The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-28
THE PINKERTONS
Assisted oapitalin Seventy Strikes
in Twenty-six Years.
THE SENATORIAL INVESTIGATION
Completed in New York.-Tho Com
mlttce Holds a Session In the Pink
ertons' omccs-.Robert Pinkcrton
on tho stand.--what Ho Had to
Say.

j euGLI VI HGLSuSJ Wdn IAO ShAVh AiIuAoA
tor yesterday at the final session of the
senate subcommittee that has been
inquiringinto the employment OF armed
detectives during labor disputes. The
session was held in the Office of Clar-
ence A. Seward, Al Nassau street. Mr..
Seward is the lawyer for tho Pinkerton
Detective Agency. He was represented
to-day by ". D. Guthrie, his partner.
Senator ]. II. Gallinger, of New
Hampshire, presided. He and Senator
PETER arrived on a special train over
the Pennsylvania railroad at Z o'clock
in the morning, accompanied by ]. F.
Haig, OF Kansas, the official steno-
grapher. The other members OF the
committee, who were absent, are sena-
tors Hansbrough. OF Dakota; FELTON,, OF
California; White, OF Louisiana, and
David B. Hill, of New York.
Robert A. 'Pinkerton, OF the New'York
branch OF the Pinkerton Detective
Agency, was the first witness. He wa
taken in hand by Senator Gallinger,
while Senator PETER stroked his pic
turesque beard blandly and cooked his
head to one side to listen.
PINKERToNs SERVE IN SEVENTY STRIKES.
1.-THE agency" said Mr.. Pinkerton"in
reply to questions, "began to furnish
men in strike difficulties twenty-six
years ago. Since then we have fur
nished men in seventy strikes"
There was q blazing fire in the stove
making the room very hot, and at this
point Stenographer Haig grew pale and
complained OF faintness. The hearing
was suspended and Mr.. Haig went out,
returning in q short time still looking
i'll, but saying he was better.
The hearing was resumed and Mr.
Pinkerton was asked to mention some
of the strikes in which his men were
employed to guard property. He
named about half a dozen, Including
the New York Central strike and the
Homestead strike. On the latter occa-
sion 3O5 men had been sent to Home
stead. He then proceeded to tell about
the dynamite in the disturbances fol-
lowing the Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy strike, and Senator PETER, lean
ing back in his chair, said he had some
questions to ask. Crossing his long
legs and stroking his beard, Senator
PETER said:
THE NUMBER OF STRIKES INCREASING.
"From your experience do you think
the number Of strikes is increasing?"
Eyes, sir"
The senator looked mildly shocked.
Then he wanted to know if any public
officials in q city or town had eve made
application for Plnkerton men.
'"Yes," was the reply, "but not in
large cities. Generally, however, the
applications come from private corpora
tons or individuals"
"From whom did you know that
there was a representative OF the sheriff
ut Homestead?"
From the Carnegie people,"
Senator PETER put his finger to his
cheek and thought a moment, while the
witness sat with his hand to his head.
Then he said, sharply:
docs your agency keep a supply OF
arms?"
of arms, but all the arms in our posses
sion we're forwarded from Chicago dur
ing the Homestead strike. All the
rifles, about 210, werc sent"
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS AS DIsTURBERs.
Senator PETER asked a great many
questions as to the persons who caused
disturbances during the strikes. He
looked panied when the witness said
that every time in his experience he
had found it was members OF labor Or
CARNATIONS.
"Do you think they do so as repre-
%sentatiyes OF labor organizations 2"
~ do not say that. l know, however,
that a mar admitted that the men who
laid Instructions on the tracks OF the
New York Central railroad during the
strike received money from the head
men OF the strike in Albany"
Senator PETER looked shocked again
aud asked: SIS that the reason you hold
the labor organizations responsible?"
az did not say that. l only state the
fact. The confessions Of the people
who were arrested showed that the
people who placed the distractions
were members of labor organizations,
knights OF Labor"
EMPLOYEES EMPLOY NO ~PINEEEToNs.
Senator PETER frightened up when
tho witness added: 81 don't mean to
pay that these organizations approved
of it."
"Did you ever know OF labor organi-
cations employing Pinkerton men to
spy out the doings of employers2"
Never"
Senator PETER looked triumphant,
The witness said he had no feeling
against the labor organizations. He re-
garded them as q good thing under good
leadership.
Capt. Frederick H. Hinde, OF the
Pinkerton agency, who was shot in tho
thigh while on the Pinkerton barge at
Homestead, was the next witness. he
was examined by Senator PETER and
gave an account Of the proceedings up
to the time he was shot.
"When I was shot," he said, ~ fell,
and | think the Pinkertons opened fire
then. l only distributed twelve rifles
among them. The first shots fired at
us were IRON a skiff before we came in
sight OF Homestead. Before l was shot
l thought we might drive the mob back
with clubs, though it was armed with
revolvers.
DIDN'T KNOW THEY WIRE PiNKs.
~ wish it to DO understood that the
people who attacked us did not know
that we we're Pinkctton men. They
thought we were non.union men and
shouted MScnbs'I at us. All the Pinker-