New-York tribune., 1920-11-13
Z ails
To Show Labor
Plotted Blast
(ContInued from page ene)

committce that in a number Of in
stances Brindell required them to take
Atw9ll into partnership as a condition
Of immunity from strikes.
On the other hand Raymond Clark,
who was Nolk's foreman on the Stock
Exchange job, puts the whole concoc-
ton OF the labor row theory up to Volk
himself. Clark left Volk's employ last
Saturday. The foreman is trusted
lieutenant Of Brindell The fact that
Clark was shot by guDman on Octo-
Der Il last had been cited as circum-
stance tending to show that the perpe-
TRAITORS of the explosion wanted to shut
him up. Clark having stated that he
had seen the driver Of the wagon that
brought the bomb to Wall Street
During yesterdays session OF the
Lockwood committee, which Clark at
tended, he said to reporters:
"The shooting was absolutely apart
from any labor trouble. 1t was a pr-
vate matter. know who shot me, but
| don't care to say who it was. Volk
In my opinion. the whole thing
bunk.
Neither In his examination by he
District Attorney nor in his talk with
newspaper men did Vo'k profess to
have abandoned the plausibility Of the
theory he. claims Atwell first suggested
to him.
at is still as strong as ever In my
mind" he SAID, "and until it is dis
proved I will continue to maintain it.
Volk's Statement Quoted
Il think the man who drove the
wagon to Wall Street came there to
find our operations He left the wagon
at the corner, instead of driving around
TO New Street, believe, because our
sign was still at the corner of Broad,
although we had moved our office to
New Street nine days before
Nolk denied the truth Of The
Evening Worlds statement that Clark,
when he returned to work after the
shooting, said he had been "shot at by
fellows who want to get ne out of the
way because l stated ! could identify
the driver of the wagon"
In the stenographic report of Volk's
statement to District Attorney Swami,
the contractor is quoted as saying:
"My theory is that it was some in
dividual who wanted to create an i'm
preston on the inception Of the strike
that was called by the Zaranko union
As understand it, thcre was plblica-
day, the day before the explosion. None
Of Zarank's men. as such, were then
employed on any housc-w -wrecking lob
in New York, to my knowledge. Still,
the strike was called
"Many Of Zaranko's men had
Joined the Rr;ndell union. some of them
a. our instance. and my theory is based
My on Imagination ard the facts
chat have already come to light that
sone individual knew some one wac un-
'crstood the fabrication of bombs and
!. l 30,
II this stand that they had taken.
"Whcn refer to the 'facts that have
come to light mean only the fact Of
the explosion, the location Of the
agon, the nature of the materials
'ound after the explosion, the bitter
ress of the quarrel between the two
Unions and the fact that one union
thought we were to blame for their
r,lisht by playing with Brindell to put
them out"
Saw Man on ScafYoId
Abraham K Flcshner, secretary Of
Albert A. Volk Company, who reached
the scene Of the explosion fifteen min
utes after it happened, declared he
got q good look at the man on the
scaffolding over the Stock Exchange
annex excavation, whom Clark believes
to have been the driver of the bomb
wagon. This is his description Of the
man:
"He was ahogt medium height. five
feet six or eight inches, and VIC .ghcd
around $50 pounds. He was kind Of
Aabby-you know not slim ard not
fat He was foreign looking, dark,
and might have been Russian or an
italian. His clothes were not those of
Il driver, but looked like good clothes
He hid some kind of a shirt on with q
collar of the same kind of material
as the body, but that is all have been
able to recall
1t was on May last, Volk made
known, that he decided to comply with