The Waterfront Commission of New York Harbor, on December 7, formally banned multiple individuals from obtaining "gainful" employment on the docks over alleged ties to Mafia figures.
As per published reports, the rejects had ties to the Lucchese, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and DeCavalcante crime families.
The Commission also blocked an applicant who did not disclose his association with a “member of the Sicilian faction of the Gambino family.
Their contracts were things like having a grandfather who was an associate, or an in law who was a member years ago. The men themselves had no criminal involvement, why do you leave that out?
As I said earlier, they threw out people for things like old shoplifting arrests (Two Black women who were secrataries at the waterfront) and they did throw out a few guys (Non-Italian, non OC) who had old serious offenses. Think: If people with records are banned from jobs, is the reason to push them back to crime?
The Waterfront Commission is a political tool to give friends jobs where they do nothing useful (How ironic) by snooping deep into workers pasts to find anything to get them fired.
