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i. NY 92-657 n "MCGEE said WILLIAM P. SIRIGNANO, the Commission's executive director and general counsel ordered the investigation after the reported link between SCOTTO and GAMBINO became public knowledge. "Even if SIRIGNANO should conclude that SCOTTO has mob con- nections - he insists he hasn't, and says disclosure of his _‘,,name da an anti-union tactic - there is not much the com- r* mission could do.about him, McGEE said. He pointed out that ‘as a union official, SCOTTO doesn't need a Waterfront Commission license to operate on the waterfront. "Phe Commission will concentrate on racket activities of Maria people who do work on the piers. _ "According to the table of mobsters listed by McCLELLAN, the - GAMBINO family includes another waterfront union official here, JOSEPH COLOZZO. As far back as the VALACHI hearings, COL0ZZ0 * had been identified in testimony as a member of the GAMBINO group. "He was said by some intelligence agents to be the mob's man on the New York waterfronts, and the man who gives SCOTTO orders. But SCOTTO, in a magazine interview several years ago, once told an interviewer: > :.? 241 know everything you could tell me about COLOZZ0. He is supposed to be telling me what to do. No one tells me what to do.'! "SCOTTO, 35, has been hailed as a 'new breed' of: longshore boss. He lectures at Harvard on labor-management techniques. : Last march, he urged repeal of the Taft-Hartley law; which. he M blamed for a 56 day dock strike earlier this year. " "Aggressive in union matters, he has challenzed old-line union - leaders in convention battles. He once tricd but failed to : overthrow THOMAS W. GLEASON, presiuent ov the ILA, rer the post 9 of president of the executive board oi the unions Atlantic Coast district." - On August 22, 1969 the following article appeared .- in the Late City Edition of the New York Times,” page abs PROB,