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372 VIOLENCE AND THE LABOR MOVEMENT
'Red Book' of the Mine Operators" ; "Anarchy in Colorado:
Who Is to Blame" (The Bartholomew Publishing
Co., Denver, Colo., 1905) ;
the American Federationist,
April, 1912; the American Federationist, November,
191 1 ; Job Harriman's "Class War in Idaho" (Volks-
Zeitung Library, New York, 1900) ;
Emma F. Langdon's
"The Cripple Creek Strike" (The Great Western Publishing
Co., Denver, 1905) ;
C. H. Salmons' "The Burlington
Strike" (Bunnell & Ward, Aurora, 111., 1889);
and Morris Friedman's "The Pinkerton Labor Spy" (Wilshire
Book Co., New York, 1907), contain the statements
chiefly of labor leaders and socialists upon the violence
suffered by the unions as a result of the work of the
courts, of the police, of the militia, and of detectives.
"The Pinkerton Labor Spy" gives what purports to be
the inside story of the Pinkerton Agency and the details
of its methods in dealing with strikes. Clarence S.
Darrow's "Speech in the Haywood Case" (Wayland's
Monthly, Girard, Kan., Oct., 1907) is the plea made before
the jury in Idaho that freed Haywood. Only the
oratorical part of it was printed in the daily press, while
the crushing evidence Darrow presents against the detective
agencies and their infamous work was ignored.
Capt. Michael J. Schaack's "Anarchy and Anarchists"
(F. J. Schulte & Co., Chicago, 1899) ;
and Pinkerton's
"The Molly Maguires and Detectives" (G. W. Dillingham
Co., New York, 1898) are the naive stories of those
who have performed notable roles in labor troubles.
They read like "wild-west" stories written by overgrown
boys, and the manner in which these great detectives
frankly confess that they or their agents were at the
bottom of the plots which they describe is quite incredible.
"The Chicago Martyrs
: The Famous Speeches of the
Eight Anarchists in Judge Gary's Court and Altgeld's
Reasons for Pardoning Fielden, Neebe and Schwab''
(Free Society, San Franscisco, 1899), contains the memorable
message of Governor Altgeld when pardoning the
anarchists.
In his opinion they were in no small measure
the dupes of police spies and the victims of judicial in-