The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1907-09-21
P|NkER7ONS Get GOOD
ROAST FROM G0MPEuS
President of American Federation
Of Labor Exposes Despicable
Methods.
Shows How They Do Their Work.
Efforts to Destroy are I'm
potant and Unavailing.

WASHINGTON, u. C., Sept. I'm
the current Issue Of the Federationist,
the official organ of the American
Federation of Labor, President Comp
ers exposes the methods Of Pinkerton-
ism as employed by New York
agency He hands it out ir charac-
teristic fashion as follows:
We have often called attention to
the methods employed by the So
called detective Agencies Of which
the Pinkerton concern Is the most nos
torious; that they are not agencies to
detect crime, but rather unscrupulous
schemes to injure labor. Their repre-
sentatives secretly join unions Of
workmen, provoke trouble, and thus
show to employers the value" of such
service. Under the last Napoleon the
scheme of the Agent Provocateur first
took shape in France. The system
was to have spies of the Emperor join
any Association or group of men who
were suspected Of some desire for re-
form in the peoples or governmental
affairs. These Agents Provocateur
provoking agents) duty was to ap-
pear to be most violent in their de-
nunciation Of the crown and its
regime, and urge their comrades to
revolt Revolution was their watch
word. They would get the men in the
streets and shout with them while
secret reports were given to the mill
tary and civil authorities. The SOL
diery and the gendarmerie were then
conveniently at hand. That numbers
of men were killed in cold blood on
many occasions and others railroaded
tc prison for long terms years was
Of little moment, so long as the scala
wags got their pay and the throne
seemed made secure, even for a time.
That the Pinkertons and other So
called detective agencies copied and
fashioned their methods after the
French Agents Provocateur there is
not the slightest doubt. They ply
their rascality in the relations Of
workmen and employers. They enter
into negotiations with employers,
make themselves appear helpful, and
then their deviltry begins. Before
presenting this further we lay before
our readers circular from. one of
these concerns which but a few days
since came to us as shown in the
following:
indianapolis, Ind, July 30, 1907.
Mr.. Samuel Gompers, President
American Federation of Labor, Wash
ington, D. C.-Dear Sir and Brother:
inclose herein letter which is self
explanatory. With best wishes, I am,
yours truly,
JOHN MITCHELL,
President U. NJ. w. of A.
Enclosures:
P. L. Bergoff, Manager, l.. C. Berg
off, uperintendent, Telephone 4414
Bryant. The Bergoff Detective
Bureau. Civil and Criminal 1nvesti,
cations. Male and Female Operators
Sent to all Parts of the World, Shad-
owing, Locating, Investigating, and
Srving Legal Papers. 1881 Broadway,
Rooms 2O3, 204, 205 206. Case No.
New York. .190..
Dear Sir: This office is in posi-
ton to furnish your company with
thoroughly experienced motormen,
conductors, power house men, and in
fact all classes of labor which is re-
quired to run a street railway COM
pany, during the time of a strike. This
bureau has made q specially Of hand
ling strikes for over half a century and
our clients are among the largest cor
porations in the world. During the
| recent trouble between the steamboat
companies and the striking !ongshore-
men in New York city, this office
transported over 100000 men for the
different steamboat companies, and
supplied 1000 guards. ~ - ." u,
We also furnish men who work on
the inside-that is, for man to work
in your employ as motorman or con-
ductor, Join the union and obtain all
information he can about his fellow