In the great struggle between capital and labor, each side has
expended large sums of money in employing confederates to
secure secret information as to the plans and doings of the
enemy. Almost every labor union has its Judas, and less often
a secretary to a capitalist is in the secret employment of a
labor union. The railroads must be kept informed of what is
going on, and, if necessary, they import a man from another
part of the country to join the local organization. Often
such men, on account of their force and intelligence, are
elected to high office in the brotherhoods whose secrets they
are hired to betray. Practically every big manufacturing
plant in the United States has on its payrolls men acting as
engineers, foremen, or laborers who are drawing from $8o to
$100 per month as detectives either (1) to keep their
employers informed as to the workings of the labor unions, (2)
to report to the directors the actual conduct of the business
by its salaried officers, superintendents, and overseers, or
(3) to ascertain and report to outside competing concerns the
methods and processes made use of, the materials utilized, and
the exact cost of production.
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