unconscious art. The episode of "the young man John" deserves not to slumber in the Pinkerton archives.
The Pinkerton Labor Spy. 43
Dear Sir: —
OPERATIVE NO. 43 REPORTS: Colorado City, Colo., Thursday, April 9, 1903.
This morning I walked around town for a while and met a few of the mill men, but nothing of interest occurred. At 9.30 I helped a brother of the secretary of the imion here, who has a van, move a lady to Colorado Springs. He questioned me all the while regarding myself and my business, but of course learned nothing.
After dinner I met Gilbert, Nichels, Burr, Elder and Aberlene at the Hoffman bar, where we had some drinks. Some of the men got the drinks on credit from Hames, while others borrowed some cash of him.
There was considerable talk about the club house to be built by the U. S. R. & R. Company, some claiming it would be a good thing, and others claiming it was done simply to get the good feeling of the people here.
I was with these men quite a while when Nichels and Elder left us and went to the pool hall, and I went to my room until supper time.
After supper I met a young man, tall, dark-complexioned, who wears a stiff hat, and who told me he was one of the first three men discharged from the Standard Mill. I have not yet learned his name, but they call him John. We went to the pool hall and there met Gilbert, Elder, DeLong, King and Epperson. Epperson and DeLong wanted me to play pool and they took off their coats. I saw it was their scheme to get me to take off my coat, and I handed it to the young man John, who went to the other end of the hall with the garment and went through the