business letter, wherein he shows the financial standing of each office under his charge. The financial summary is followed by a careful synopsis of the most important operations in progress at the different offices, accompanied by a critical review of the work of the various operatives and the assistant superintendent or superintendent in charge. Operations against the Western Federation of Miners or any other large and powerful labor union receive particular attention, and are the subjects of special remarks, plans and suggestions by the division manager in his business letter, which is sent personally to the general manager.
George D. Bangs, the general manager, is the practical head of the Agency, as the Messrs. Pinkerton have great confidence and faith in him, and very seldom, if ever, alter a ruling or decision made by him.
The reading of the voluminous general business
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letters, including the comments of the division managers and their semi-monthly personal reports, is but a part of the work and responsibility of the general manager, who, it is true, is helped in his work by a staff of assistants. The general manager, after reading over the different reports and business letters, either approves or disapproves of the plans and suggestions of the division managers; but ordinarily the recommendations of the managers are so well calculated to consummate the ends desired by the Agency that the general manager endorses everything they have to offer.
Every operation directed against prominent labor unions receives his particular attention, and in common with the division managers his chief aim and endeavor is to devise wa^s and means whereby the operatives can most effectively handicap, paralyze and destroy those labor organizations against whom the Agency has been hired to battle.