The evening world. Newspaper, November 11, 1920, Page 3

7 = $= (Continued from Page 2.) = unvarying formula he uses in showing his opponent his band Dais (or three) Brindells! Kings! Damn them!” “EXPRESS HATRED FOR “KING” BRINDELL. Reporters from The Evening World have beard the expressivn in evety visit during a period of six weeks, %n contrast to their expressed | hatred for the organizer and leader of the rival union they delight in’ competing with each other to show thelr regard for Zaranko. They run to the door of his private ofice—great, clumsy courtiers—to open it before fim. They spring from their chairs with grins of pleasure when he culls. They tussel good naturedly for the privilege of running his errands, They beg for the privilege of being bis bodyguard and escort of honor when he goes down to the City Hall as a Lockwood Committee witness. They hang about him in the corridor outside the hearing. When he was on the witness staxd Oct. 28 and was asked to k out one or nore of them as witnesses to tell of their grievances against Brindel! and the contractors there was danger of a free fight for the honor of catching. their leader's eye. Zaranko is scarcely forty. He 1s thickset and clean shaven. He wears neckties and clothing which suggest the advertising pages of the fiction magazines in their “snap” end freshness of pattern. He speaks with boyish directness, clipping his sentences short. He is frankly proud of his men and their attitude toward him. A reporter for The Evening World was complimenting him Nov. 6 on the general appearance of his men, the good opinion of them ex- pressed by employers—even by those who were prevented by Brindell’s ruling trom using them any more. “My men are hard working. They are law-@biding,” he sald. “But they are out of jobs. Brindell has taken the bread from the tables in front of them and their wives and children, They are desperate, They flave been loyal to the union for years. But when in this fix, tho union cannot help them.” 1: is in the testimony of the Lockwood Committee that a contractor, Wallas, made an appeal to Hugh Frayne, Heutenant of Samuel Gompers, on behalf of Local No, 95 and was told “Nothing can be done with Brindell; he is a law unto himself.” y said the reporter to Zaranko, ‘these men ought to be able to take cite of themselves in many ways. They are all trained in rough. dangerous pursuits, You must have ‘hard-rock men,’ riggers. sailors, shorers, engineers, lumbertien, blacksmiths—" “Hey!” commanded Zaranko, sharply, his eyes narrowing. at once, “out that! There ain’ horgeshoer In our outfit. Never was one, What are you trying to do? Is some one trying to put the Wall Street explosion on some of my boys!” Noi ali the reasons for the hatred of Brindell, Suis newly formed nnfon and the contractors who give its members employment, have yught out in the Lockwood Committee testimony. MANY REASONS FOR HATRED OF BRINDELL. 3 xel told how he had @ contract with the Zaranko union to em- men on all work on stated terms. Brindell formed a new “1 gota inion. enlisting In It men out of work of strike-ldle or incompetent tn ojher trades. They were “dishwashers, tugboat deckhands, striking outlaw trainmen,” as Waixel described them. The employer who re- fused to discharge the Zaranko men and to employ in thelr place this inex peri d riff-raf’ must reckon on a strike of plumbers, plasterers, lrickldyers, laborers and tron workers on the building to be erected on the site of the demolition and on his other jobs throughout the city end even all over the country if he had contracts outside of New York. japiro, wrecking contractor, when questioned by Mr. Vater: confessed he was even afraid of the trade conditions. Q. So that you were afrald to let this other union demolish the Wilding for fear you would never he able to put up a building, is that {t? A, You might put it that way, yes. Q. Is there really such a reign of terror as that existing in the City of New York? A, We have not come in contact with it. “© Q You did in this Instance? A. The amount was not so great. Q If the amount tnvolved, amount exacted, can be one sum It can be another, can't it? A. T guess so. — Q. And you don’t regard that as a refgn of terror, do you? A. I, don't know that my opinion on that particular point {is of any value to you or anybody else in this investigation. Q. And I suppose it might be of injury to you as a builder in your future dealings with the Building Trades Council? A. Yes, sir. Again the Fuller Construction Company, hiring .Waixel to tear down the Munson Building at Pearl and Broad and Water Streets, was obi to pay Waixel to get rid of the Zaranko men and do as best he could with Brindeli's tncompetents. It was told on the stand t Mark Eidlitz had ordered a shut down of all work on the New Western Union Building in order to throw the Zaranko men out of work and force them to buy membership or permits from the new Brindell union Zaranko himself and Harry Savonya, a Russian wrecker, called from the Lockwood Committee audience by his leader, told of the swindles perpetrated upon the wreckers who were forced to seck their livelihood with the enemy union, Here is a bit of Zaranko's own testimony in answer to questions of Mr. Untermyer about the $50 initiation fee collected from Zaranko's men by Brindell’s unton when they sought to work under its protection, fhe $10 a week dues collected from them directly or through the contractor-employer by Brindell’s agents and the $10 ‘‘work permits’ by which they were Meensed to work with Brindell'’s men temporarily without actually pining them. HAD TO PAY FOR PRIVILEGE TO WORK. Q. What Is this $50 they fay? A. That is for privilege to live in this city and work on the job. Q. Can't you live here es long as you please, as you would any- where else? A. As long as you don’t pay you can’t live in this city. ‘They will drive you out. Q. Is the privilege only for five weeks? A. For until he pays $50. Q. Then what happens? A. The man paying this money; be can't get no more job, They begin with a new man. Q. Are you sure that after they pay $50 they lose their jobs? A. ‘sure, Their services with the employer are discontinued and a new man comes along and pays the $10 a week. Harty Savonya swore he paid $10 and worked six days, was sick end was not allowed to work until he paid $5 more. T “the Job ish’ and he wns told to,go find a job for himself, and when hy nd it he must pay $5 Mert Volk's testimony, before {t went as close to the explosion plot as Met er and Leonard Wallstein, his aesistant, thought it well ‘6 allow Volk to go, told how he secured permission from Brin- dell n Zaranko men to work on a job uptown by paying Brin doll ch for {nitidtion fees for them, The Zaranko men were not told then that they had thus been made traitors to Zaranko and their comrad k explained: they were led to belleve they were working fn defiance of ndell! Volk gald they would have refused to work aa suppliar rindell's permission They did not find out the truth fo cd Voi} I's confidant and friend. Volk was accepting batelies ef twelve Brindell union men every day and dismissing ‘ten Hof thom as unfit before the day was over. The Zaranko men bated Volk for cutering to Brindoll; they hated him for aiding Brindell to replace them: they hated him for helping to keep them out of work, thonch they hed ed him faithfully for years; finally, they bated him for emp ndell foremen who first exacted "Initiation fees” and "dues" and « permit fees” from them and then drove them off the work tarentening their lives ' ¥ , enuneel for Local No. 95, wh has records of many is one which took place at No. 15 East John Romanoff of Local No, 95 was the last work on that building. Thin was, of course, because of his size," said Ashley, “He was @ruck from behind. He resisted. There was @ genera) attack on bim. . ’ THE EVENING WORLD THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11 | Building, Between White Lines | He was kicked in the stomach, Patrick Moran, a dockbuilder and the | brother of Joe Moran, one of Brindell's HMeutenants,(was arrested by | Roliceman Turk, There were numerous court hearings before Magis trate Corrigan, Moran was fined $10 Aug. 26. We have an affidavit that Moran said on leaving court: \‘It was worth $10 to get that’. I'll get him again, and get him right next time,’” Ashley contemplates numerous actions for assaults on Local No. 95 men on the Stock Exchange Annex building. Volk got from Brindell the privilege of putting eixr seven Zaranko men on the building with & minimum of publicity after a piece of falling glass dropped by an inex- perienced Brindell man had cut a man in the street and brought on a damage suit. The Zaranko men were put in the most difficult and dan gerous spots. Volk had six Brindell foremen. They were Raymond Clark, James Reilly, Jim McGarry, Al Handel, Thomas Gorman and one Doran. ZARANKO MEN ON,JOB ARE BEATEN. When the wreckers were paid off Saturday the Zaranko men were taken into no gentle custody at the cashier's window and manhandled until they paid over their weekly fees to Brindell’s walking delegate, who had a desk in a corner of Voli's office. Always the Zaranko men were cursed and Jeered at and called filthy names by all the other men on the job. Constantly great chunks of stone or plaster would fall two or three stories and strike near them. The last of them had been driven froy: the Broad and Wall Street job in fear of their lives by these accidents and by com- bined assaults of foremen and other workers. John Baranchuk of No, 174 Forsyth Street was the last to go. He was working three stories up, Aug. 10.° He waa ordered to the lower floors. As he was starting down the stairs to the second floor he was struck from behind, (Lawyer Ashley says he has the name of the man who dealt Baranchuk the blow, bit is “afraid of provoking mur der by producing his witnesses just no Baranchuk rolled to the ground floor. He was struck with pieces of brick as he rolled. While he lay unconscious at the ground floor, great chunks of hollow tiling fell on him. He was sent to a hospital. He was not the firet or the “last to be ao Injured. Tn early September, as a concession to the flerce anger in his union fanned up by the exactions, privations, insults, Injuries to body and pocket and utter brutality of the usurpation of the wrecking tule by Brindell and his made-to-order Wreckers Union, Zaranko called a strike, It was “a strike arainst the lock-out.” Here and there, working on permits or on {solated Jobs where Brindell men were useless or dangerous because of incompetence, about 200 or 400 of No. 95's men were keeping the traditions of the wreek ng trade going. It was Zaranko's idea that, the contractors as a whole were responsible for Brindell's ousting the old wreekers from their | | Was Objective of Wall St. Bomb 1920 OMB FIRED BY MEN IN REVENGE UPON LEAD livelihood aud their anton rie aud that Lay & general strike against all wreckin ZARANKO APP. AT No. should deetare perarions ALS IN VAIN AL HYLA! Zaranko had reached the limit of bis etforus to lead his ualon out of its plight. When he came back to New York last winter he found that Viadimir A, Fanke, its business agent, had persuaded Zaranko's successor as President, Ostapetuk, to take ii out of the Amertean Federation of Labor, in which they had an independent charter as Local No, 16, and put It into an organization entirely out side of the Federation—the Independent Bricklayers Helpers and Building Laborers’ Union of Amerioa, Incorporated—with headquar- ters in Essex Street. The transplanted union found that this Inter- national was under Brindell control. It was asked to turn over its treasury funds to Brindell control; Fanke was revealod as little more than an agent of Brindell, for whom he {ts to-day an acknowledged agent. The union members rebelled and were suspended, bo that they belonged to no unton at all, temporarily. Fanke and Ostapetuk were deposed. Zaranko became President again May 10 last. A few weeks afterward Ostapetuk disappeared; the men say he went back to Europe. Zaranko obtained for therh a new charter under the authority of the International Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers’ of America, a branch of the A. F. of L. Brindell countered by starting a new unlon, an excrescence on hi¢ dock laborers’ organization, giving it a charter under-the Building ‘Trades Council affiliation with the AF. of L. He began picking up strike-idle and inefMfctent cast-offs from any and all other unions Zaranko wrote tothe Dock Builders, to the Tugboat Men and to the Dishwashers to complain. His only satisfaction consisted of letters addressed to the “Dear Brother House Wreckers,” saying there must be “a mistake, as Mr. Brindell would not approve of anything that was not all right.” Zaranko appealed to the American Federation of Labor through friendly contractors and directly, He got this re- sponse even from, Frayne, trusted Heutenant of Samuel Gompers, which {s in testimony. of the Lockwood Committee: Nathing can be done with Brindell; he seems to be a power unto himself.” Zaranko appealed to Dominico Dellesandro of Qtincy, Mass., the head of the newly adopted parent international; he asked him to come to New York and help him. Dellesandro apparently con- sulted with Frayne and replied nothing could be done for the Zaranko men until the meeting of the National Convention of the Federation at Montreal. This convention was held; no action was taken. Zaranko wrote asking a conference with Mayor Hylan as long ago as May 26 last. Secretary Sinnott replied that the Mayor was too busy to keep such engagements. He was asked to “put it in writing.” He did and agaih asked for a conference. The interview with the » Mayor was refused again. Then Mr. Hylan referred him to Frank | Mann, Chairman of his Committee on Housing. Mr. Mann passed him | along to David Hirshfield, the busy little Commissioner of Accounts, | | nthe ety who was so busy that he again passed Zaranko along to a clerk in his office. He abandoned appeals to city officials, The counsel to the Lockwood Committee has all this correspondence in its possession. As a last resort’ Zaranko asked authority from his men to order a strike of the wrecking industry in this ity asa protest against the lock- out of Local No, 96 by the contractors, This authority, was voted Aug. |, 13. Arrangements for the strike and a demonstration against all the | Brindell men on wrecking jobs had been under way three days when !t | was learned that approval of the atrike must be had from Dellesandro. | LA GUARDIA SEEKS TO AVERT STRIKE. | At this point Borough President La Guardia heard of the distress of the 1,800 men and offered his services. He asked them not to strike until he had tried to get a hearing for them with the Mayor‘and their international union head, He found he could not help them. They pre- pared to strike again when they were warned on Sept. 10 that they had no right to strike because their charter had been in existence only three months of the requiréd #ix. Brindell and the members of his unton Jeored. The contractors laughed openly at the silliness of a new strike by men already out of work who had not union authority to strike. Volk is remembered to have commented on ‘it among his friends Sept. 15. The explosion was Sept. 16, Aud now it is for thg police and the Federal detectives and their privately organized competitors to find out just who planned the ticking clock in Its barrel of broken sashweighta and dynamite which was hauled almost to the entrance of the Wall and Broad Streota, Albert A Volk and Company job, by the broken down bay horse and the ramshackle wagon—driven by a man who did not know what was in his load and who went away when he found out and never came back or even sent word, They wilt fod that be was sent by one or more ombittered, des- "SHIMMY OUT OF FILMS. The suit’ h ve ben removed from the filn nily stirred Nyack-on-the Hutson, the shimmy and one-ptace bathing | | priceipals being six Nyack | girls. four of them him school students, and two high ache! yoys, who posed ar beniities and life guards bern shown at the in. Ny for thy ined by Mt Mira the ruth.” — The . lid not eensor the ple Mugeins—in 6} egotism ho has a sympathetic nature. 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Finely made and trigly fashioned are these shirts of men's wear silks and crepe de chines. , Cambridge and Eton effects, lin cuffs of new types, fronts partly or entirely plaited and flutings that edge the collars, fronts and cuffs. ER BRINDELL berate meno hizers, not Zarankos union, It wae personal vengeance for wrongs which they nad suffered because their union was ti strony @nough to protect them when they most needed protection ‘ They wore biind (Wo ail cousequonces to others than Brindell’s allies, creatures and beueficiaries—men who were profiting by thelr vuln, Some of their brethren had been sent into the country by Yaranko to work on farins w trades and those swindled and maimed, Others were working as apprentices in who tried to atick to the old trade were being LIQUOR SEIZED ON SHIP. In nod Whink SEIZED B BY WORKERS}, and Other Un cted Hiding Reported to Be Esti atfshing Soviets La hel Cuntoma tngpectors today turntd tn > Police and Troops Rushed 120 nd gin’ whieh bottles of whiskey to Scene, aed in the castle of - ro Cantle, y ‘rier qwhtet AERUN. Nov. 11.—German work-|reached Pier 16. ay pain men fvized a metal factory here to- muraua wine ol ow day and extingulaied the fires Other | rated out tmmectee Hee rete factories were \nvaded w a Hh pijepsigh eon found ously. . four pint bottion of whinkey In a Teddy Near found four concen tod Thin was the first inntance of th! | tee Police reserves and | (er Other workers took pomeaston of a * plant on the north sid of atablishing a sovist there. p reported, nae HUSBAND, ACCUSE BROTHERS OF ARSON ONLY A BOARDER. BALTIMORE, Md. \ Now T1—Mre. Ba mt vy Ameribed a8 | George Kirby conducts a boarding house Cause of Alleged Attempt, land her husband ob Jected to a boarder Pasquate Guavtglita, No. 36 Mul-|named Harry C. 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