Examples of Pinkerton in the following topics:
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- After three agents were shot, many of the Pinkertons refused to continue the firefight.
- Just before noon, a sniper shot killed another Pinkerton agent.
- The Pinkertons, too, wished to surrender.
- Men and women threw sand and stones at the Pinkerton agents, spat on them, and beat them.
- Several Pinkertons were clubbed unconscious.
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- The Molly Maguires were an Irish-American organization of coal miners, opposed and persecuted by industrialists and Pinkerton agents.
- In the 1870s, the Reading Railroad blamed the deals of two dozen mine foremen and administrators on a secret society of Irishmen called the "Molly Maguires. " Although the Reading Railroad hired a Pinkerton undercover detective to investigate, it is highly probable that most of the men accused and executed for being Molly Maguires were innocent.
- Gowen and the testimony of Pinkerton detective James McParland.
- Gowen decided to force a strike and showdown, and hired Pinkerton agent James McParland to go undercover against the Mollies.
- McParland's assignment was to collect evidence of murder plots and intrigue, passing this information along to his Pinkerton manager.
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- Although the Reading Railroad hired a Pinkerton undercover detective to investigate, it is highly probable that most of the men accused and executed for being Molly Maguires were innocent.
- Gowen and the testimony of Pinkerton detective James McParland.
- Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania, hired a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers.
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- In the riots of 1892 at Carnegie's steel works in Homestead, Pennsylvania , a group of 300 Pinkerton detectives , whom the company had hired to break a bitter strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, were fired upon by strikers and 10 were killed.
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- Donald Trump in a New Hampshire Town Hall on August 19th, 2015 at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH