42 The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
weight is the statement of a mayor and city council as opposed to the word of a corporation general manager?
The first acts of the troops, upon their arrival at the scene, proved what kind of peace they were sent down there to preserve. They drove the union pickets from their posts, invaded the union hall while the men were holding a regular meeting, and marched up and down the quiet streets of Colorado City with a swagger. To describe fully the foolish sayings and doings of the military at Colorado City and Governor Peabody at Denver would take too much valuable space. Therefore, we will, instead, see what Manager MacNeill did to repair the loss he sustained in the exposure of No. S.
The Agency felt the exposure more keenly than Mr. MacNeill, as it meant decreased earnings for them. They at once began to hunt for a man capable and willing to resume the operation, and in a few weeks found what they were looking for in the person of Joseph F. Gadden, styled No. 43.
Supt. Fraser, of the Denver Agency, then wrote Manager MacNeill that he had an excellent operative available to take up the thread of No. s*s work. Mr. MacNeill replied by return mail to send him forward at once. And go forward he did.
But he had a hard time right from the very start. The union men were on the alert and suspicious of every new-comer, and in order to further protect themselves, passed a resolution that no stranger to town be admitted to membership in the union.
The following report of No. 43 will give the reader an idea, how suspicious the Colorado City smeltermen were of strangers at this time. The romantic vileness of the detective trade is well brought out with