Omaha daily bee., 1920-11-12
Bomb Plot
.SolvedSavs
N. WV World
Responsibility for Wall Stree.
Disaster Laid Upon Individ.
ual Laboring Men or La.
Dor Sympathizers.
Threats Not Explained
BY The Associated Press.

| New York, Nov. v..ll.-Responsibl-
ity for the disastrous Wall street en-
plosion last September, the echo OF
Which was heard around the worlo
in denunciations OF reds" and AN
archists," today was charged to i'll
| dlvidual laboring men or labor SYM
pathizers by tn" New York Evening,
World. The paper, however. ad.
nitted it could not explain presence
OF threats signed, Anarchist Fight
ers" found in mail box near the
scene of the explosion. .f
In a three-page story, the paper
announced that the mystery Of the
blast that killed nearly 40 persons
ana injured $50 more had been
Solved" The theory advanced was
that the death wagon in which the
bomb had exploded had not been
sent into the financial district to ter
rcrize "the capitalist class" but thai
it had been intended as reprisa.
against Robert P. Brindell, presi
dent of the Building Trades council
and IS "Brindell workers" employed
in demolishing the Stock Exchange
building annex. Held upon the way,
the bomb was believed by the paper
to have exploded before it reached
its destination.
Linked With Building Trust.
Seeking to link the explosion with
the building trust graft" now be-
iig investigated by joint legislative
committee the paper, naming ,
house wreckers' union, said:
"The Evening World -presents
proof that 1900 men, nearly all for
eign- born, sober, industrious, eff
cient and well-disciplined, have with
in space of IS months, been sub
iccted to an amazing conspiracy OF
greed and injustice, and the explo
SION was the elimination OF this
tyranny. The building trades graft
was responsible for the crime. The
Evening World does not charge the
union, as union, with responsible
ity. 1t was the work of individuals,
possibly inside the union, possibly
the work of sympathizers.
Further proofs are presented that
the wrath and resentment of these
working men and their fellows who
knew of their tragic losing fight to
avert vagrancy and starvation IN
days OF overflowing labor oppor-
tunity was conferred not only OH
their arch-oppressor. Robert P Brin
dall, dictator OF the Building Trades
Council. but upon house wrecking
contractors,
Sworn to Investigate.
The police and agents of the De-
partment of Justice. the paper as
serts, today are busy looking
through, the membership rolls OF
House Wreckers union number o5,
to find men who might have been
SO false to modern labor union
principles and the teachings OF
Gompers and Frayne. and their own
outspoken advocate OF law and
order. William Zaranko. as to
blacken their organizations good
name by crime of private venge-
ance as horrible and wicked as the
Wall street explosion"
District Attorney Swami an
nounced he had invited every per-
witness i'm the building trust inves-
tigation, today denounced the news
paper story .,.
The story stressed a charge that
efforts had been made by unnamed
persons to prevent evidence relat-
ing to the catastrophe from coming
to light.
Driver Disappears.
1t was brought out that a man
who was alleged toN have claimed
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