Labor Slugger Wars
The Labor Sluggers War was a 15-year period of gang wars among New York labor sluggers for control of labor racketeering from 1911 to 1927. This began in 1911 with the first war between "Dopey" Benny Fein and Joe "The Greaser" Rosenzweig against a coalition of smaller gangs and continuing on and off until the murder of Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen by Louis "Lepke" Buchalter and Gurrah Shapiro in 1927.
Read more about Labor Slugger Wars: Origin, Labor Slugger War: 1913-1917, Second Labor Sluggers War: 1918-1919, Third Labor Sluggers War of 1923, Fourth Labor Slugger War of 1927, Further Reading
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