The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-03-27
SUPT. OF LABOR
 RESPONSIBLE
 FOR HOLOCAUST
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 too poor to pay the undertaken. The union has ordered that all members refrain from working, tomorrow, when it is planned to hold most of the fun erals and to participate in monster nizations are expected to join and the whole is to be made. a united protest against the lax laws which made the horror possible.
 Of the 142 bodies that had been taken to the morgue up to noon, yes dead had been recovered, all but Az had been identified, today. All through the night the old covered charities pier had been besieged by persons whose loved ones were missing, but most of the remaining bodies are so terribly burned that identification seems inn possible A heavy rain started to fall, last night driving the curiosity seek CTS away but those who believed they had relatives there remained in the wet.
 With daylight the line began to grow again and before g o'clock there were more than a thousand people waiting to get inside. The police and nurses on duty only permitted the peo- pie to enter a few at a time in order that confusion might be prevented. All of the bodies had been placed in roughly painted pine boxes and. where it was possible, the head had been elevated so that recognition might be facilitated. AS quickly as identifica- tion was made the Lids were c1amped on the collins and they were placed at the rear of the pier to await trans fer by undertakers to the sorrowing homes.
 At the Mercer street police station the police have half hundred wom- ems hats and furs. as we'll as other wearing apparel and valuables arrang- ed around the floors of the reserve squad room. These belonged to the dead and were being held for the rela- tives to identify and claim. There are also in the captains safe a number of pay envelopes and pieces of jewelry picked up in the street after the vic- tins jumped. There were IA injured victims in St. Vincent's hospital, New York, and Belleveue Hospital, today Of these, five at least are so terribly hurt that they cannot recover.
 Washington, March 27-The AscF building fire could not have taken it's fearful death toll of garment work CTS, according to Vice President James F. OConneH. of the American Feder- ation of Labor today, if the employees had been unionized
 'In no union shop in the United States do such conditions exist as those under which the employees of the Triangle factory were compelled to toil,' said O'Connell "Organized labor would not tolerate the existence of such 'sweatshop' conditions.
 'tCongested quarters of employees especially for women, are not permit ted in union shops. Adequate means of escape are made compulsory and in union shops the work is over at 4 o'clock on Saturday. The fire was not discovered until almost five, and the heavy toll could not have been exacted in a similar catastrophe in any union shop.
 'I think the blame can be equally divided between employers and the city authorities
 New Haven, March 27-The fire. building and police departments of large cities in Connecticut congratu- lated themselves today that the State had few, if any, skyscrapers or lofty buildings in the class of the Asch building, New York, the scene of Sat urday's horrible fire. At the same time, these officials stated that in- spections would be more rigid in the future. Probably some new laws will