The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-11-12
BOMB OUTRAGE
FOUND RESULT
OF LABOR WAR
Union Workers, Desper-
ate, Send Death Wa
gon into Financial
Center
AFTER FAVORITES
AFTER FAVORITES
Traffic Blockade Pre-
vented Wagon Reach
ing Victims

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE grea
Wall street explosion on September
16 which cost thirty lives and prop
erty damage of millions was moi
caused by anarchistic or "red" act
ivities, but was the direct result o1
a war between rival labor unions 1r
New York, according to sensational
story published by the Evening
World today after an investigation OF
weeks.
"The building trades graft was re.
sponsible for the crime" asserts The
World.
"The Evening World here presents
proof that 1900 men nearly all
foreign born, sober, industrious, ef-
ficient and we'll observation-disclosures
vreckers local number 95, known re-
Gently as the Polish Union and
'Zarankos union'-have within a
space of eighteen months been sub
iected to an amazing conspiracy OF
greed and injustices and the explo-
sion was the result of this tyranny
The building trades graft was re-
sponsible for the crime. The Evening
World does not charge the union, as
a union, with responsibility. 1t was
the work of individuals, possibly in
side the union, possibly the work OF
sympathizers.
Further proofs are presented that
the wrath and resentment OF these
working men and their fellows VINO
knew of their tragic losing hight 10
avert vagrancy and starvation IN
DAYS of overfowing labor opportun-
itv was centered not only on their
arch-oppressor, Robert P. Brindell.
Dictator of the labor trades council,
but also upon house wrecking con-
tractors"
Robert P. Brindell, mentioned in
the story has been the central figure
of an investigation by the Lockwood
legislative committee which has re-
suited in amazing disclosures or
graft in the building trades industry
in New York. Witnesses, both labor
and contractors, have testified that
Brindell was so powerful that he
'shook down" both sides for huge
sums. Contractors testified that
they had to pay Brindell large sums
to be allowed to work. Failure to
deal with Brindell, they said re-
suited in his calling off the men and
tying up WORK. ~
While Brindell was dictator" in
the trades unions, the world sets
forth, he had many enemies IN
labor's ranks. Small unions hated
him because they were forced to pay
tribute to him.
It was the elimination of this hate
against BrindelIs organization, the
world says, which resulted In the ex-
plosion. zr<
Desire for revenge was the COM
pelling motive behind the crime.
"On the day of the explosion, the
Brindell organization were working
on an excavation at Broad and Wall
Streets" continues the World. At that
time their feeling against the Brin-
dell organized men was at its Bit
terest. Their (the smaller units In
the Industry appeals to city authorl-
ties to affiliated unions, to the
American federation Of labor and to
fair play among the contractors had
failed. At that time Albert A. Volk
was carrying on the demolition of the
buildings on the side of the stock
exchange, building annex to Broad
and Wall streets" iU,
q The World goes on to state that
the bomb was carried to the scene
of the explosion in a wagon driven
by a "big stolid Pole" who did not
know what was in his load. The Pole
had been merely instructed to deliver
his load to the "Job at Broad and
Wall Streets before IL o'clock"
"In the wagon was monster
bomb of dynamite, about which
broken pieces of cast iron sash
weights had been packed. A clock
work device to set off the bomb had
been adjusted to do its work at two
minutes after IL o'clock. The dyna-
mite had been stolen from the stores
Of wrecking and excavation contrac-
tors; the sash weights had been gath
cred from the junk pile of build
ing-wrecker's yard"