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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.

EXPLOITS AGAINST THE WESTERN FEDERATION OF MINERS. Since Manager McParland was a trusted Molly Maguire, it naturally follows, if our process of reasoning is correct, that if it took him three years to unearth the crimes of DWARFS AND PIGMIES, that we are making him a very generous allowance for his increased detective abiHty when we insist that SINCE HE WAS NOT A TRUSTED MEMBER OF THE FEDERATION OF MINERS, THAT IT SHOULD HAVE TAKEN HIM, EVEN WITH EXPERT ASSISTANCE, AT LEAST ONETHIRD AS LONG TO GET AT THE SECRETS OF THIS GIGANTIC GANG OF MASTERCRIMINALS.

From our reasoning it follows that it should have taken Manager McParland AT LEAST ONE YEAR OF BRILLIANT, UNPARALLELED DETEC-

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TIVE WORK TO GET EVEN QUESTIONABLE EVIDENCE AGAINST THE

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