The Connecticut labor press., 1919-06-28
FITZGERALD GETS
 FINE OFFER AS
 A STRIKEBREAKER
Agency on Orange Street, New Haven, Fooled by Active
 Business Agent of Union.
DIDN'T KNOW HIS MAN
Polish Workman Reports to Machinists Union After He
 Refused an Offer.

There is no sign on the door of Room
 5 on the second floor at No. 87 Orange
 street, New Haven but the place is the office of the Manufacturers Protective
 Service, with a man named Shadee as manager. Shady IS right" said an or ganized labor man familiar with the
 office. The place has been suspected
 for some time by men connected with union labor organizations in New Ha- ven who secured business cards of the manager and the title of the concern
 Manufacturers Protective Service, did not look good to them. Inquiries made
 failed to disclose that much business was being transacted at No. 87 Orange street and other tenants of the build ing said that as far as they observed there was not much business transacted i'll Room or at least there did not seem to be many visitors there. The man ager was said to visit the office ire quent1y, driving up in an automobile but he did not apparently have many callers. No one who looked like strikebreaker was ever seen to enter the place.
 Through an advertisement inserted by the concern, a Polish machinist called at the place and said he had seen the advertisement ir newspaper. He was told that he could have job and he was wanted to go among his countrymen in the factories and mills in Ansonia and Waterbury, try to prevent the men from organizing, SOW dissension among them and make a report for the benefit of manufacturers about what the plans of the men were and what they would be expected to do. The Polish machinist declined any such job and reported the facts to his union.
 A representative of the Machinists' Union went to the office of the Manu- facturers' Protective Service with Frank A. Fitzgerald, business agent of the Hoisting and Portable Engineers Union of New Haven and a very active mem Der of the Building Trades Council of New Haven. He is on the Chamber of Commerce committee of the Building Trades Council and influential in the state organization of the building trades. He took an active part in the recent annual convention of the Con- necticut Federation of Labor at Meri- den and in the deliberations of the New Haven Trades Council his voice is often heard. He has the earmarks of trades at-arms ever had to ask him If he had the five labels on his clothing before entering the meeting hall.
 This is the man that the superinte11-- dent of the Manufacturers Protective Service made an offer to. It was sin1i- lar to the offer made to the Polish ma chinist although Mr. Fitzgerald was not asked to go among the Poles with the propaganda of the "protective seryice" He was only asked to SOW dissension among the workmen, learn what they were doing about organizing and keep the manufacturers informed on the of the men on strike.
 MT. Fitzgerald then told the superin- tendent just who he was and the super apo1ogized for making the offer to one who is identified with or ganized labor. In the offer to the Pol ish machinist and to Mr. Fitzgerald, 1t was announced that neither man should join the union.
 Men connected with organized labor in this state when seen by a reporter for The Connecticut Labor Press said that they believed that some manufact- urers were behind this agency in New Haven and they did not think that much was being accomplished by it. The was formerly employed in machine shop in this state. He was in Waterbury early this week and was to be there in connection with the strike.
 President Patrick F. O'Meara of the Connecticut Federation of Labor in his interesting address at the banquet of the New England Typographical Union at the Co1onnade on Monday night told of the visit of MT. Fitzgerald to the agency and it made a hic hit