Abadinsky says that Louis ("Lepke") Buchalter revolutionized labor racketeering. Tell the main features of what he did that was revolutionary

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Together with Jacob ("Gurrah") Shapiro, and as part of Benjamin ("Dopey") Fein's "muscle" organization, Buchalter infiltrated the unions and management he was hired by, ending up dominating many of the industries into which they had been invited. "Instead of using his sluggers and gunmen to terrorize labor unions during strike periods, Lepke worked them directly into the unions. By threat and by violence they controlled one local after another" (Berger 1944: 30). Manufacturers who hired Lepke to deal with the unions "soon found themselves wriggling helplessly in the grip of Lepke's smooth but deadly organization. He moved in on them as he had on the unions" (Berger 1944: 20).

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