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So the guy lost everything. Now th<strong>at</strong> he was<br />

blackballed he wasn't w<strong>or</strong>king nowhere.<br />

MR. HARMON: Exc<strong>us</strong>e me one second, Mr. Rispo,<br />

while we give the rep<strong>or</strong>ter a chance to change her paper<br />

and I would like to address <strong>you</strong>.<br />

<strong>If</strong> I can ask <strong>you</strong> one final question, Mr.<br />

Rispo. It sounds like <strong>you</strong> don't find th<strong>at</strong> the N<strong>at</strong>ional<br />

Lab<strong>or</strong> Rel<strong>at</strong>ions Board is effective where there is an<br />

<strong>or</strong>ganized crime influence in lab<strong>or</strong> racketeering. And I<br />

would like to draw <strong>you</strong>r <strong>at</strong>tention back to the problem<br />

th<strong>at</strong> <strong>you</strong> started disc<strong>us</strong>sing with the truck of live<br />

lobsters running around the block, and <strong>you</strong>r showing up<br />

on the scene saying <strong>you</strong> represented Local 107, and <strong>you</strong><br />

had a bunch of employees signed up when, in fact, <strong>you</strong><br />

had none and, in fact, <strong>you</strong> didn't represent Local 107.<br />

Can <strong>you</strong> make any suggestion to the Commission<br />

th<strong>at</strong> would permit very quick action to prevent these<br />

kinds of shakedown schemes?<br />

MR. RISPO: Well, the way we <strong>us</strong>ed to <strong>us</strong>e the<br />

law, all right, the way I would block the law, the same<br />

law th<strong>at</strong> we <strong>us</strong>ed to <strong>us</strong>e, see, in <strong>or</strong>der to strike a place<br />

and to get recognition <strong>you</strong> had to <strong>have</strong> <strong>at</strong> th<strong>at</strong> time it<br />

was 55 percent of the cards. And the company has to<br />

wait until they get a hearing with the NLRB and <strong>have</strong><br />

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