cases, and general investigating. They no longer undertake
any policing, strike-breaking, or guarding. The most
ridiculous misinformation in regard to their participation in
this sort of work has been spread broadcast largely by jealous
enemies and by the labor unions.

By way of illustration, one Thomas Beet, describing himself as
an English detective, contributed an article to the 'New York
Tribune' of September 16, 1906, in which he said:

"In one of the greatest of our strikes, that involving the
steel industry, over two thousand armed detectives were
employed supposedly to protect property, while several hundred
men were scattered in the ranks of strikers as workmen. Many
of the latter became officers in the labor bodies, helped to
make laws for the organizations, made incendiary speeches,
cast their votes for the most radical movements made by the
strikers, participated in and led bodies of the members in the
acts of lawlessness that eventually caused the sending of
State troops and the declaration of martial law. While doing
this, these spies within the ranks were making daily reports
of the plans and purposes of the strikers. To my knowledge,
when lawlessness was at its height and murder ran riot, these
men wore little patches of white on the lapels of their coats
so that their fellow detectives of the two thousand would not
shoot them down by mistake."

He, of course, referred to the great strike at Homestead,
Pennsylvania, in 1892. In point of fact, there were only six
private detectives engaged on the side of the employers at