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cleaners

cleaners \cleaners\ n. a shop where dry cleaning is done.

Syn: dry cleaners, laundry, laundry shop.

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cleaners

n. (plural of cleaner English)

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cleaners

n. shop where dry cleaning is done [syn: dry cleaners]

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Cleaners (TV series)

Cleaners is an American action series directed by Paul Leyden, and writing by Paul Leyden and Morgan O'Neill. The series stars Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gina Gershon, Emily Osment, David Arquette, Missi Pyle and Laura Alemán, and premiered on Crackle on October 3, 2013. On May 3, 2014, the series was renewed for a second season.

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Rosman refused and suffered the aforementioned bombing of his Famous Cleaners and Dyers plant.

Contents Acknowledgments Preface chapter 1 Origins of the Purple Gang 1902-1919 chapter 2 The Birth of the Oakland Sugar House Gang 1922-1926 chapter 3 The Murder of Johnny Reid 1920-1926 chapter 4 The Milaflores Apartment Massacre 1927 chapter 5 The Murder of Vivian Welch 1928 chapter 6 The Cleaners and Dyers War 1925-1928 chapter 7 The St.

This event was occurring at the same time that Charles Jacoby, vice president of Jacoby's French Cleaners and Dyers, and ten associates of the Oakland Sugar House Gang, now being called Purple Gangsters by the local press, were indicted and held for trial on charges of extortion.

Garvin blamed the recent spurt in extortion attempts on the gangsters' desire to develop a defense fund to cover legal costs incurred by the Purple gangster defendants in the Cleaners and Dyers extortion case.

They were hired as muscle for a racketeer-operated trade organization called the Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers Association.

Martel persuaded independent shops to join the Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers union, and those who declined suffered the consequences that a visit by the Purples could bring.

Chapter 6 The Cleaners and Dyers War "Rounded up and waiting for trial, are a bunch of Jacoby's terrorists, the so called 'Purple Gang.

On the floor against the back seat was the body of Samuel Polakoff, vice president of the Onion Cleaners and Dyers Company of Detroit.

More importantly he was the representative of the Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers Association, and the last man in the 1925 trade war to be "taken for a ride.

The signifigance of Polakoff's murder was that it finally broke the code of silence that enabled the Purples to dominate the cleaners and dyers for so long.

They told police that there were twenty other independent Cleaners and Dyers who had been harrassed by death threats and bombings, and blamed the situation on Jacoby and the Purple Gang.

The arrests culminated in the trial that not only ended the Cleaners and Dyers War, but exposed organized crime's pivotal role in the famous labor conflict.

In the Cleaners and Dyers War the legitimate business institution was the Detroit Federation of Labor.

Within three weeks, the largest Detroit area cleaning plants were members of the newly formed Wholesale Cleaners and Dyers Association.

Chicago leader Abrams promised a general price increase to end price wars if the cleaners and dyers got together and unionized their plants.