Pinkerton

(noun)

An operative employed by the Pinkerton National Detective Agency founded by Allan Pinkerton (1819-1884).

Related Terms

  • Molly Maguires

Examples of Pinkerton in the following topics:

  • The Homestead Strike

    • 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.
  • The Molly Maguires

    • 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.
  • Summary and references

    • Pinkerton, Richard L. (1994).
  • Lockouts

    • Industrialist Henry Clay Frick sent private security agents from the Pinkerton National Detective Agency to break the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers strike at a Homestead, Pennsylvania steel mill.
    • Two strikers were killed, 12 wounded, along with 2 Pinkertons killed and 11 wounded.
  • The Rise of Unions

    • 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.
  • Privatization

  • Commander-in-Chief

    • President Abraham Lincoln, as commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces, with Allan Pinkerton and Major General John A.
  • Workers Organize

    • 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.
  • Conclusion: Populism Resurgent

    • Donald Trump in a New Hampshire Town Hall on August 19th, 2015 at Pinkerton Academy in Derry, NH
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