The Connecticut labor news., 1922-11-03
he could do so but that he has lent assistance to help those that deserved

he could do so but that he has lent assistance to help those that deserved ! 1t.
 During the many trying days of the early part of this country's entry into 1 the world war he was an active work l CT to help get into shape the great civilian army that was provided by national legislation. He was chairman of the board that was in the district wherein he resided. Many times l through lack of a proper understand ing by those who had charge of the i selective process certain people that
 had not the legal citizenship papers in their possession were treated to cer- l tain forms of arbitrary action by board members throughout this coun- l try, and 1t took men of the specific trained mind such as Mayor FitzGer- a1d possessed to hold court as 1t were and have the proper evidence gone over at these meetings so that no man was treated with other than his rights as guaranteed, and how well he done his work among these foreign born people, when he was a candidate for
 mayor of the city of New Haven that the district wherein he resided gave him wonderful tribute by the
 great number of votes cast for him. At all of the great meetings that were held in this city and state during the dark days of the war to organize the proper government agencies and to promote the loans demanded by the government, Mayor FitzGerald trav , eled to all corners of the state and by his voice and influence brought great cooperation to the end that Connecti- cut made history to be proud of. Many times he claim has heer
 made that Mayor FitzGerald has been
 an absolutely. biased friend of the or ganized wage earners of Connecticut,
 and to this claim wish to state that anyone that makes this statement
 does so to hurt Mayor FitzGerald in
 so far as his political aspirations are
 concerned for 1t has been my exper- fence as an official of the organized labor movement to know that many
 times when advice has been sought
 by many of our organizations from
 Mayor FitzGerald that he never hesi-
 tated to talk in very plain and un
 derstanding way to his clients if they
 were wrong. Many times he told us
 that our proposals were unfair and
 showed us a better way to go about
 proposed readjustment His search of
 records in order to convince his client
 age has been of the painstaking order
 and still with the claim being made
 that he Is one-sided in favoring a few.
 Those that have gone through an ex-
 perience of advising with him readily will recall that he has been fair and that is all that could be desired by
 fair-minded people.
 Very few of the labor organizations of the city of New Haven have not had the experience at one time or an
 other of his super-service, and also
 it must be remembered that this serv- ice has been rendered practically free
 to them.
 The republican party has been in
 power through republican governor
 of the state for as far back as the year
 1885 for period of B years, the ex- ceptlon being the four years that Hon.
 Simeon E. Baldwin was governor,
 and even though Connecticut being
 one of the small states of the Union,
 it is one of the largest populated states by wage earners that there is
 in the United States. Still it's legis1a-
 ton for the benefit of the wage earn
 CTS forms a foul history, and it took
 a democratic governor to put on the
 statute books the only progressive piece of legislation that has been
 passed in all these long years. I refer
 to the Worknen's Compensation law
 of Connecticut together with it's occu-
 pational disease clauses, makes 1t the
 second finest protective statute that exists in the states; the state of Cali fornia being the exception; and it took
 democratic governor to put his