The San Francisco call., 1907-06-30

letters thus brought into court We're not
an OF those in Friedman's possession.
Borah and Hawley demanded an oppor-
tunity to examine all the others and
Dsrrow promised to have copies of the
whole lot made and given 10 them as
Wen as TO the judge tonight.
Things had been dragging along slow
ly and without much interest before
Friedman was called, and more people
were watching the clock than were Civ
ing attention 10 the proceedings. Only
very few In the audience knew what
Friedman was going 10 tell, and he at
tracued no special attention when he
was sworn. But just as soon as it
was developed that he had been a
Ptnkerton and was going 10 give away
the correspondence Of MCFARLAND and
10 take notice.
COURTROOM Is AMUSED
A general broad grin pervaded the
courtroom as the audience grasped the
full meaning Of what was going on.
There was even a suggestive twinkle in
The eyes OF the jurors-that hard
headed bunch Of farmers, who have
listened TO the horrible. the tragic, the
ErotesQue and the merely trivial and
tedious alike, with solmen gravity and
sober seriousness. The idea Of the
tectiVes In so many union camps,
should themselves have been the vic
TINS Of plant, appealed to every man
there. low hum rose over the room
as half Of the crowd turned TO tho other
'half and whispered, Hoist by their
s own petard."
3 Friedman responded quickly and dis
tnctly TO Darrow's Questions and they
got down TO business from the start.
fle said that he had been a stenOg-
rapher In the Pinkerton office in Den
Yer from 1891 TO 1905. He worked par
tcularly for Mcfarland. manager Of
the western division Of the Pinkertons.
Ills principal duty was to handle the
correspondence Of MCFARLAND, and when
that did not occupy ali his time he
helped out i'm the preparation Of re-
ports OF operatives.
These reports came in daily, as rule
from each operative and were written
in any and all sorts Of shapes. The
stcnograp phcr made to typewritten cop
copies Of each report, one Of which was
mailed to the client interested and the
other retained in the Office files. Fried
man. smadc an extra copy. which he kept
himself, Of the reports he handled. but
because Of the irregularity with which
he DID that work did not have a com
plete or consecutive file Of the reports
OF any operative on any detail
The ONCE was mixed up, as he put it,
with the strike Of the smeltermen at
Colorado City in 1905. which was the
beginning Of the great strike of that
sumner in the Cripple Creek district
They had an operative named A H
Crane. known as No ,. in the Colorado
City union. working as a smelterman
Crane became secretary Of the union
and chairman Of the strike committee
His connection with the Pinkertons be
came known to the union men and he
lost his federation job very promptly.
REPORTS OF OPERATIVES
After that the Pinkertons sent opera
tive Joe Gadden TO Colorado City. who
did his best to get into the union, but
could not make it, Friedman said that
Charles H. Reimer. who was a member
of the union in Cripple Creek, was also
2 PinkertOn
George ". Riddell. the Telluride man
who was elected president Of a union
ia Utah recently, but was prevented
from taking his seat as a delegate at
the federation convention now proceed
ing in Denver. was operative number
30 Riddeu was one OF the most OBJ
streperous men in the Telluride trou-
bles and was deported by the mill
tia and citizens alliance men there
several times
T. J. Couibear. another member Of
the union at Florence, Colorado, was
Piukerton and was elected TO Office by
the union. Philadelpher p. Bailey, op-
erative number g. was a member Of
Victor union number %. Another
named Suplow belonged TO the union.
An operative named Benjer was
member Of both the western federation
and the united mine workers. He was
,ieDorted from Trinidad. Colo. during
the strike Of coal miners there.
Frank =. Cochran was member Of
the union at Keswick, Cal A. W.
f-rstfas. operative number ~, was de-
tailed bv MCFARLAND TO get into the
union at GIObeville, q suburb Of Den
yer when the smeltermen there went
on strike. and became so popular with
the members that he was elected its
vice president, then president and then
deIevate to the federation convention.
when the strike came he was chair
man Of the relief committee. He was
reporting to MCFARLAND every day and
running his relief committee in ac-
.,-ordance with McParland's instruc-
tors. MCFARLAND directed him at first
20 give out very liberal relief in order
10 drain the funds Of the union. When
mat did not have the desired effect,
MCFARLAND changed his tactics and di-
rected Gratias 10 cut down the allow
ance Of the strikers, telling those who
complained that the relief was too lit
tie and that he was acting under the
instructions Of Haywood, who objected
10 the large bills.
LETTERS INTRODUCED
Friedman testified IN general that
the federation Pinkertons were in
structed to report in as much detail as
POSSIBLE what the union men did and
said and to report very fully also
everything that was done and said in
the union meetings. Robert M. Smith,
operative 3S, became q member Of the
united mine workers and was appoint
ed national organizer by John
Mitchell
In preparation for their introduction
in evidence Friedman Identified a
bunch Of reports by Gratias on the
GIobeville strike, q bunch by Smith
from Trinidad. a letter from the gen
eral manager at San Francisco to Nc
palland, some reports from Operative
Revmer from Cripple Greek, a bunch
from Victor and some from Londoner,
the assistant superintendent Of the
Denver Office, who had been working
at Victor
There was PIE OF these altogether.
and there was q lot Of handling Of
them among the lawyers, but, Of