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3 20 VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
as long as possible. Thus, the employers as well as the
men are the victims of this commerce in violence.
It will, I am sure, be obvious to the reader that it
would require a very large volume to deal with all the
various phases of the work of the detective in the
numerous great strikes that have occurred in recent years.
I have endeavored merely to mention a few instances
where their activities have led to the breaking down of
all civil government. It is important, however, to emphasize
the fact that there is no strike of any magnitude
in which these hirelings are not employed.
I have taken
the following quotation as typical of numerous circulars
which I have seen, that have been issued by detective
agencies "This bureau has made a specialty of handling
:
strikes for over half a century, and our clients are among
the largest corporations in the world. During the recent
trouble between the steamboat companies and the striking
longshoremen in New York City this office . . . supplied
one thousand . . .
guards. Our charges for
guards, motormen, conductors, and all classes of men
during the time of trouble is $5.00 per day, your company
to pay transportation, board, and lodge the men."
(48) Here is another agency that has been engaged
in this business for half a century, and there are thousands
of others engaged in it now. One of them is
known to have in its employ constantly five thousand men.
And, if we look into the deeds of these great armies of
mercenaries, we find that there is not a state in the
Union in which they have not committed assault, arson,
robbery, and murder. Several years ago at Lattimer,
Pennsylvania, a perfectly peaceable parade of two hundred
and fifty miners was attacked by guards armed with
Winchester rifles, with the result that twenty-nine workers
were killed and thirty others seriously injured. This