A number of the mine owners employed Agency operatives to watch the Cripple Creek unions, and below we will quote a report of operative Philander B. Bailey, No. 9, who was employed by the Woods Investment Company, and worked as a practical miner
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on the Wild Horse Mine. The report of a union meeting ought to be blood-curdling. Let us see what a refined spy, who abbreviates bad language, says.
*TDear Sir: —
OPERATIVE NO. 9 REPORTS:
Victor, Colo., Saturday, February 21st, 1903.
I reported at the mine for work this morning, and at 7 A. M. we went below. I worked in the Underhand Stope on the 8th level. Francis Herman, James Wasley and Tom Gaynor worked in this stope to-day. Herman spoke (as he always does) in harsh terms about the mine owners and superintendents. He also said there are a lot of S. O. B.'s in this camp, who are ever ready to do the mine owners' bidding. To this Wasley said, "Why in Hell don't the union drive these scabs out of the camp! If they (the so-called scabs) were in Butte City, Montana, they would have to hit the grit, and that quickly, too." Wasley came from Butte to this district.
We worked until 11 A. M., when we went to surface for lunch. Nothing of interest occurred during lunch time, and at 11.30 A. M. we went below to work again. We worked until 3.30 P. M., when we went to surface and home, arriving in Victor at 4 P. M.
After supper I went up-town and spent the evening about the resorts of the men until 7.30 P. M. During the evening I met Arthur Evans, Jack