The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1920, Page 1

) Order in Advance from Your Newsdealer : To-Night’s Weather-——PROBABLY RAIN, MMW To Be Sure of Getting | The Evening World, ALL STREET EXPLOSION SOLVED; BOMB IN BUILDING TRADE GRAFT SET IN REVENGE UPON BRINDELL Che | a Books Open to All,” VOL. LXI. “NO, 21 86—DAILY. si ) by The Press Publishing © New York World). Srene of the Wall St. Explosion That Killed 39 Persons; Shack in Foreground at Which Bomb Was to Be Set Off | H MAYOR DEFENDS ACTION OF ADMINISTRATION ON STAND AT DRIVER i Me Loay ey, AT WAITS 4 Shee VAAN Fie Moa LEAVE FROM COR.OF wail i= SWANN AND U.S. GOVERNMEEN ACT ON EVENING WORLD'S GRAFT INQUIRY SOLUTION OF BOMB EXPLOSIO | | is Me’ 2 . 1 the Nght of protecting the PY"C| District Attorney to Call G and exploitation of dishonest labor His Memory Poor as to Date of iI istrict Atte mey to Call rand tics yg tareems res ern John T, Heitrick’s i was somewha | Jury on Proof Crime Was | announcea it was basing a new inde nine ' ns and a pendent investigation of the acct Letter. | c ints Due to Lat jor Feud. on The Evening World's disclosure The hearing was held in the room _ and had already ordered men to New READS FOR TWO HOURS, lor tne Hoard of Estimate ‘| POLICE HEADS SILENT.| York trom the Washington head |much smaller than the quartery of the Investigating Bu . Chamber. wt previ 8 he : reau. New York Police Headqua Jad Praised Untermyer for Aid} nave had. The Boa -| Department of Justice to Send] ters went into a Chinese allence AAT 7 a dermen using its own More Me re to Best I am very much impressed wi Lawyers Organized for Bon Aore Men Here te Begin Nereis Action. som was tilled New Inquiry. ch The Evening Wor \* in the corridor lished,” said Judge Swanr Mayor H wo] at District Attorney Swann acted im-|first version of the was a rippin of y edintely this afternoon after read. | Which checks at every px ye ‘ding TOF) When the Mayor entered the ae : : scattered facts alrendy collected dy fe Lochkw ‘ nvestigat-|1¢ was promptly hushed by serge ng The } & World's proofs that! investigators. a buildin 1 nding to] at-art the Wa eet explosion of Sept. 16] Judge Swann said the Extraordin tt - t nd r was th max of a foud in the ranks) Grand Jury whiel: was impanelled tv an \ i 1 disorgunized ‘by the graft] investigate 2 4 fix ; criminal Mame nf ite was ” : . : 7 till In existence, and that he would : ' ‘ ; Classified Advertisers ||| °\\\ ra ny ' er Evening V 1 1 Mt avr to Important! in geting bd { io estigatiot Ty inday World should “bet | asmred fo The World office | r has learned wou! 1 1 9 | »|]} On or Before Friday ||| ' ‘ ' >. Me 9 | Judge Swann explained that a the Mayor wa ; Preceding Publication erent sauanditccat the ; tte ||] Giassifed Adoertisements Received form of disconnected facta : Re een AFTER 8 A. M, ' : Ms i For pubiication the following day ||! had be . gmphaaize the fact | EARLY COPY whieh mix ; Pesriok toind Receives the Preference. most impc bi jments and w THE WORLD. . jake o cave | { which \ (Continued on Dightecnth Page.) * t NEW YORK, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, orld, To:-Morrow's Weather—RAIN AND COLDER. fa INA “Circulation Books Open to All.” | v2 1920. Entered ax Second-Ciaas Matter Post Office, N. ¥ _ PRICE THREE | CENTS Now York, NOT ANARCHISTS, BUT MEN BLACKJACKED OUT OF JOBS Members of Regular Union Kicked, Off the Stock Exchange Annex and Every Other Building Work in New York—Half Starved by Months of Idleness, Appeals to Fellow Unionistsand tothe Mayor Unheeded — Frenzied Workmen or Sympathizers Planned Explo- sion to Injure or Kill at Noon) Hour 85 Brindell Workers in the Stock Exchange Annex—House- wreckers’ Union, as a Union, Not Responsible; Work of Individuals. Before the dust clouds had fairly settled after the explosion at Wall and Broad Streets between J. P. Morgan & Co.’s Building and the United States Assay Office Sept. 16, 1920, The Evening World It has not flagged. It has now of justice demand that began an independent investigation, Jisclosures in which the interests should share. official investigations by Federal and city authority »sulted in the general public Vhe the citizens and financial in- 4 private agencies hired by private stitutions have devoted themselves to a search for fanatical assassins seeking a shining mark in a crowd in which prominent persons were rtain to be present or to force the proof of a great anarchist or revolutionary terrorist conspiracy. These investigations, bringing into view countless details of facts, have struck a dead centre in their progress, The Evening World here presents proof that 1,800 men, nearly all foreign born, sober, industrious, efficient and well-disciplined— “The Polish ranko's Union"—have within a space of eighteen months been subjected to an amazing conspiracy of greed and injus- tice, and the explosion was the culmination of this tyranny. The building trades graft was responsible for the crime. The Evening Worla does not charge the union, as a union, with responsibility. It w.s the work of individuals, possibly inside the union, possibly the work ¢ Further proofs are presented that the wrath and resentment of these working men and their fellows who knew of their tragic losing fight to opportunit, Brindell, di wrecking cc The rr House Wreckers’ Local No. 95, known recently also as Union” and sympathizers avert vagraney and starvation in days of overflowing labor was centred not only on their arch oppressor Robert P, the Labor Trades Council, but upon house- f September. : Brindell-organized men for ar or the city author Labor and t had learned strike in th rying Exchan Tt At that time their feeling against was at its bitteres. Their last resource nut of their straits had failed. Their appeals to way es, to affiliated unions, to the American Federation They fair play had among the contractors had failed not even the legal right to declare a ge: dustry, At that time Albert A. Volk was ition of the buildings on the site of the Stock ig Annex at Broad and Wall Streets. presented additional reasons for be! é build on the ¢ ing that vio. with teak BUILDING GRAFT CAUSED EXPLOSION. A ramshackle wagon with a red underbody, drawn by a scrawny bay horse, worked slowly through Wall Street towards Broad from William just before noon Sept. 16. In the wagon was a miscellancous The driver of wagon was a big stolid Pole; he had been told to deliver the stu to Albert A, Volk and Company Stock Exchange Annex site, before 12 o'clock was in his load In the wagon was @ monster bomb of dynamite, about ybich load of boxes and barrels and Jarge metal cans the uff on nthe the wagon the contractors He did not kn ow what Regular Union Men Blackjacked and Injured Until Forced to Quit to Save Lives—Within Three Weeks, Attempt Made to Assas- sinate Foreman -Who Could Identify Owner and Driver of the Bomb Wagon—Amazing Record of Oppression by Brindell Agents —The Police, U.S. Secret Service and Detective Agencies Now on the Hunt—District Attorney Swann Takes Up the Révelations Made by The Evening World. broken pieces of cast Iron sashwoights had been packed. A clockwork device to set off the bomb had been adjusted to do ite work at two minutes after 12 o'clock. The dynamite had been stolen from ghe stores of wrecking and excavating contractors; the sashweights bad been gathered from the junk pile of @ building wrecker's yard The driver could not go with his wagon directly to the openings in the high board fence which surrounded the littered site of the pro- posed trafic he stopped in front of the Axsay Office, just east of the United States Sub-Treasury new building Under police rules and out of the swirl of vehicle and pedestrian traMe at the Broad and Wall Street crossing. Kven Contractor Volk's trucks constantly arriv- ing through Wall Street were subject to this regulation Leaving his wagon, as was also the rule for the drivers of all trucks and delivery carts approaching the demolition and excavation work, the driver was sent afoot across the crowded crossing to find out where he was desired to place his load. This regulation reduced the time by which the street was to be obstructed by wagons waiting to be unloaded or loaded. DRIVER LEAVES WAGON NEAR NEW BUILDING, Leaving his horse and wagon behind him, the driver crossed to the corner where there was a rough contractor's shack half way down the partly demolished old building which Volk's men were tearing down, The shack was on the heavy timbered bridge or shelter built over the sidewalk to protect pedestrians from falling plecea of glass, stone, brick and plaster as the walls above were pulled to pleces, Nobody paid any attention to the driver. Ile was somewhat be- wildered, He was fn the way of men preparing to quit work for the noon hour and, though he did not know it, the load he was trying to deliver had not been ordered and was not expected by the foreman and watchmen; they were pestered by his questions. He could pot tell them what he had nor from whom it came. His only instructions were to “deliver it on the Job at Broad and Wall Streets” and “get it there before 12 o'clock." So they could not tell him whether to back up his cart at the New Street or the Broad Street side of the lot, They” brushed him aside and told him to ask somebody else, Their indifference and incivility to him saved that driver's life and their own. For, leas than two minutes after twelve, when the whistle on the engine down in the hole had shrilled {ts signal for the lunch hour and the etghty-fve workers for Volk were swarming up to the street from the cellar and swartning down from ihe few low walls on which they were still working with crowbars and sledge hammers, there came a flash and a glare and the deadly blast of the great detona- tion which shook half a city The load on the driver's wagon had blown up, The ticking ma chine fn the centre of the dynamite and the broken sash weights had done its work Twenty-five persons were lying dead in the streets One hundred and fifty men and women were lying stunned and broken on the sidewalks, in the middle of the streets, in offices, Of these fourteen were so hurt that they died of their injuries, increasing the nu f fatalities to thirty-nine. Damage to buildings amount- Ing te had been done } hte had been hurled about Wall and Broad reet 1 bate from the head of 4 Th-centimetre shell. r d been blown in as though taude of cardboard. Great ot wore knocked from stone cornices high in air There Was not a pane of giass left whole in any building {n line of the im- pact of conrussion for three blocks in either direction, The walls of the Assay Off © and of the J. P, Morgan & Co. offices, just opposite, were Pitted and ripped by bits of steel. An automobile had heen overturned and partly burned by the of flame which rode the instan- if the explosion. blast nusly expanding ring Tho bay horse which had been drawing the ramshackle wagon with the red underbouy lay #lewed in a heap, thirty feet from the spot where he haa been left to await the return of the driver; his hind- ch ee 3 ee ee ree - en a -