Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-04-25

or will the result weaken the love of 5the rank and file for the cause which
 has proven their salvation. The Turn
 CT Detective agency of Cleveland was
 the promoter and instigator of the pro-
 ceedings. This concern has various
 branches in different parts of the
 country. The Chicago branch is
 known as the Manufacturers Infor-
 nation Bureau and is presided over by one I. V. Parks, whose name fig
 ured in the trial as did that of Turner and other officials besides the spies
 they sent out. The avowed object of
 this concern is to crush out labor or l ganizations, to further this end they
 have sent spies into various unions
 who report regularly to the agency all
 the proceedings of the unions to l which they belong, as well as all other
 information and gossip, whether true
 or not, which they can gather. In it's
 circulars this concern offers to supply Eits subscribers with full reports of all
 meetings of the unions and their exec
 utive committees. Proceedings of the
 recent New Orleans convention and committee meetings of the A. F. of l l.. were sold by this enterprising con-
 cern for $16, when at its close au- l thentic copies could be had for 25
 25 cents, but the blind hostility and
 unreasoning hatred swept aside all
 caution and vigilance and they fell an
 easy prey to the harpies who gladly l took advantage of their weakness to
 reap a golden harvest through their gullibility. About February or March,
 1900, this concern succeeded in in l stalling one of its spies, named Henry
 Thurman, into Brass Moulders' Lo- cal No S3. this was the man who fur
 nished the agency the ground
 work upon which to base 8 criminal prosecution, at the time of his intro
 duction an unbroken peace reigned. though the notes and observations of l this period was put in use two years llater in this trial. Thurmann's sue cessful entree in all probability was re l peated by other spies operating in q 1 like manner in 8 large number of oth- CT unions, and the only apparent req 1 son that the Brass Moulders' union
 was singled out for attack was be- l cause circumstances favored such a project ill this particular. case. Ingra- l tiating himself into the good graces of the men whose condolences he was prepared to betray, he rose to the po- | V held from March to July of 1900. Mys- terious leakages that bafHed the most thorough investigation and threatened the disruption of the organization fi- naHy led to the creation of an execu- tive committee with full power to act. l The inception of this committee prov ed both solution of the problem and the salvation of the union which be- came reanimated with new life and vigor and increased in numerical strength; it must be borne in mind that these events occurred fully IS l months prior to the Western Electric l and Stromberg- Carlson difficulty.
 About July ,s1901, Thurmann's real character was discovered F. J. Lynch, international president, pre- ferred charges against 44im as a spy; 1 after fair trial he was convicted and expelled, vowing vengeance in vile l terms. On January 31st 1902. the l lockout at Stromberg- Carlson Tele-
 phone Manufacturing company oc-
 cured, involving 45 men. 3S polishers
 and moulders, which fact in itself l is evidence that the mouldefs' inter
 ests were not sufficient to even war
 rant such methods as later accused Of
 new character in the person of All
 bert Fridley now appeared on the
 scene, who through pity was appoint l ed on picket duty with three others.
 who soon found other jobs, leaving
 Fridley to do guard duty alone The
 discontented spirit he displayed was
 severely rebuked by Business Agent
 Jacob E. Johnson. On March IS, 1902.
 the brass moulders struck at the West
 ern Electric, and the following month l Lars Hansen. an aged man employed
 as enunciator at the, Western Electric, was shot in the back while crossing Jackson street viaduct on his way home from work about 5 D. n1.. pol i isher. Thomas Sturch, was arrested l for the shooting, but released on pre- l 1iminary examination. Thurman at 1 this time was employed at Hallen's
 brass foundry on Canal street. Besides pursuing his duties with the Turner agency, he had drawn about him con- l genial spirits whom Fridleye shortly
 joined, having lost his employment with l the union. The entire coterie gradual | ly secured situations at the Western Electric; one of them, Shoot by name,
 entered the service of I. V. Parks as detective and decoy for $70 per month. On July 23 Thurman, in company with
 Klenzendorf, visited the down town district. On return from an errand which demanded his attention, Klen-
 zendorf was informed that Thurman
 had been assaulted. He immediately
 procured warrants for the arrest of
 Johnson and William H. Mangan,
 though on trial he testified to having
 been struck by a mythical parsonage
 named Andrew Andersen, who was
 never located. Before this matter came
 to hearing indictments for conspira- cy were served on Jacob E. Johnson,
 William H. Mangan, William L. Ma
 loney, Gus Johnson, Gustave Hoppe, Thomas H. Christy, Harry Forbes An drew Anderson, Charles l.. Smpot, Les lie and Smith. The identity of Ander-
 son or Leslie was n4yer established The furor raised by the press that the Forbes mentioned was the famed pu-