They were one of the worlds largest security and investigation services. Ten of them were hanged on a single day, June 21, 1877, in Pottsville, Pennsylvania. Pinkertons National Detective Agency, American private detective and security guard agency founded by Alfred Pinkerton in 1850. This documentary tells the story of The Pinkertons from the 1850s to the 2000s. The Pinkerton investigation ultimately led to the arrest and execution by hanging of 19 Mollies. Business owners and Scranton’s political leaders believed these organizations led the strike efforts and were responsible for the violence. The Molly Maguires operated independently within the A.O.H., though the latter eventually disavowed any connection with the so-called Mollies. In response, the Pinkerton Agency used paid informants to infiltrate the Molly Maguires, a secretive Irish-American labor organization, and the Ancient Order of Hiberians, an Irish-American fraternal and benevolent organization that formed in New York City in 1836 and subsequently founded chapters, or “divisions”, in other states. From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary EnglishPinkertonsPinkertons /pktnz -kr-/ (also Pinkertons National Detective Agency) a private. Sporadic violence continued into the Fall. General Council regarding a law that needed to be squashed as it would limit the. On August 1, a deadly confrontation erupted between strikers, townspeople, and the Scranton militia. The Pinkerton National Detective Agency hired women and minorities (a practice uncommon at the time), and also served as the largest privatized law. Great letter signed by William Pinkerton and addressed to C.R.I. In Scranton, Pennsylvania a general strike began on July 23. Laborers in several related industries, including mining, also struck in solidarity with the railroad workers, resulting in the first nationwide strike in the country’s history. In 1877, in the midst of a crippling national depression that saw significant wage and price deflation, railway workers initiated a nationwide strike. In response to increasing labor unrest in the post-Civil War period, several corporations in the mining, railroad, and steel industries hired the Pinkerton agency, which Allan Pinkerton had founded in 1850, to surveil, infiltrate, and undermine labor organizations and break strikes. A private security contractor for business and. This collection consists primarily of a special report by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency from its investigation of the Scranton, Pennsylvania general strike of 1877. Pinkertons National Detective Agency and the Information Work of the Nineteenth-Century Surveillance State.
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