To lull suspicion still more, the operative, in accordance with instructions from the Denver Agency, religiously kept away from the union meetings. In
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a short time, his brother molders, noticing his indifference to the union, began to remonstrate and labor with him, and after much persuasion finally induced him to come to a meeting.
Little by little the operative began to warm up to the idea of the union as a benefit to the workingman, soon became devoted to it, and so very skillfully did he play his part, that af the first election which occurred after his advent in Pueblo, his comrades elected him secretary of the Pueblo Iron Molders' Union.
In this case, as in many others, the wit of the Agency triumphed over the suspicious vigilance of the labor union.