The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1921-04-16

"Espionage is closely related to vii
olence. Sometimes it is the direct
cause of violence. and, where tina:
cannot be charged, it is often the in
direct cause. If the secret agents of
employers, working as members of the
labor unions, do not always instigate
acts OF, violence, they frequently ems
courage them. II they did not, they
would not be performing the duties
for which they are paid, for they are~
hired on the theory that labor organ
.izations are criminal in character
Some English Testimony.
Thomas Beet the English detective
: of. Scotland Yard, brings an even
heavier indictment.
THAT there is sinister motive be-
hind the employment Of these men
has been shown again and again. Have
you ever followed the episodes of a
great strike and noticed that most of
the disorderly outbreaks were so
guided as to work harm to the inter-
ests of the strikers? Therefore, instead
OF preventing these acts. it is to the
interest of the employer that they
usually, the reason why private detec-
tives are brought to the scene"
The present and recent situation in
West Virginia. now. in the courts, is
an excellent example of the way in
which the system works. Down there
the machine guns of the war between
miners and mine guards are the prop
erty of the Baldwin Felts~ Detective.
agency. The street railway strike of
Denver, August, 1920, is another case
In point. The story of Black Jack
Jerome's, riot there is perfect in
stance.
''Black Jack'' at Denver.
The mob yelled, and the strike
breakers in the car, who had sawed
OFT rifles, fired. A riot followed. The
tramway company sent four cars out
of the barns into the mob. The strike
breakers in the cars were armed. A
man in one of the cars shot into TIE
mob, hitting a policeman. The mob
was made up mostly of boys from IA
to 20 years of age. Mr.. Hid. the presi-
dent Of the tramwa company. stated
III the papers the next morning that
"the street car employees were not re-
'sponsible for the riot
The following day, Friday, the East
Side car barn riots occurred. Union
pickets were lounging on some stone
coping about park facing the car
barns when an automobile drove up
with a man in uniform in it. He stood
up and, as he left the car, turned to-
ward the pickets and fired directly at
them; then, holding a revolver in each
hand. backed into the barn and the
doors were closed.
Soon afterwards. people began to
gather about the tarn. Suddenly an
automobile drove up and four men
dressed in police Uniform, stood up
and fired at the crowd. Immediately
firing began from the first and second
story windows ofrthe car barn. About
80 were killed or injured.
There were no more riots after the
federaa troops entered town. It was
stated that General Wood had said:
There has been murder and the peo-
PIE responsible will suffer for it,
General Wood did moi deny the quo
tation. -.
"Camc to Break Strike"
4 From Ian affidavit of w. A. Ingra-
ham, one of Jerome's men, an illumi-
mating portrait is taken: j "
HE stood up in an auto with a gun
I'm each hand and escorted us to the
south side barn. = ow hoys, / want to
tell you something he said, you have
come: here to break this strike. We
are going to do it and when you shoot
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