The Untold Truth Of The Pinkerton National Detective Agency
By Marina Manoukian/Jan. 20, 2021 11:27 pm EDT
For over 75 years, the Pinkerton National Detective Agency terrorized workers who were trying to organize in the United States. Although they re often lauded for their diverse hiring practices, more often than not these practices were carried out for the purposes of class warfare.
A Pinkerton agent was responsible for testifying at the sham trial after the bombing of Haymarket Square, but despite the fact that the Illinois governor called the Pinkertons unreliable narrators and pardoned the living Haymarket anarchists, their reputation held strong. And in 1914, the Pinkertons were also part of the Ludlow Massacre, where 66 people died after Pinkertons and the Colorado National Guard set fire to a miners camp.