The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1910-08-25
Tolerated by National, State, County and Municipal
Governments who Relinquish Legal Power
to Thuggish Detective Bureaus
to Escape Responsibilities.

commissions, and should not be con-
| founded with guards furnished by our
imitators and recruited from the slums of
the cities.
I'VE furnish secret operatives of all
trades, union or non-union, for work in
mill. mine, factory. store, ETC., for the
purpose of receiving inside information.
"Is your shop being unionized?
rs your output being restricted?
rs the Union running your shop?
rs material being wasted or stolen?
Have you shop committee" and
who are they?
Does your foreman show favoritism?
Are you losing castings in your foun.
dry?"
DO you care to know what is being
done at Union meetings?
Let us place a mechanic operative
with you and find out.
In handling strikes we take entire
charge of same, furnish necessary guards
to protect men while at work, and escort
them to and from work if boarding out
side.
we employ, transport and deliver
| s.
I'VE charge no premium on such me.
chanics, but employe them at price per
day you wish to pay. charging only for
actual time agent may be engaged in
securing them. i
Men employed by US will be taken to
affected plants by our guards and safely
delivered and strikers are not permitted
to molest them. .s-,5..z
I'VE have found from experience that
strikes are broken quickest where new
men are boarded inside or adjacent to
affected plant, and we are prepared to
mt up and maintain temporary boarding
quarters, furnishing colored cook, wait
ers, etc. Our captains are thoroughly
competent to handle such boarding
quarters making same practically self.
sustaining.
Sanitary arrangements are carefully
looked after and nothing is allowed to
go to waste.
Secret men attend all meetings of
strikers and report proceedings. This
service possesses the necessary equip
ment, such as Winchester rifles, police
clubs, cots, blankets, ETC., to handle any
sized trouble. We are represented in
all the larger cities of the United States
and Canada, and representative will
call on you free of charge upon request
Address all communications to Frank
Joy, General Supt. They Joy Detective
4 Service (incorporated), Cleveland, o."
The above circular letter from the
Joy Detective service of Cleveland, Ohio
needs no interpreter. 1t is an unvarnist.
ed statement of an agency that exists for
1 the special purpose of rendering aid to
fortify an employer in the determination
of unionism- According to the circular,
this agency is equipped for war and
keeps an arsenal for the benefit of the
employer who desires that murder shall
. be committed to accomplish his unholy
end.
y 1t will be noticed that the circular
. contains the information that the agency
controls the services of men holding
i state and city police commissions, and
9 this statement is made in order that the
4 employer shall realize that the men
9 furnished have all the qualifications to
resolve themselves into dehumanized
brutes.
Organized labor could not use the
mails through which circulars might be
sent advertising standing army equip.
. ped to kill, but a detective agency, in.
: corporated by few conspirators has a
license to offer for hire, thugs and out
;, laws, who have become callous to the
. shedding of human blood
The future is pregnant with develop.