^Afterwards Brother WiHi^^T'?, the gifted Nc hirmorals and took to cIx-:E^I<iiig heavily, ai 5!^«1^ no longer render g-o <•=.<«= service, the Ag, ce^emoniousl? discharged I^i«a, and replaced 1 another operative.
176 The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
President Mitchell finally decided to make one more desperate effort to capture Rock Springs, and sent down five or six organizers at one time to accomplish this purpose. One or two of these men were Italians. President Mitchell figured that the company would be unable to follow up the movements and actions of so many men, and that success would at length be theirs. The organizers were this time also told to hunt up BROTHER WILLIAMS, who would be a Sj^luable help to them in their work.
BROTHER WILLIAMS probably had the time of his life with these organizers, as he led them such a merry dance that they finally dared not make another move, so convinced did they become that the company stood in collusion with some evil spirit. After a number of meetings had been easily thwarted through No. 15's prompt reports by 'phone or in person (at night) to Supt Black, the organizers hit upon a novel scheme, namely, to arrange a meeting in the hills, outside of the city, after midnight.
The organizers, for the fiftieth time, secretly invited a number of coal miners to attend the meeting, and No. 15 secretly notified Supt. Black of the proposed midnight exodus. A number of miners came out to the place of meeting, and the organizers were about to congratulate themselves on their shrewdness, when suddenly a few company officials strolled up, and sat down to participate in the deliberations of the assembly. The minute the miners beheld the latest arrivals, they stampeded for home.