The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-10-06
JAMES FARLEY TELLS HOW ne
CAN SMASH THE THREAT
ENED STRIKES.
In Nine Years He Has Grown Wealthy
at Singular and Dangerous
Occupation.

Il
sign on the door announces only the
Farley Detective Agency but Farley
admits that the bulk of his business
will be strike breaking.
Il have never lost a strike, and
have broken more than 20 during the
past three years." is the boast of this
man Il studied the matter for many
years before | entered into this sort
of work-running roads in spite of the
flats of unions and it is now a ques-
ton of SYSTEM.
With his magnificent country place
at Plattsburg, y. Y his string of trot-
ting horses. 4 residence the finest in
the town and an income from his in
vested wealth more than sufficient for
his needs-and they are by no means
small-"Jim" Farley is not risking his
life nowadays for nothing. In nine
years he has made Il fortune figured
well up in six figures, and all of it
came from Strike-breaking.
His charges for breaking a strike
are enormous They would make even
an Overpaid lawyer gasp. But Jim
Farley is the only man in the world
who has at his beck and call an army
of experienced strike brea kers-men
who come to him, when he gives the
word. from every section of the coun-
try His organization is an extraordi-
nary one ana Farley is an extraordi-
nary man.
Farley has been pursued by lynch
ing mobs, has been shot at hundreds of
times, has been in scores of rough-and-
tumble fights, has been showered with
stones and clubs, but there isn't a scar
on his face
Farley looks like Il prosperous bank
clerk or business man. He dresses
we'll, almost fashionably. He has the
brisk, clean-cut look of the well-to-
do northern New Yorker and he
speaks like a Yankee. The one stlik-
ing character index of the man is his
eye. Anybody who has met the western
''man-killer" would recognize in Far
ley the qualities of determination and
daring. His eyes are = peculiar light
blue, mingled with gray. large. clear
and steady.
Farley is over six feet in height,
weighs 2l0 pounds and is so hard and
muscular that he looks thin. He has
been bald all over the top of his head
ever since MS tWenties. He is less than
Al years old.
Il have about 80 men on my regular
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS who are able to
take up any kind of work, from run
hlng a car to ferreting out any kind
of mystery" said Farley in a recent
interview. AT the same time I have =
list of about 10000 names of men who
nave at times worked for me or who
nave been examined and been found
competent | have organized a regular
commissary staff and am prepared to
even furnish BARRIERS for the men en-
pioyed to work during strike times T
figure on one barber for every 30
men. and cooks and walters in pro-
portion.
1t was an accident in a wav. that
made me take IN tho husinaSs of
breaking strikes During the car
strike in Brooklyn in 1895 I was en-
ployed as a sort of foreman ovar o
small number of non-union men That
was the first time l ever had ANYTHING
to do with fighting a strike. The ex-
citement pleased me. and when the
strike was broken Il IF tho mar, ,,.,,o
had gone with me on cars through the
crowds asked me to take their names
and addresses and call unon then,
again the next time 7 WAS mixed nm in
a strike. This request showed mo that
there are a large number of men ALWAYS