SECRET SOCIETIES

“UNITED FOR CRIME”

The Black Hand — Mafia —

Camorra

— and Murder I; ncor porated

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By

TOM MERRIMAN
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ANCOUVER and other parts of
Canada may have inherited an
evil legacy from the Old World.
Reporting the gangster-type slaying of
dapper Danny Brent in Vancouver in
what is suspected as a fight for control
of the multi-million dollar drug traffic
of the West Coast, newspapers say:—

“Brent’s death might be connected
with a recent visit to Vancouver of
members of Italy’s dread Mafia.”

There are many who will scoff. The
Mafia, the Black Hand and other

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Gangster-style killing of suspected narcotic whole-
saler in Vancouver raises question as to whether
sinister power of European-born Secret Criminal
Societies 1s being channeled to Canada via U.S.
racket syndicates.

secret criminal societies, which had
long and successful reigns of terror in
Europe in the eighteen hundreds and
the early part of this century, are
dead they will tell you.

Pattern for Today’s Crime

Whether the Mafia is dead or not
may be a matter of dispute.

There is little doubt, however, that
it has formed the pattern for today’s
organized crime on the American con-
tinent which led to formation of syn-
dicates of gangsters and the recently-
established “Murder Incorporated.”

“United for Crime” was the keynote
of the old European Secret Societies
and is the foundation of the crime
leaders of today.

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The Mafia sprang into being in
Sicily in the middle of the nineteenth
century. It spread its operations to the
United States through members of the
secret society who emigrated to that
country around 1890. The society was
based on the principle of “Unity in
Crime.”

Robbery, Extortion Brought to
New World

The Italians and Sicilians who first
operated in the U.S. brought the same
methods of robbery and extortion to
the New World.

Their descendants or countrymen
of a later generation seemed to have
learned from them the rudiments of
working in gangs; the value of operat-
ing in numbers; or reprisals on mem-

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