La Follette Committee
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In the United States Senate, the La Follette Civil Liberties Committee, or more formally, Committee on Education and Labor, Subcommittee Investigating Violations of Free Speech and the Rights of Labor
John Dalrymple, president of the United Rubber Workers of America, testifies in March 1937 that a beating he received in Gadsden, Alabama, caused him to be hospitalized for several weeks with a concussion.
John W. Young (right), president of Federal Laboratories, confers with his secretary during testimony before the La Follette Committee in March 1937.
Pinkerton (detective agency)
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Pinkerton is an American private investigation agency and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Ruc
La Follette Committee
…Progressive Party–National Progressives senator from Wisconsin, chaired the committee. The committee investigated the five largest detective agencies: the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the William J. Burns International Detective Agency, the National Corporation Service, the Railway Audit and Inspection Company and the Corporations…
Pinkerton guards escort strikebreakers in Buchtel, Ohio, 1884
Frick's letter describing the plans and munitions that will be on the barges when the Pinkertons arrive to confront the strikers in Homestead