The sun., 1903-12-28
BUILDING DYNAMlTER KNOWN.
WAS ONE or PARkS'S "WRECKTNG
CREW" hose AIM UASMU RIDER.
They Were the Inner Circle Of n Committee
OF Seventy within the HOusesmiths'
Union. Formed 10 do the Cars Dirty
Work-Kept II l'p After He Was Jailed

ing Trades Employers Association, said
yesterday that detectives in the employ
Of the association had gathered evidence
which made it morally certain that the
recent dynamiting of buildings in member
| course of construction was the work of
| of Sam Parks's old union of housesmiths.
| This member. Mr.. Eidtz said. more
over, belonged to an organization within
that organization. known to the En-
ployers' association as the committee Of
Seventy"
The committee of seventy" Mr.. Eidlitz
said, was q collection of men with certain
amount of organization, who bound them
selves to do the will of Parks and to see to it
that those who sought to thwart the pur-
POSES Of their leader were properly pun
ished. The committee" had, besides, a
sort of subcommittee known among
Parks's friends in the union as "the wreck
| ing crew" It consisted of from five to
| seven men who were ready to do anything,
including murder, "for Sam.
Fully 90 per cent of the assaults and
outrases which marked the strikes under
the leadership of Parks, Mr.. Eiditz said,
were committed by this inside organization
of the union Its members sought to con-
IrOl Itle ufllOn III lUt Interest VI diNS
They even passed upon all applications for
membership. II was this body, according to
Mr. Eidltz, that prevented every attempt
to depose Parks after the results OF his
policy prompted the better element among
the holisesmths to try TO put him out
Decent members of the union were warned
not to attend its meeting.
"The information which put us III pos
session of these facts said Mr.. Eidlitz
yesterday, -and which at once made 1t clear
81. i bah
was gathered by our detectives through
the summer. 1t may be surprise to some
to learn that for months we employed
enough detectives and good men they
were, toto shadow each member OF this
committee Of seventy. We knew what
they did every dav. because the detectives
lad to make a report al the end Of each
day. We now have hundreds of these
reports on file, and they will be kept for
future reference They show clearly who
the dangerous spirits were.
After Parks conviction this crowd
still remained with evil in their hearts and
We kept our detectives following them
until some weeks ago. when President
Buchanan of the international union and
his executive committee told us that there
wasn't going to be any more of this rowdy-
ism and terrorism, that now that PARKS
was under this would be stopped, and we
need have no more fear.
We took Buchanan = word for this and
espionage which we had gradually worked
out until we had this gang about scared
off Three days after we called oil our
men the dynamiting occurred. That twas
done by these men with whom our detec-
asain and again there was no doubt.
After that we put some Of our old men
the members of this gang While we have
evidence which makes us morally certain
that one member of this crAw was re-
sponsihle for the dynamiting, it is an.
other thing TO have evidence that would
convict this man, and there the matter
stands. That dynamitng, am convinced,
was sort of last act of defiance Of this
crowd, which they pulled off the minute we
lat up on them. | don't believe there will
bn any more.
Some of the men who formed the
commit tee of seventy Of Parkss union are
at work. but most OF them are loafng yet.
We are still Watching them and are going TO
keep watching them in the way we did all
summer. If these men are ever discovered
working on any Jobs under assumed names,
as they will probably ATTEMPT to do, they
will be quickly got rid of. They may Join
a new union or do anything they please.
Their record is sufficient TO warrant our
refusing work TO hem and we'll do it,
This committee of seventy was formed
among Parks's friends when he began to
get The ascendencv in the union. IT was this
committee that hacked up Parks all through
his fight-ihat planned assaults and even
murder. They left it TO the wreck king
crew to carry out the worst of their plans.
These were seven men who wouldn't stop
AZ anything. We have all their names
in our reports.
"Thcy plotted to kill Buchanan himself
and they plotted to kill employers. We
trust rated all their murder plots. and when
Buchanan himself came here in tho heat
OF the conflict he sent 10 us for prot ioc'i ion,
and when we ~cnt him Two of our detectives
he asked for wo more.
At was report Of one Of our men that
disclosed the plot to kill him in Kansas
CITY, The committee of seventy had il
all planned to get into The convention
hall first, surround Buchanan, and when
one Of tho wreCking crew sho' him
the committee of seventy was to cover
the nurderers tracks. This report
was brought TO mo at midnight one
night. | sent it at once to member of
he Dist rict Attorneys staff and the newt
morning Buchanan got telegram tell
ing him all about il. AT the convention
he had enough of his crowd around him
to save him,
There are things hat we never will revca:
now. Reports of our Diet ives showed
hat men were being assaulted daily. Men
were punished right in Maennerchor Hall
by being jumped on ny the wrecking crew.
at was this crew that made business
OF cutting guy "opes of derrcks. They
got into Buildings at night and GU, the
inside 81 rands of he wire rope, leaving it
in such shape that tho cut could not he
detected from he outside appearance OF
the rope, but when strain was put on it
il would break like piece of cord.
"Since the dynamitng we have revived
our system of reports on these men, but
they show they are doing nothing. They
sometimes meet in saloons, but their crgan
zatcn is about gone. We still have build
ings guarded, however. The bundles Of
tvpewritten reports on the doings Of these
men are simply filed away in our archives
They are valuable, but not for prosecution
Knowing the contents OF these reports,
MIR Eidlita said it made him sick to have
to sit and listen to the speeches at the Civic
Federation dinner.
1t was this silly talk Of unionism by
men there who don't know of the side /
have seen in these reports that led mo to
make the speech l did,, said he, "They
tell a different story of unionlsm than
was told at that dinner"
At Yesterdays meeting of the Central
Federated Union James p. Archibald of the
COMMITTEES appointed TO try and gain rccog-
milton for the Parks union from the Iron
League said:
I'VE wrote to &. f.. Cheney, secretary Of
the Iron League, asking for a conference
ard explaining our object He replied that
there would be no objection to the confer
ence, but he could tell the committee before
~, ,c; 10