Neither can the customer be charged ordinarily
for waiting time, and apart from its malodorous character the
business is not desirable from a financial point of view.
The national agencies prefer clean criminal work, murder
cases, and general investigating. They no longer undertake
any policing, strike-breaking, or guarding. The most
ridiculous misinformation in regard to their participation in
this sort of work has been spread broadcast largely by jealous
enemies and by the labor unions.
By way of illustration, one Thomas Beet, describing himself as
an English detective, contributed an article to the 'New York
Tribune' of September 16, 1906, in which he said:
"In one of the greatest of our strikes, that involving the
steel industry, over two thousand armed detectives were
employed supposedly to protect property, while several hundred
men were scattered in the ranks of strikers as workmen. Many
of the latter became officers in the labor bodies, helped to
make laws for the organizations, made incendiary speeches,
cast their votes for the most radical movements made by the
strikers, participated in and led bodies of the members in the
acts of lawlessness that eventually caused the sending of
State troops and the declaration of martial law.
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