The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-06
CUNSHANNON TO SPEAK BEFORE
 MASS MEETING
Conference Last Evening Leads to Definite Plan 10 Fight
 Tuberculosis

Initial steps toward the organization of a society among working people of this city for the purpose of combat ing the white plague, were taken last night when State Tuberculosis Com missioner John F. Gunshannon of Hartford addressed a conference in the Common Council chamber at. the City Hall. MT. Gunshannon- explain ed what the formation of such a. so- c1ety should mean, how to go about organizing, and outlined present plans. The meeting last night was in the Blanchard of the Manufacturers As sociatfon; E. L. Graves of the Busi- ness Mems Association, and members of charitable organizations in the city attended.
 George F. Crawford, vice president of the Business Mems Association, was over invited MT. Gunshannon to come to Bridgeport next month when a. mass meeting of the Business Mems Association, the Board Of Trade and be held to further the cause.
 MT. Gunshanan said that this move ment was first started in the city of Hartford in 1905. when some 16,000 Wage-workers contributed to fund to care for. any of their number who may be affected with the dread dis this society has expended more than $25,00O and has provided treatment for about 500 people of which fully 100 have been restored to health.
 Nearly every city, said the speak CT, in the state has since organized to carry on this splendid work and there people contributing their mite to aid their sick brother or sister. The last city to organize in this movement was New Haven, and the first of July they had raised from about 10000 workers in the factories and stores over s10.O00. and they hope to care for at least 50 people every day in the year at some of the sanitorfunns.
 How To Organize.
 The best plan to form an organiza- tion is the one adopted in New Ha- ven where g. meeting of the Chaf1-a Der of Commerce a committee was ap- that was being done in the cities. of Hartford, New Britain, Waterbury and Meriden, and reported to that body the excellent results obtained sin those cities The result was they passed a resolution. asking / every manufacturing and mercantile estab- CTS in the factory to attend a meet ing and listen to the reports they had received, and to consider the for nation of such an organizations; and that city speaks for themselves.
 MT. Gunshanan said that he has ad- in Bridgeport on this question before and he knows that if they were given an opportunity in the factories to con- tribute, this city would equal if not surpass the work done in New Haven.
 The Overlook Plan. ( Tn Worcester Dr. Overlook devised a plan whereby the manufacturers would contribute to a. sanitorium for treat ment of their employees for a period of four months. This started in 19075 two years after the work had been carried on among the working people in our state The difference between the two plans is that the Worcester plan makes workers an ob- ject of charity, which they do not want, whereas the Connecticut plan makes them feel as though they are entitled to receive from the fund be- cause they are contributors to its It also prevents thelgood, honest work CTS from becoming a.. city or town charge.
 Mir Gunshanan said that he would be glad to meet representatives of the factories and stores as often as neces- sary to help them to organize; in fact the speaker said, that Bridgeport is the only large city in the state that has not an organization at the present time he was willing to double his efforts, because this state leads. every state in the Union in this move ment, among working people.