Arizona republican., 1920-11-12
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 NEW YORK, Nov. 11.-ResponsibiI pIosion last September, the echo of which was heard around world in denunciation of "reds" and anarchists" today was charged to individual la boring men or labor sympathizers by the New York Evening World. The paper, however, admitted it could not explain presence of threats signed anarchist fighters" found in . mail box near the scene of the explosion.
 In three page story, the paper an nounced that the mystery of the blast that killed nearly 40 persons and in- iured 15o more, had been "solved." The theory advanced was that the death wagon in which the bomb had exploded had not been sent into the l financial district to terrorize the leap italist class" but that it had been in l Brindell, president of the building trades council and S5 "Brindei work ers' employed in demoiish;ng the stock exchange building annex. Held l up on the way, the bomb was believed 1 by the paper to have exploded before it reached it's destination.
 Seeking to link the explosion with the building trust graft now being in yestigated by a joint legislative com mittee, the paper, naming a house. wreckers' union said:
 l "The Evening World presents proof | that 1,S00 men, nearly all foreign born. sober. industrious. efficient and well l disciplined, have within a space of IS months been subjected to an amazing conspiracy Of greed and injustice, and l the explosion was the culmination of | se. a was responsible for the crime. The Evening World does not charge the union, as a union. with responsibility. 1t was the work of individuals, pos sibly inside the union, possibly the work of sympathizers.
 1 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 opportunity was | centered not only on their arch-oppres- sor, Robert P. Brtndell dictator of the l building trades council. but upon house wrecking contractors.'
 Police Searching Records
 The police and agents of the depart ment of justice. the paper asserts, to- day are busy looking through the membership rolls of house wreckers union No. to find men who might have been so false to modern labor l union principles and the teachings of l Gompers and Frayne end their own 1 outspoken advocates of law and order. 1 William Zaranxo. as to blacken their 1 organizations good name by a crime of private vengeance as horrible and wicked as the Wall street explosion. :"
 District Attorney Swann announced he had invited every person mentioned in the newspaper story to be at his office tomorrow. He added that if theD had any information likely to re seult in indictment of guilty parties he would order them to appear before the appeared in the building trust investi gation today. denounced the news paper story.
 The story stressed a charge that ef- forts had been made by unnamed per sons to prevent evidence relative to the catastrophe from coming to light.
 Claim Witnesses Intimidated
 It was brought out that a man who was alleged to have claimed ownership of the horse which drew the death wagon immediately after the blast ana who spoke of the boss who had di- rected him to drive the conveyance to Wall and Broad streets. had disap- peared. One of the men to whom he told his story and who persisted in re- beating it, was the victim of an at tempted assassination within a month according to the story. despite the fact that he had gone dumb
 This man, at whom three shots were fired one night in October, the story declared, was Raymond Clark, chief foreman of gang of housewreckers who were tearing down the stock ex- change annex. Clark, it continues, is Q Brinden "lieutenant," though em- 7 plcyed by a firm Of building con tractors.
 Tn the present week." the story continued, The Evening World has found two business men of high stand ing to whom Clark told it the after } noon of the explosion and to whom he mentioned it again when explainins [ to them the attempt to assasslnate him three weeks ago.