The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-11

WAGON TOUCHED OFF
Internal Machine Intended for House
Wrccking Job, But Went Oh
Before Ar.
irving.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.l
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE Even
ing World today under the heading
wall Street Explosion Solved" de-
ciared that through an independent
investigation 1t had discovered that
the bomb which killed mere than
thirty persons in Wall street, Sep.
TENDER 49, was intended to blow up
a house wrecking job near the Nor
gan Office 1t was sent by indepen-
dent members or sympathizers with
house wreckers union local number
ninety five which had a grievance
against the Brindell building trades
council dock builders and house
| wreckers union number 1855. mem
! bers Of which were working on the
I house wrecking job, the Evening
World said. The bomb wagon was
; driven by "a big stolid Pole" who
did not know what was in it, the
newspaper asserted The bomb was
clock work machine set for 1902
D. M, it said, and was consigned to
the contractor at work on the house
wrecking job, Albert Volk and Com
pany.
There was some delay in crossing
the street intersection and when the
driver left his wagon to ask where
to deliver his load, the Evening
World said, the hour arrived and
the bomb exploded.
"And now" said the World, 'it is
for the police and the federal detec-
tives and their privately organized
competitors to find out who planted
the ticking clock in its barrel Of
! broken sash weights and dynamite
which was hauled almost to the en-
trance of the Wall and Broad streets,
Albert Volk and Company job, by the
broken down bay horse and the ram
shackle 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"
The motive of the independent
members Of, or sympathizers with
house wreckers local number ninety
five in seeking to blow up the. job
was largely a desire for revenge on
Robert P. Brindell and his allies, the
newspaper said. .-
Brindell, head Of the building
trades council, is now under investi-
CATION by the Lockwood Legislative
committee here. He is said to- have
organized new unions, forcing the
old ones out of business and making
their members pay him tribute be
, fore they could get work from con-
tractors dominated by him and his
, new unions.
Members of one of the unions thus
organized by Brindell were said to be
engaged on the Volk house wrecking
job and one of the foremen was
James Reilly, a p-otege of Brindell,
I, the World said further describing
/ him as "a member of the inspection
and entertainment committee charged
| with responsibility for driving all
members of the old House Wreckers'
union out OF the trade" Five other
| foremen on the Volk job were known
as "Brindell men" The newspaper
also said:
"Volk became Brindell's confdani
and friend Volk was accepting
patches of twelve BrindeI union men
every day and dismissing ten oil
/ them as unfit before the day was
over. The Zaranko men (members
of the old union) hated Volk fol
catering to Brindell; they hated Brin
dell for letting Volk replace them;
they hated him for keeping them ouj
Of work; finally they hated him fol
employing Brindells foreman wht
first exacted initiation fees ant
dues and work permit fees from
them and then drove them off tht
work by threatening their lives.
when the wreckers were paid of
( on Saturday, the Zaranko men were
j taken into no gentle custody at th'
cashiers window and manhandlet
until they paid over their week..
fees to Brindell's walking delegate
who had a desk in the corner o
Volk's Office. Always the zarankt
men were cursed at and called filth,