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<blockquote data-quote="35years" data-source="post: 5082181" data-attributes="member: 60822"><p>Dad was kind of closed lipped about some of it. Like the guys who go to war and come back. Not everything was legal...</p><p></p><p>He was at the grain exchange at the time of the riots. He was an organizer and political. It cost him his job. </p><p></p><p>A different world. He rode the rails during the great depression. St Paul was the wild west. Capone, Ma Barker and all the gangsters were allowed to hang out without fear of prosecution in St Paul as long as they did everything illegal outside the city limits...Usually in Mpls.</p><p></p><p>Dad described the speakeasys...Slot machines along the walls. The buck machines as you walk in. Then the quarter, dime, nickle, and penny slots as you go towards the exit.</p><p></p><p>My grandpa did hard time at Leavenworth for bootlegging. My impression is dad was involved in running the hooch.</p><p></p><p>So the books paint a rather whitewashed picture of the organizers. They were dealing with ruthless "business owners". Think of the dishonest bastard managers at UPS but with more power. So the workers challenging their power needed to be ruthless as well. Who were the real criminals? Society favored the men with money. Cops were enforcers.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="35years, post: 5082181, member: 60822"] Dad was kind of closed lipped about some of it. Like the guys who go to war and come back. Not everything was legal... He was at the grain exchange at the time of the riots. He was an organizer and political. It cost him his job. A different world. He rode the rails during the great depression. St Paul was the wild west. Capone, Ma Barker and all the gangsters were allowed to hang out without fear of prosecution in St Paul as long as they did everything illegal outside the city limits...Usually in Mpls. Dad described the speakeasys...Slot machines along the walls. The buck machines as you walk in. Then the quarter, dime, nickle, and penny slots as you go towards the exit. My grandpa did hard time at Leavenworth for bootlegging. My impression is dad was involved in running the hooch. So the books paint a rather whitewashed picture of the organizers. They were dealing with ruthless "business owners". Think of the dishonest bastard managers at UPS but with more power. So the workers challenging their power needed to be ruthless as well. Who were the real criminals? Society favored the men with money. Cops were enforcers. [/QUOTE]
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