controlled by Republic Industries, 20 Wall Street, New York, also that Republic Industries b m™ disp a nt company for many other subsidiaries. Recently “ =: noticed in the newspapers that various subsidiaries ic Industries have received heavy loans from . i the R.F.C. He has also learned that it is common knowledge we on Wall Street that J, A, SISTA, President of Republic Industries, is an unsavory one. and has been involved in illicit business manipulations, observed that ZWILLMAN gave orders to a represen of the A.F. of L. and t must have some control in that union in Newark, Also, bserved that ZWILLMAN gave orders to the President o: public Industries, and therefore must be a powerful figure. He gathered the impression t G. LEW, of the A, F, of L. is a henchman of ZWILLMAN. had noted in a local newspaper an article which set fo the results of the questioning by the Kefauver Committee of ABNER ZWILLMAN, in which it was stated that ZWILLMAN admitted operating 1100 cigarette vending machines, and also admitted that he was a former bootlegger, but declin ive further data regarding his money matters. eels that there is little doubt but what ZW: s a giant gambling establishment, and has his finger in union activities. In testifying before the Senate Crime Investigating Committee in 1951, ZWILLMAN admitted that he centrolled the Federal Automatic Company which had about 600 or 700 washing mchine units located in apartments in northern New Jersey. - 30 ~