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z : ‘ j pH cen, in Sd Bk duct hen sg us Murder, Inc. Lahor Wars ‘Montreal, Canada, by his dead "satherintaw'e peat pass pert. ‘ But there bis 1G stipes. tefereele ed Wrote to Lepke and said he was : et Harry Big Greente) ‘Greenberg fs"not so much a order mystery as % is a “eommentary on the American ; ‘scene and the underworld em- pire we have allowed to grow, up in our midst. * ‘Big Gre@nie was a Russian immigrant, a ‘burly and un-| couth man who never learned: to speak better than broken’ English and who, apparently, “had not a very high IQ. He did bave, however, brute force, a certain cunning and an entire jack of scruples. : ‘The combination made him ‘valuable to an organization which | | | Murder, Inc., of Brooklyn, N.Y. At the time the organtza- { fon was making a modest start by furnishing strong- arm squads for Manhattan's Industrial disputes, Fur and garment workers, bakery Workers and others were rlugged and kept in line, Y Later it added a new and prot- ¥ sable activity—homicide, A really important killing _ could be bought for around $500; 2F 3 #0 $1000. Lesser Jobs, went as low; 5 $100. (Z Lena on, 5 zl ed Pald $50 to $100 4 For any kind of a killing the ;_triggermen got $50 to $100 apiece,’ ithe heads of the slaying syndi- Feate, Louis (Lepke) Buchalter, 2 pMmanuel Weiss and Jacob Gurrah, took the rest. Around this time Big Greenie pre Bot picked up in a labor slugging ¢fbarge, was turned over to the p immigration authorities and “6 ported to Poland. ning Big Greenie man- to Sip b back a8 far = FEDERAL BURE on OF HV BSTISATION o OTHER T ¢ ‘UOSTICE JUN 17 1949