Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1907-05-11
Arrest of Miners Said to be
Scheme to DiSOrganize
Western Federation.
CRIPPLE CREEK EXAMPLE
OF SYSTEMS WORK
Confession of Convict Harry Or
Chdrd Is Placed on Par With
Affidavit of Jas Mckinney.

New York, May 11.-"Dean of
Black Sleuthdom" is what James
MCFARLAND. western superintendent of
Pinkertons' National Detective agency,
is called in a book written by his
former secretary. Morris Friedman,
who takes up the defense of Meyer,
Haywood and Pettibone, leaders or
the Western Federation of Miners
whose trial is Just commencing at
Boise, Idaho, for the assassination of
eX-Gov. Frank Steunenberg 1t IS
professed TO be a complete expose of
the Pinkerton system and Pinkerton
campaigns against organized labor by
one who has been on the inside
THE Pinkerton Labor Spy" is the
name of the book, which has been
rushed into print in a cheap form by
Gaylord Wiltshire, the wealthy social
ist publisher of New York, formerly
of California. He heralds the book
as one that will help to save the lives
OF Meyer, Haywood and Pettibone.
Friedman, 1t is announced by Will
shire, wrote the book after having
his sense of justice outraged. The
books is filled with what are claimed
t. be copies of records and letters
from the western headquarters of the
Pinkertons at Denver.
Friedman calls the Western FEEDER
alton of Miners the leading labor or
ganization in the west He adds:
The United Mine Workers of Amer
lea as a whole is larger than the
Western Federation, but it's ultra
conservatism borders on the torpor
born of extreme timidity, and in no
way does it resemble its sister union
in Vigor energy and indomitable
courage. In the authors mind,
seemingly, the coal miners, compared
to the ore miners and smelter en-
ployes of the west, are mollycoddles.
Its readiness to resent the smallest
encroachments on the rights of its
humblest members" he adds. "has
naturally aroused the apprehension
OF mine owners; and these fears have
been studiously famed into flames of
blind and furious hatred by the Pin
kerton agency to obtain business"
Friedman goes on to say that Jas.
MCFARLAND has led a war of exter-
mination on the Western Federation
of Miners. The war, the writer says,
took the form of placing the mark of
Of Cain upon the forehead of every
member, and in demonstrating that
this band of cut-throats was directed
by a secret inner circle composed of
the leaders in the union"
Friedman deVotes much of his book
to an effort to show that the Pinker-
ton agency itself is handled by an
inner circle, consisting of the Pinker-
tons and their cabinet.
The concern is alleged to have fat
tened wonderfully in the last three
years, owing to specializing labor
espionage. The operating departm ent
Is described as being military in its
discipline. The classes of operatives
mentioned are Special" general
and secret" The specials are out
siders put temporarily upon isolated
cases. The general operatives de-
vote their time to criminal work, and
the secret operatives are alleged to be
the labor operatives. The latter are
planted in factories and mines TO
mingle with the men, spy on them,
and discourage organization.
These men are known by numbers
only, but Friedman claims to reveal
the Identity of many of them.
Friedman admits that these men
have done wonderfully clever work,
but he says they have all been baf-
hed I'm the attempt to demonstrate the
existence Of an inner circle in the
Western Federation of Miners He
gives what purports to be copies of
the special reports Of secret oper-
atives
The book says McParand gave one
"No. 43" instructions to break up a
S+AAfANtA uA4-DlAs ne was lISL 10 cause
trouble between the leaders. This
he accomplished He was next TO
gitate for strike benefits, so the mill
men would demand aid from the
Western Federation.
Friedman writes that this operative
was instructed to make the bills for
relief as large as possible, so as to
drain the treasury of the Western
Federation. ThereupOn his apparent
NOerality toward the men caused
them to choose him president of the
union and later a delegate to the
Western Federation. As the fedora
tlou was objecting 10 the relief bills,
he was instructed by MCFARLAND, says
the book, 10 cut the relief down until
i- would almost starve the strikers,
and 10 throw the blame ON Secretary
Haywood
The writer tries 10 build up an ar
zument against the Meyer Haywood,
PrtJiboue prosecution from an at
tempt 10 wreck a Florence a Cripple
Greek train on November l6, 1903.
A rail was loosened near Anaconda,
and the engineer stopped his train
just In time to escape disaster. This
was during the Cripple Greek strike.
There were uou-union men and some
union men on the train. Two men
acre arrested one of these. James
Mckinney, implicated prominent
mine leaders They were acquitted
al the trial Testimony for the de-
fense was that a railroad detective
had been seen tampering with the
track. The engineer admitted he had