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Pinkerton Guards organization

also: Pinkerton mob

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Henry Clay Frickperson · 2Pennsylvaniacountry · 1Homestead Strikeevent · 1

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Henry Clay Frick recruited Pinkerton Guards host_asserted
“on Carnegie's behalf, hires 300 security guards known as Pinkerton Guards. Okay, go ahead. They're just one of the original kind of big clubs that all of these industrialists used to do their bully work. Exactly. And that's who Frick hires …”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 18:40
Pinkerton Guards carried_out_attack Allegheny Labor Union host_asserted
“It gets interesting. They can't really get to the plant because there's so many steel workers there. They're outnumbered. There's 300 guards. So they take a ferry boat down the river and they're trying to stop at the dock of the plant. Unfo…”
▶ Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy @ 19:10

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Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy
▶ 18:40 on Carnegie's behalf, hires 300 security guards known as Pinkerton Guards. Okay, go ahead. They're just one of the original kind of big clubs that all of these industrialists used to do their bully work. Exactly. And that's who Frick hires …
Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy
▶ 19:42 Not a pretty situation. It doesn't work well. They're trying to run the gauntlet as they're guiding them towards, I guess, the police department. Three of the Pinkerton guards get killed running the gauntlet, and almost every one of them wa…
Shadow State 47_ Secret Societies 30; The Carnegie Legacy
▶ 20:47 The problem with this is Carnegie's public image that he's done so much to develop, you know, going back and forth to New York and everything like that in high society is completely tarnished because of his people hired Pinkerton guards and…