The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-03-28
n MIKE M|GHTY
DEMONSTRATION
Union Labor viii Make Fun
erals of Fire Victims I'M
pressive Object Lesson
SOME OF FACTORY'S
EXITS WERE LOCKED
Twenty-Eight Bodies Yet Un-
identified in Morgue--
April Grand Jury
VIII Act

NEW YORK. March 2s.--Laated
labor. fiorrsf.sd by the realisation that
most Of the hives Lost in the Triangle
Waist Factory FIRE might have been
saved had the existing laws been lived
up to, IS to-day arranging "a mighty
demonstration OF protest. What VIII
amount TO general suspension Of
work rs planned when the bodies OF
the unidentified are buried. As many
Union me-: and Women as can do so
viii follow the ncarses on foot as a
protest against la enforcement OF
the labor laws.
Ii had been planned to make the
demonstration to-day, but owing To
the provision OF the law requiring
unidentified bodies 70 be held Ave
days. the joint funeral will take place
either Thursday or Friday. The
Trades Union League has taken
snarge OF all arrangements.
Following the funerals a big mass
meeting viii be held at which demands
that the authorities make the factories
~ the city safe VIII be adopted. The
aniens will slss, arrange for the pre-
parastou of o comprehensive report
showing just what conditions exist IN
every factory building in the city. One
copy Of this report will be retained by
the unions. one Will be filed with May
or Gaynor and one sent to the State
GoTn missioner Of Labor, with de-
Inand that all conditions complained
of be remedied.
Exit Doors We're Locked.
THAT some OF the exit doors OF the
triangle factory were locked when
40 tnsu
spste the denials OF the members of
the firm. Coroner Hoizhauser has a.
score OF witnesses whom he viii call
when the inquest Is started, who Will
testify to this. In addition. Chier
croker says. his men could not get
into the workshop on the ninth and
tenth floors until after they had chop
ped down the doors.
Fire Marshal Beers resumed hts in
qoiry to-day into the cause of the
fire and resultant panic. While sat
isfied that the blaze sarted from II
match or cigarette. he liz trying to de-
explosion or III iamimabie cleaning
compound whfch scattered the Are and
made 1t impossible for the workers to
put 1t out. He has been told there
we're several kegs of this cleaning
compound stored near the origin of
the fire.
April Grand JURY to Act
District Attorney Whitman and his
assistants are fling their report OF
the inquiry. 1t has been decided that
the case Will be taken up by one or
the April grand iuries. so that there
can be time enough given to make the
inquiry comprehensive and 10 deter
mine. not only the responsibility for
. ,Suf ~ ~, tztsh ale
find out what methods should be taxi
en- to safeguard the city's factories.
The fund for the relief of the fire
sufferers now exceeds $4,000 and is
growing rapidly. Arrangements are
being made for a n um Der of theatrical
benefits for the fund. while many Of
the storekeepers on the East Side have
agreed that they will donate a days
receipts to the fund.
To-day there were twenty eight un-
identified bodies IN the morgue, and
II liz unlikely that more than one or
two of these will he Identified. These
bodies are mere black charred masses
with perhaps only huttoned shoe or
piece OF cloth skirt ciinging to them
Funerals OF many OF the victims
took place from their homes i'm the
lower part OF the city to-day. In
several instances two and three bodies
were conveyed to the cemetery In a
single hearse.
Five girls whose bodies had been
claimed BY relatives. who were nearly
destitute and who had no money q
bury their dead. were buried from the
headquarters OF the Ladies' Waist and
Dressnakers' Union in Clinton Hall
to-day. The hall and the streets In
the vicinity were 20 crowded with
Svsr tH nf Ia nj
that he police reserves from Delanc,
street station had to be called out 70
make passage for the hearses. AL.
together there were thirty-hve fun
erals OF the victims to-day.