Pietro "Pete" Panto was an Italian American longshoreman and union activist who was murdered by the mob for speaking out and organizing against corrupt union leadership.

The Red Hook WaterStories team has not written an entry about him yet but here are some external links:

"Where Is Pete Panto? A union leader on the Brooklyn docks disappeared 81 years ago, presumably murdered by the mob." By Helene Stapinski.  The New York Times, 7/9/2022

Chi è Pete Panto?, bloggers.iitaly.org

"Pioneering Assassinated Longshoremen Union Activist Rests in Unmarked Grave," VNY La Voce di New York, February 26, 2022

Pete Panto, Wikipedia

In 2022, The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, City University of New York organizied a successful fundraiser to install a tombstone at the unmarked grave of assassinated labor activist Pietro “Pete” Panto. To raise funds they produced this video:
Final Resting Place: Murdered Activist Receives Headstone Through Donations, Currents News, 2024:
In 2024, the American Italian Cultural Roundtable presented Where Is Pete Panto? Memory and Activism in the Reclamation of a Working Class Hero: