The Garland globe. [volume] (Garland, Utah) 1906-191?, 1907-07-06
SAYS It WAS PLOT
OF MINE OWNERS
Former EmplOye of Pinker-
tons Gives Testimony IN
Haywood Trial
says Employees Of Detective Agency
Became Leaders Of Miners Union
Under Instructions from Pin
kertons, Who Reported to
Mine Owners.

Boise, Idaho Morris Friedman, n
former employe of the Pinkerton de-
| tectlve agency at Denver. who pub.
| lished his adventures and many of
the confidential reports and records
that passed through his hands in an
| attack on the agency, was witness
on Saturday in behalf of William Hay.
wood, and told how the Pinkertons
had sent spies into the many of the
important unions of the Western Fed
Grafton of Miners
The call from the defense for Fried.
man to take the stand produced one
of the sensational periods of the trial.
BY name and operating number he
identified a dozen detectives who sue.
ceeded in entering or getting very
close to the miners unions in Colo
RADIO and he produced voluminous
copies of the reports they made to the
agency for transmission to the mine
owners Friedman was coniidcn.
tial stenographer under Detective Nc
Parland and. so he testified, 1t was
part of his duty to recopy the reports |
of the operatives as they reached the |
Office
Detectives Joined the Unions.
Friedman swore that In several in.
stances the detectives sent out by the
agency in behalf of the mine owners |
managed to get themselves elected to
high office in the union. and in a
couple of instances they carried |
their daring roles to the extent of |
sharing all the hardships of real
strikers and being finally deported
from the country with real strikers |
who went out before the militia Ten
feet from Friedman's chair sat George |
w. Redell. who, as a Pinkerton de-
tectlve, worked up to leadership in |
the Telluride union, and, turning to |
him, by direction of Clarence Oar
row. the witness identified him. Re
dell smiled and touched his chest as
Friedman pointed toward him.
Haywood to Shoulder Blame.
Friedman said that one Pinkerton
operative became chairman of the |
union strike relief committee at
Globeville, and as such had charge |
of all funds and food disbursed there |
by the local union and general fed |
Grafton Friedman said that under
instructions from his superiors at the
Pinkerton agency this man first tried |
to beggar the federation by the lavish
expenditure In behalf of the strikers,
and, falling In this. he cut the relief
down to the lowest point of stingi-
ness in the hope that the members of
the union might censure Mr.. Hay
wood The examination did not show
whether Friedman entered the en-
ploy of the Pinkertons as spy in be-
half OF the labor organizations or his
decision to make public his knowl-
edge and the documents he took was
reached after he was employed.
Regarding Orchards Credibility.
Aside from the Introduction of Nor
ris Friedman. the defense also offered
a large amount of testimony covering
Orchards credibility. the dispute as
to the time Orchard sold his interest
in the Hercules mine. the treatment
of Jack Simpkins while prisoner in
the Idaho bull pen" another motive
for the murder of Detective Lyle
Gregory, the whipping OF men friend.
ly to the strikers at Cripple Creek,
and the circumstances under which
the processes OF the civil courts at
Telluride were disregarded by the
authorities. Two witnesses
swore that on the day the Bunker
Hin and Sullivan mill was destroyed
Harry Orchard was at Mullan. which
is eighteen miles from Wardner.
They located him In poker game,
and one of them-Patrick McHale, a
barkeeper-swore that he sat in the
game, BY various means, including
a showing that McHale is gambler,
the prosecution endeavored to break
this testimony, but both witnesses