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1960-03-31

U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, S. Rept. 86-1139

Final Report of the McClellan Committee, Part 4, S. Rept. 86-1139 (March 1960): the coin-operated machine industry

Part 4 of the committee's final report, ordered printed 31 March 1960, on jukeboxes, pinball and vending machines. It opens: "Alarming examples of criminal domination of legitimate business achieved by using corrupt unions keynoted the committee's extensive hearings."

Date
1960-03-31
Kind
hearing
Source
U.S. Government Publishing Office, govinfo: U.S. Congressional Serial Set, S. Rept. 86-1139
Retrieved
2026-10-12
Docket
S. Rept. No. 1139, 86th Cong., 2d sess., Part 4 (1960)
Rights
A report of the United States Senate, printed by the Government Printing Office. Public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. § 105. Read from the govinfo Serial Set PDF. No page image is stored here.

Part 4 of the final report was ordered printed on 31 March 1960. It covers the committee’s hearings on “the coin-operated music, amusement, and cigarette vending machine industry” (from p. 733), with findings (p. 855), a summary of the committee’s activities (p. 867) and acknowledgments.

The introduction reads: “Alarming examples of criminal domination of legitimate business achieved by using corrupt unions keynoted the committee’s extensive hearings on the nationwide conduct of the coin-operated music, amusement, and cigarette vending machine business.” It sorts the machines into groups, beginning with gambling devices, and says the committee learned that some gambling machines “were produced primarily in the Chicago area and shipped in quantity throughout the Nation”; the most widely distributed was “the ‘payoff’ pinball.”

Only the front matter and the opening of the introduction were read for this page. The New Orleans hearings (Part 48) feed this chapter, but the pages that discuss them have not been read.

itemMcClellan Committee hearings, Part 48: coin-operated machines in the New Orleans area (23 March to 15 April 1959)The committee's study of the coin-machine business around New Orleans, "particularly with reference to operations in Jefferson Parish." The chairman said key racket figures controlled locations "through threats, coercion, and in some cases through alliances with corrupt public officials, as we expect the evidence to show."itemFinal Report of the McClellan Committee, Part 3, S. Rept. 86-1139 (March 1960): the criminal syndicate, and HoffaPart 3 of the committee's final report, ordered printed 28 March 1960. It finds that "underworld infiltration of business and labor is a national problem" and restates its findings on James R. Hoffa, adding that it had found him "faithless to the members of his own union."itemSenate Rackets Committee hearing on jukeboxes, 10 February 1959 (Library of Congress)U.S. News & World Report photograph by Marion S. Trikosko of senators of the Senate Rackets Committee and counsel Robert F. Kennedy at a hearing on organized crime and jukeboxes, 10 February 1959. A copy is stored here.