Table of Contents
Waterfront Gang Charts ix
Prologue: Gang Rule-A Longshoreman's Story xiii
1 Growing Pains 1
2 Let the Liquor Flow 7
3 1929: Robberies and More Arrests 11
4 1930: The Gangster's Great Depression 19
5 New Friends 23
6 The Gang's All Here 31
7 Rubel 43
8 The West Side Wars: The Trouble with Red and Tommy 51
9 The West Side Wars: Returning Fire 55
10 The West Side Wars: Reputations Are Made 65
11 The West Side Wars: On the Offensive 71
12 The West Side Wars: The End and The Beginning 85
13 Loose Ends 93
14 Loading 97
15 Boss Joe and The Boys 103
16 Spaghetti Dinners 113
17 Varick 119
18 Let the Good Times Roll 125
19 Ghosts From the Past 135
20 The Best of the West 145
21 1940 153
22 Coercion 161
23 In Florida We Trust 171
24 War Rations 177
25 The Rebels 181
26 61 Grove Street 189
27 The Trial 203
28 Troubles 209
29 Crime on the Waterfront 215
30 Condemned 223
31 Under Pressure 227
32 Blowing Up 231
33 A New Life 239
34 Crime Commission 243
35 War Zone 249
36 "Like Water Off My Back" 261
37 Top Hoodlum? 267
38 The Daily Grind 271
39 A Tangled Web 277
40 A Dentist, a Stockbroker and a Gangster 285
Acknowledgements 291
Selected Bibliography 293
Index 301