shortly be seen; and this in spite of the following statement of the Messrs. Pinkerton in a book published by the Agency in 1892, entitled "Pinkerton's National Detective Agency and its connection with the labor troubles at Homestead, Pennsylvania."
"We have always approved and sympathized with labor organizations when directed by honest, capable and conservative leaders. The law-abiding members have no quarrel with us, nor any grievance, or cause, or complaint against us. We have never violated any of their rights. Our detective branch may have sought to ascertain when they intended to strike; but it is only fair and proper that the employers should have this information."
If the Pinkerton Agency still holds to the above declaration, and to the best of our knowledge it does,
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then no bigger falsehood was ever flaunted in the face of the world. The work of No. 5, No. 43, No. 23, No. 9 and No. 42 is a decisive refutation of the Agency's lying statement, and their work which almost disrupted District No. 15 of the United Mine Workers of America will merely serve to illustrate that old proverbial saying, "Appearances are deceitful."