Charles LeRoy Lewis - Special Collections - University of Baltimore

LEWIS #099 2:2:60
the city is buy your insurance through me. If you don't
have your insurance through me, you don't run a truck
there. And if you drop that insurance, you're out - I
don't mean to be nasty on such cold facts. That's what
they have rackets - they've always.had some way or other to
do it, Old days I don't know just how to do it, but in
late years it's been mostly through insurance on trucks and
stuff like that or your employees.
Harvey: Well, what was the relationship do you know of
Prank Robey to Jack Pollack?
Lewis: Just that they were in the same party. They were
opposite each other. Frank wasn't in with Robey at all.
Harvey: You mean Robey wasn't in with Pollack at all.
Lewis: That's sight. Robey had his watchers at the polls,
pollack had his, Had to run us around. when I first
went to the polls Jack Pollack sent men to every polling
places to help you get the polling machines and stuff set
up. And they all would come around with coffee. And then
Keller, he come around later on w ith coffee and sandwiches.
And it was a good thing; people don't realize it, but you
got to get up them days when it used to be 6 o'clock. That
meant you had to get there by 5 to get in there by 6 and
it takes you a good hour to get everything ready ta operate.
Hawes : Did Robey ever openly do anything to oppose
Pollack?
Lewis: Do what?
awes : Oppose Pollack?