Daily Arizona silver belt., 1907-08-16
sTRIKEBREAKING PAYS
Jim" Farley Has Country Home and
 His Check Is Good for $100,000.

Strikebreaker "Jim'' Farley ha, made his fortune and is paving the set tied way for life of ease. He is . horse lover and spends most of his tim, these days at his breeding farm d Plattsburg, N. Y., and makes occa sional trips to Kentucky in search oi fine stock. Farley is still a strike breaker, but he has shifted the person ally hazardous part of the business {, the hands of trusted lieutenants. He il sort of board of strategy all by him self, is Farley, and he will probably be breaking strikes until he dies.
 Harry II. Bowen, strikebreaker, hal made his thousands by fighting all owe the country for corporations against unions. He served the beef trust il Chicago; his recent campaign against the warning longshoremen on the dock' at New York netted him tidy fortune Bowen faced shots in tile famous collar and cuff strike at Troy.
 Like Farley, he has beautiful eoun try home. It is on the Jersey High lands, and his city apartments on Cen tral park are as luxuriously fitted out as those of a multimilionaire. He owns tenement houses in New York and Brooklyn.
 Farley and Bowen hold special insur anee policies on their lives for $l00,00C each.
 Strikebreaking has become to chiefs of corporations recognized business and they are in constant touch witt men like Farley and Bowen. Rail roads, street ear companies, machine works, and institutions employing large bodies of workmen keep strikebreakei bosses on the payroll even in time of peace. The instant the suggestion of 3 strike is made the strikebreaker boss is notified and sends his secret agents among the dissatisfied workmen. Then he begins to enlist men capable of working at this particular trade and holds them in readiness for a call They are under pay while waiting ord CTS.
 The handling of strikes is not planned in the offices of the corporation. Far ley and Bowen each have offices in big buildings on Upper B oadway. Far ley is content with little brass sign having on it "James Farley, Detect i've" Bowen screens his identity by the name' The Bowen-Po,t ,t Company. Strike breaking bosses, fo obvious reas ons, are not anxious to le conspicuous
 "In the last year I have received 5000 threatening letters,' said Farley to friend. "If they should stop com. ing now l would feel lonesome. The great danger in our business is when the actual strike is on. l have been shot at about twenty times, but only one shot struck me. ~
 The profits of Farley and Bowen come mainly from the increased wage paid per man furnished to break the strike. For instance, when the subway tie-up began twenty months ago, the motor man s pay was $3.25 a day, and the guards and train hands got from $l.75 to S2.25 a day. When breaking the strike, Farley received s day for each man he furnished, in addition to 5000 a day for personally supervis- ing and commanding the strikebreaking force. He paid his men $2.50 day.
 Farley says strikebreakers as rule are men of good character, and join his ranks because they are hard up for work. Bowen is reported to have 10000 men in all parts of the country ready to serve him at moments notice. Bowen's list includes 250 women, who were used in the shirt factory strike at Troy, N. Y.
 ''In women l find a passion for strikebreaking, said Bowen, "and some would rather work for $2 a day breaking strike than get q steady job at $3 a day"
 Farley got into the strikebreaking business in a peculiar way. He ran a small hotel at Plattsburg, and while i'll with typhoid fever he wandered off in delerium, and got rid of all his money. When he recovered he found himself in Brooklyn, broke, while the B. R. T. strike was on. He got job as motorman and that suggested his present occupation. He has since brok- en strikes in Chicago, Cincinnati, San Francisco, Waterbury and many other cities.-New York World.