summoned a private police force‚ the Pinkerton Detective Agency‚ to protect the non-union workers he planned to hire. The entire town flooded to the mill to meet the Pinkerton’s‚ weapons in hand. For twelve hours‚ a fierce battle raged. Outgunned by the Pinkerton’s Winchester rifles‚ Homestead’s citizens scoured the town for weapons‚ pressing into service everything from ancient muzzle loaders to 20-pound cannon. As workers built barricades on shore‚ the Pinkertons cut rifle ports in the sides of
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Biography of Allan Pinkerton CJS/250 Mike Frederick Nyna Holm 01/13/13 Allen Pinkerton was born in Glasgow‚ Scotland on August 25‚ 1819 and died July 1‚ 1884 in Chicago Illinois. He was a Scottish born detective and an owner and founder of a detective agency. He was also a son of a police officer who had left the force
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References: ASIS International. (2012). About ASIS. Retrieved from http://www.asisonline.org/about/history/index.xml Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations. (2012). The Pinkerton Detective Agency: Our History. Retrieved from www.securitas.com/pinkerton/en/about-pinkerton/the-pinkerton-detective-agency-our-history/ The International Foundation for Protection Officers (2010). The Professional Protection Officer. Burlington‚ MA: Elsevier. UNRV History. (2012)
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(Stevens‚ 2005) Perhaps one of the most famous (or infamous) was the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Formed in 1850 by a Scottish immigrant‚ the Pinkerton Detective Agency first began by protecting railroad property and investigating train robberies. During an investigation‚ the agency uncovered an assassination plot against Abraham Lincoln on his inauguration train. President Lincoln was impressed by the Pinkertons’ investigative abilities and put them to work spying on the Confederacy. After
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the walls. The deputy sheriffs that Frick had used to guard the factory had failed him so he sent in for the Pinkerton Detective Agency‚ a private army‚ to come to his aid. Coming in on a tugboat by nightfall‚ the army came greeted by hundreds of protesters. No one is sure who fired the first shot but a battle erupted and after fourteen hours of exchanged gunfire the Pinkerton Detective Agency surrendered. I feel that management hiring an army against its own employees is outrageous and completely out
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of an international court‚ and arbitration in industrial disputes. Battle of Blair Mountain‚ 1921 Main article: Battle of Blair Mountain Two years of conflict between miners and mine owners‚ characterized by utilization of the Baldwin–Felts Detective Agency for infiltrating‚ sabotaging and attacking the United Mine Workers union‚ culminated in the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921.[43] The largest armed insurrection since the American Civil War was touched off by the murders of Sid Hatfield and Ed
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investigations are conducted in the United States today? A: The organizational structure of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency‚ found in 1850 by Allan Pinkerton and the first of its kind in the US‚ was later adopted by the FBI. As with the Pinkerton Agency‚ the FBI began to take on cases that local law enforcement were too limited in resources to handle on their own. In addition‚ Pinkerton created what was called “the rogues’ gallery” which detailed the names and operations of known criminals
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The Homestead Strike was a very violent‚ but important event to the people of the American Business Industry. The violent act of a desperate businessman‚ in attempt to retain peace‚ killed many men. The infamous story of the Pinkertons changed the ways of American business agreements. The Homestead Strike changed the traditional American business environment by creating new laws and the awareness of the need for peace in business world. The Carnegie Steel Company was a successful factory‚ which
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The Homestead Strike of 1892 By: Industrial Relations Homestead is located on the Monogahela River eight miles from Pittsburgh. In 1892 the town had a population of about 12‚000 people. In 1880 it had a population of about 600 people. The town evolved around the Carnegie mills. With out the steel mill the town would have little existence. The mill property covered 600 acres of the 600 acres 37 of that is covered with varies buildings. The mills facilities were lighted by electricity which
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Charles McCollester‚ the strikers were "establishing pickets on eight-hour shifts‚ river patrols and a signaling system." The strikers surrounded the Carnegie Steel Company and did not allow the scabs to pass through. Frick called in three hundred Pinkerton guards‚ but when they arrived by boat on July 6th‚ they were met by ten thousand strikers (many of them armed). He who fired the first shot is
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