The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1907-07-04
AS STRICT UNION MINERS
Pinkerton Detectives Posed in Order to
Secure Evidence Against Western
Labor Federation.

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Friedman, the young Russian ssenog>
rapher, who left the employ Of the
Piuk=rtoa agency a. Denver to write
a book in which he published a GER
tain correspondence CT the agency
that passed through his hands, was
again the principal figure at the Steun-
enberg murder trial. More than half
of the courts day was occupied in
reading tS the jury copies Of the docu.
ment which Friedman took from the
Pinkerton records. These were chiefly
daily reports of secret agents operat-
ing as spies among the unions and
union men at Cripple Creek, Victor,
Globeville, Colorado City, Trinidad and
Denver show q complete surveillance
of the Western Federation Of Miners
and United Mine Workers Of America
during the labor troubles in Colorado
in 10000. Pinkerton men sat in the
federation convention in Denver In
1904, reporting all proceedings
None of the reports that were pro-
duced by Friedman and read to the
jury by Clarence Darrow contained
o:her than general references to the
collateral issues of the trial, but they
were offered in subStantiation of the
counter-claim of the defense that the
Pinkerton agency conspired for the de-
struction of the Western Federation OF
Miners and the lives Of its leaders.
The prosecution offered no opposi-
ton to any feature of Friedmans tes-
tinmory and no objection to the intro
duction of any one Of the documents
tha; the defense obtained through him,
and when Friedman was handed over
for cross-examination endeavored to
ascertain if Friedman had any more
reports or letters bearing On the gen.
eral issue.
1t attacked Friedman on the ground
that he iad played the Pinkertons
false, had violated his pledge to them
and had stolen the documents which
he produced, but the witness would
not admit that he had stolen the pa
pers and~would not allow, Serator Bo-
ran to call him "Pinkerton." He
insisted that it was not stealing to
take information that had been OBJ
tained by fraud and deceit of secret
service men and declared that his pur-
pose in which he informed the people
Of the methods of the agency fully
justified anything that he had done.
He said that if he had known that this
trial was coming up he would have
taken more letters and reports. Sen
ator Borah pressed him to tell just
what records there were in the Pin
kerton Office at Denver bearing direc:-
ly on this case, and while the witness
said he could not tell him CT any par
ticular one, he remembered many let
ters written by Detective Mcfartland,
in which all manner of crimes were
laid at the door of the Western Fed
era;ion OF Miners.
Another interesting witness was Jas.
1. Wallace, an attorney OF Cripple
Creek, who served with the militia,
first as a private and then as a>lieu-
tenant during the strike of 10000. He
related several instances as tending
to show the misuse of the powers Of
the militia by the mine owners; gave
the criminal records of some Of the
gun fighters imported by the mine
owners; told of the working of the
card system; recited the circumstanc-
es connected with the looting Of the
union stores and a newspaper Office