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Jock Blanchard

Jock Blanchard was a United Dockworkers union leader from New Orleans.

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Jock Blanchard was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and he found employment as a dock worker. He was a member of United Dockworkers Local 32, and he was forced to give money to Vito Scaletta's man Andy Turetto due to the union's American Mafia connections. In 1968, Michael Grecco took over River Row and forced the dockworkers to pay dues unless they wanted for their work permits to be revoked. Clay took down Turetto's racket and bettered the conditions of the dock workers, with Scaletta returning to leading River Row.

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