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nydus/The Pinkerton Labor SpyPublic

This work examines the operational methods of the Pinkerton Detective Agency and its involvement in labor disputes, specifically the Cripple Creek strike and the legal case against Moyer, Haywood, and Pettibone. The author details the activities of various undercover operatives and argues that the agency functions as an essential tool for the capitalist class in its conflict with organized labor.

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Chapter XXV.

deporting them from the State. We really wonder what this emergency was. DID THEY FEAR THAT A COLORADO COURT WOULD REFUSE TO EXTRADITE THE UNION LEADERS ON THE STRENGTH OF ORCHARD'S CONFESSION AND THEIR DECAYED MOLLY MAGUIRE REPUTATION? WHAT, THEN, IF EXTRADITION WERE REFUSED? CANNOT A GALLOWS BE ERECTED IN THE STATE OF COLORADO, IN WHICH STATE, ACCORDING TO MANAGER McPARLAND'S OWN WORDS, HE COULD HANG THEM HIGHER THAN HAMAN FOR THE COMMISSION OF FULLY A DOZEN ATROCIOUS MURDERS?

And if Manager McParland could convict Messrs. Moyer, Haywood and Pettibone in their home State for the commission of a dozen atrocious murders, why is it, we ask, that this arch-enemy of the Western Federation of Miners chose, instead, to kidnap these men on merely one charge, and that, not a direct charge of murder, but rather an indirect and hazy charge of conspiracy? Is it possible that Mr. McParland is such a patriotic and public-spirited citizen of the State of Colorado that he would

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