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INVOLVrIIENT OF JACK RUBY IN UNION KILLING IN 1939
Jack Ruby, who was then known as Jack Rubenstein,
was employed by Local 20467 of the Scrap rran and Junk Handler
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Union in Chicago, Illinois, from 1937 to 1940 am a union
organizer.
Attorney Leon Cooke, who wale the union's financial
secretary, was shot on December 1, 1939, by the union's
president, John Martin. Cooke died of the wounds on
January 5, 1910. Martin was subsequently acquitted on the
ground of self-defense.
Ruby had been a friend of Cooke's. Indications
were that after the killing, Ruby was so upset that he was
unable to devote himself further to union activities and left
its employ.
Information regarding this is on page 718 of the
"warren Commission Report' (attached).
Commission Exhibit 1235 (attached) is an PHI investi-
gative insert which contains information that an extensive
search of the records of the Chicago Police Department did
sot reflect any reference to John Martin, Jack Ruby or
Rubenstein, or to the murder of Leon Cook....
Conrission Exhibit 1236 (attached), contains the
results of a November 25, 1963, check of the records of the
'Chicago Tribune" newspaper morgue by the 715/. An article
was found which stated Cook died on January 5, 1940. It
states that Cook went to the union offices oa December 9,
1939, and while talking to Martin, was shot as a result of
an argument involving the amount of pay Oven to union
members. The article points out that Cook went to the
hospital under his own power and gave a 'statement to the
effect that while talking with Martin, Martin became
angry, pulled a gun and shot him. In his trial, Martin
maintained that he shot Cook in self-defense as it was
Cook who had the gun. Martin's secretary testified she
saw the two man arguing and struggling, but could mot see
who had the gun or how it was fired.
This article states that much of the Laformatioa
about this matter Omen from Jack Rubenstein on December 9,
1939.
A second article reports that on January 16, 1940,
Martin was freed of the Charges of murdering Cook_.
count prices.)" One of his closest. Chicago friends stated that Ruby's
sales and promotions were "shady" but "legitimate." '4* - . „
Labor union activitie*.—Ruby reported that in "about 1937" he be-
came active in Local 20467 of the Scrap Iron and Junk Handlers
'Union)" At this time, his friend, attorney Leon Cooke, was the
local's financial secretary.'" Records provided by the Social Security
Admini_RTation indicate that Ruby was employed by the union from
late 1937 until early 1940; '" he worked as a union organizer and nego-
tiated with employers on its behalf."' On December 8, 1939, the union's president, John Martin, shot
Cooke, who died of gunshot wounds on January 5, 1940; Martin was
subsequently acquitted on the ground of self-defense.'" Although a
Jack Rubenstein is mentioned in the minutes of a union meeting on
February 2, 1940,1" and Ruby is reported to have said after Cooke's
death that he wanted to "take over" the union,'" the evidence indicates
that Ruby was so upset by Cooke's death that he was unable to devote
him .if further to union activities and left its employ."s Ruby re-
ported that after Cooke's death he adopted the middle name "Leon,"
which be used only infrequently, in memory of his friend.'"
Since Ruby was the ultimate source of all but one of these accounts,"
other descriptions of Ruby's separation from the union cannot with
certainty be deemed inaccurate. These reports indicated that Ruby
might have been forced out of the union by a criminal group, or might
have left because he lacked the emotional stability necessary for sucess-
f-u.1 labor net or because he felt he was not earning enough
money with the union.' Although the AFL–CIO investigated the ethical practices of kcal
2€467. in 19r,6, placed the local in trusteeship, and suspended Paul
Dorfman. who succeeded Martin and Cooke, there is no evidence that
Ruby's union activities were connected with Chicago's criminal de-
ment.'n Several longtime members of the union reported that it had
a good rtpatation when Ruby was affiliated with it "" and employers
who neguiated with it have given no indication that it had criminal
con.nectio,-..s.1" Subrteril employment. —In 1941, Ruby and Harry Epstein or- .
ganized t.iie Spartan Novelty Co., a small firm that sold in various
northeaAena States small cedar chests containing candy and gambling
devices kr....wn as punchboards."* Earl Ruby and two of Jack Ruby's
friends, \firtin Gimpel and Martin Shargol, were also associated in
this venrare. The group had no fixed addresses, hying in hotels.'
Late in 1941. Jack Ruby returned to Chicago. where he continued
his punch board business through the niails.'" Following the Decem-
ber 7, attack on Pearl Harbor, he and several friends decided
to design and sell plaques commemorating the Day of Infamy. How-
ever, the venture was impeded by Ruby's perfectionistic approach to
details of design which resulted in numerous production delays.'"
By the time Ruby's copyrighted plaque "4 was finally ready for sale,
the market was Hooded with similar items'" At about this time,
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INSIDE LABOR Release on 1:tec
By Victor Riesel Dispatched 10/14/75
The Untouchables:
Where Congressional Probe of
Jack Ruby Could Lead
WASHINGTON -- There are many money-making cult
s
not the least of which is that of the assassin
ation
11
worshippers. This cult now is cheering into
action a congressional committee's probe of Ja
ck
Ruby, the late small-time Dallas hood (a Chica
go transplant)
who killed Lee Harvey Oswald, who murdered Jac
k Kennedy
according to two of the world's most scientifi
c ballistic
experts.
Bravo to the investigation. It will disappoi
nt the
cult. But if the controlling investigative-p
rone
Congressmen and women persist in following all
leads --
they'll get to an amazing conglomerate of vio
lence-
-venders such as the Capone mob. And to the
late Jimmy
Hoffa. And to his late buddy, the thick-neck
ed Paul
"Red" Dorfman, whose son Allen has for years m
ade
millions of dollars out of the now heavily inv
estigated
Teamsters Central States, South East, South We
st pension
fund. Chicago-based, of course.
Inside Labor - 0/14/75 2
At this point I do believe the congressional
committee will lose ardor, steam and indignation. The
probe could uncover political ramifications -- on the
majority's own side.
It's a simple trail they'll find unwinding: back
in 1938 somebody staked Jack Ruby to a few bucks so he
could go into the waste material handlers' union business.
He got what's called an AFL federal local charter (now
out of existence). Junk, waste-handling and garbage
meats are lucrative items. So one day Ruby's union
associate found himself dead. Ruby then was secretary-
-treasurer. Then he got word from the "mob." Get out.
He did. Soon Paul "Red" Dorfman was the federal local's
secretary-treasurer. And Ruby got himself a Dallas bar
close to the only two tolerable hotels in the center of
town. Ruby got to be a police buff. He was not an FBI
undercover man. As a bar owner he heard things and an
FBI agent would drop around occasionally with a question
or two.
Meanwhile Red Dorfman prospered in Chicago.
Why not? According to at least one federal report he
was close to the Al Capone mob. And a liaison between
Inside Labor 10/14/75 x x x beg. . Page 3
it and some old-time labor people and political circles.
Red was an effective money-raiser for the powers that
were, locally and nationally.
Red Dorfman was accepted and wooed. During the
1951 AFL San Francisco convention he was lionized in the
posh Fairmount Hotel. He was the harbinger of a new
day and new character who had just become a Teamsters
vice president -- James Riddle Hoffa. One evening Dorfman
got a little rough in one corridor encounter with
someone who didn't happen to know Jimmy at the time but
had reflected on his muscle days in Detroit, Minneapolis,
and a foray into Miami.
"Jimmy's my buddy, my partner," Dorfman said
truculently.
• This was followed by a swift one-two query: "Do
you think we're bums?"
Affirmative. But since the Fairmount was a
busy hotel, and deservedly prestigious, Dorfman didn't
swing, he just pushed, grunting, "No one can say that
about my partner Jimmy."
There was what Karl Marx called an economic determinism
co-mingled with this fraternal bond. Hoffa was rising
Inside Labor - 10/14/75 x x x risinc Page 4
swiftly. Soon he was able to put Allen Dorfman virtually
in charge of overseeing multi-million-dollar loans from
the big Central States pension fund, (now totalling
about $1.4 billion) and now the most heavily investigated
target in government law agencies.
Dorfman also was close to some of the tough
syndicate men in the East -- namely the so-called Luchese
(Three Fingers Brown) Mafia crowd.
This mob co-mingled with the racket crowd in the
strategic trucking industry -- which will soon be exposed
by Bill Aronwald, chief of the Justice Department anti-
-organized crime strike force in New York's southern
district. The grand jury is about to hand down more
indictments.
• But back to Paul Dorfman, whom Jack Ruby always
feared. Dorfman used to work out of the Hampshire House
on New York's Central Park South. Nothing small or
miserly about Red. He was big-time even after the
AFL-CIO lifted his charter in 1957 and turned the field
over to one of its big affiliates. Dorfman sure had power
across the Northeast and Midwest states. What the
Congressional committee can do even at this late date is to
Inside Labor - .0/14/75
x x x to age 5
dig into that power. If we're going back to 1963 and
Jack Ruby, this might be the choice chance to shovel into
long-buried channels -- used by some of the nation's
most powerful combines.
Allen Dorfman, still of Chicago, was convicted in
1972 for taking finder's fee kickbacks in the winning of
loans from the big Central States fund.
There's all that money in the central pension fund
-- and yet the congressional subcommittee is wasting time
in futile digging into Jack Ruby, the police "go-for."
Meaning he would bring in coffee and delicatessen sandwiches.
Ruby wasn't involved in any "cut out" part of an assassination
plot. He had just come in from the Western Union
telegraph office that traumatic afternoon.
Had he remained a few minutes longer or arrived
earlier he'd have seen Oswald's backside going into the
police car. Instead, Ruby milled around down in the
police garage ramp bottom. He shot spontaneously --
out of religious fervor thinking himself an avenging
"angel" with flaming bullet.
It's Ruby's Chicago connections, many of them dead
ng doubt, which would give this nation a fascinating
Inside Labor - :0/14/75
x x x fasciing Page 6
glimpse into an era which has been so romantically covered
by the movies. One more thought: if that Chicago
political machine had not been so powerful in 1960
-- and if Dick Nixon had won a few more Midwestern
electoral votes -- history would have been different for
the tragic Kennedys.
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A - Mr. Cooks 1 - Mt. O'Connell
- Kr. Mettles 1 - Kr. Mints 1 .7 Mr. Moore 1.- Mr. Mannall
The kttorney General
Director, FBI
SUBCOAITTEE ON CIVIL AND
CONSTITDTIORAL RIGHTS
HOUSe. CONVIITTEE ON
THE JUDICIARY
Fo
Mere is enclosed herewith for approval and
forwarding to the above-captioned Subcommittee the
original of a memorandum which constitutes the FBI's
response to the portion of a letter of October
from the Su
A oopy of the memorandum is being fez-wished
you for your records.
2043reSSiona
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anclosures (2)
1 - The Deputy Attention:
Attorney General Kr. Michael M. Skahsen, Jr.
Special Counsel for Intelligence Coordination
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1 - Kr. Callahan - Mr. Jeakins
1 Mr. Adams 1 - Mr. Gallagher 1 - Mr. COCoenell 1 -Mr. Cooke _ Mr. Nettles - Mr. Mints
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November 24r, 1975
SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL AND CONST/TUTIONAL RIGHTS SOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
RE: CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORT NUMBER 55513
By letter of October 29, 1975, the
Edwards, Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil and
Ri•hts, House Comm
The cago Po oft
par nt advises that t wo •ssible to attempt to
retrieve a file based on its number, as report numbers are
recurrent annually and are not used for indexing purposes.
Their Report Number 55113 was located, however, on October 22,
1975, in a packet assembled in response to a November 25, 1963,
letter from the Dallas, Texas, Police Department. This Report
Number 55113 applies to the substance of the inquiry. The
detective report is also included in this packet. No 'tickler*
or other notation was found on any of the files of the Chicago
Police Department in this natter asking that the PEI be notified
if any inquiries or requests were made concerning the files.
Additionally, James McGuire, Director of Records, Chicago Police
Department, has advised that be is unaware of any such stop or
notation.
Ift.:Ayl (13) NOTE: See Page 2
SUBCOMMITTEE ON CIVIL AND
CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
No information pertaining to any such "tickler' or
notation ever being placed on the Chicago Police Department
files pertaining to this matter is known to FBI Headquarters
or the Chicago Field Office.
Director McGuire was advised that the FBI had
caused Chicago Police Department records to be checked on
November 27, 1963, regarding John Martin, Jack Ruby (and
Rubenstein), and the murder of Leon Cooke; and no record
had been found identifiable with any of them. Re stated the
reason a record check regarding Martin was negative on
November 27, 1963, was that Martin was not arrested and
therefore would not have been indexed. Ruby (Rubenstein)
and Cooke would not have been indexed since names of witnesses
and victims were not indexed in 1939.
%0TL: See memoranda's to the Attorney General, dated
captione °Subcor-zittee on Civil and Constitutional
Riqhts, House Comnsittee on the Judiciary."
A previous Liim dated 11/7/75, was prepared in this
sitter which include", PD-302s pertaining to the checks
conductor,: at the Chicago Police Department. SA Paul V. Daly,
Legal Counsel Division, hes advised that a decision has been
made not to subrsit YD-102s to the Subcommittee. Accordingly,
this current laktwas prepared as a replacement.
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Jr. 1 - The Deputy Attorney General Attention: Mr. Michael E. Shaheen
Special Counsel for . Intelligence Coordinat
Enclosures #4}
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• • •
The1\torney General
Diractdt, FRI
SURCOMMIT ON CIVIL AND COaSTITUTIOT RIGHTS ROUSE CO ITT ON THE JUDICIARY
, sr. Callahan 1 ..- Mr. Janata& 1 - J. Adams 1 -Gallegker. - NUN O'Comaell .. Kr. Cook: - Pr. Mettles - M. Miats
1 - hr. Moore 1 - Kr. Mansell
Movember4; 1975
__ There is s lased herewith for approval and
forwarding to the AboVe7captioned Subcommittee the original
1-4f- -; of a memorandum which oonstitutes
the FBI's response to th portion of • letter of
October 29 1975 from th\
A copy of the um 4mm+-fito-etteehmenti
is being furnished you for your *cord'.
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November V, 1975
SUBCOMMITTEE ON (ANIL AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
RE: CHICAGO POLICE DEPARTMENT REPORT NUMBER 55513
By letter of October 29, 1975, the Honorable Don
Edwards, Chairman, Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional
Rights, House Committee on the Judiciary, requested certain
material and information to augment the record of the
"rte oed,Srd e 6Copt:
Attached is a memorandum prepared by the FBI,
Chicago, Illinois, on October is re nsive
to that
e c memorandum, cago o f co
Department advises that it would be impossible to attempt
to retrieve a file based on its number.. Their Report Number
55113 was located, however, in a packet assembled in response
to a November 25, 1963, letter from the Dallas, Texas, Police
Department. This Report Number 55113 applies to the
:substance of the inquiry. No "tickler" or other notation
was found on any of the files of the Chicago Police Department
in this matter asking that the FBI be notified if any
inquiries or requests were made concerning the files.
Enclosure NOTE, gee Page 2 .
SUBC0'1,1=1TE c" CrviL p_np
C0';STITUTIONAL PIGHTf; BO S' CWTITTFE OV
THE JUDICIARY
It is realized that some of the material contained
in the attached October 30, 1975, memorandum is illegible.
The copies of this material received from the Chicago Police
Department were likewise of a poor quality and difficult
to reproduce. Thera does appear to be sufficient legible
material, however, to fulfill the Subcomnittee's request.
MOTE: See memorandum to the Attorney General, dated
11/7/75, captioned 'Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional
Rights, Rouse Committee on the Judiciary,' MENdyl.
Inclosed Chicago letterhead memorandum of 10/30/75,
was forwarded to Bureau by airtel of sane date. The
investigation contained therein was conducted on instructions
of ruin) followinc teetiamony of Mr. Adams on 10/21/75.
Other requests contaimeii in 101/29/75, letter from the
Suhcolinittee are being handled senarately.
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