[PRCo] Corruption isn't new!!!

[Fred Schneider]

I WISH THE ENTIRE STORY WAS THERE BUT CERTAIN PAGES WERE MISSING.   INTERESTING POINT IS THAT THE MAYOR WAS FURLOUGHING PEOPLE RIGHT AND LEFT FOR 30 DAYS AT A TIME TO SAVE MONEY IN THE DEPRESSION BUT HERE HE APPOINTS PEOPLE TO A COMMITTEE THAT ISN'T DOING ANYTHING.   PERHAPS THEY HAVE A WAY TO GET SOMETHING ON THE SIDE AND HE IS REWARDING FRIENDS?   YES, I KNOW IM SUSPICIOUS BUT THE SUBWAY COMMITTEE HASN'T DONE ANYTHING SINCE 1925.  WHY DOES IT NEED PEOPLE?  


http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fAAdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZY4EAAAAIBAJ&pg=4506%2C1163323

 Pittsburgh Press, January 5, 1935, page 1

 [PITTSBURGH] MAYOR APPOINTS PASTOR, RACKET FIGURE TO BOARD

 ‘Hunky Joe’ Lewandowsky and Rev. Peter V. Tkach Names With William Landau to City Transit Commission

   “Hunky Joe” Lewandowski, racket figure and one-time South Side numbers baron, today was named a member of the [Pittsburgh] City Transit Commission by Mayor William N. McNair. 

    Also named on the Commission, created in 1925 to study and recommend plans for a downtown subway, were Rev. Peter V. Tkach and William Landau, whom the Mayor described as a real estate man “who fought the eviction battle” with him in the Hill District some time ago.

    The Mayor and “Hunky Joe” have become good friends since Mr. McNair took office.

    They got acquainted in South Side Police Court, where the Mayor once fined Joe $400.  Ust to show he had no hard feelings in the matter, the Mayor at Joe’s request, officiated at the civil marriage of Joe’s son during a big celebration on the South Side last November.  

    The Mayor said his purpose in filling the three vacancies on the Commission – jobs which carry no salary – is to have Winters Haydock, chief engineer of the Commission, and two other employes fired at once.

   Although such appointments have to be confirmed by City Council, the Mayor notified the two old members [continued on page 3 and page 3 is missing].