Identifier: strikerscommunis00pink (find matches)
Title: Strikers, communists, tramps and detectives
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Pinkerton, Allan, 1819-1884 Marian S. Carson Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
Subjects: Railroad Strike, U.S., 1877 Tramps
Publisher: New York, G. W. Carleton & Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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oldiers gath-ered in the mob, and many innocent persons with it, ofcourse, like herding cattle, and when about a hundred hadbeen collected, just corraled them up against the wreck,prodding them into submission and quiet in a very roughand effective way, and linally, when the wreck had beencleared, carrying them on to Pittsburg as prisoners, wherethey remained in jail until they were vouched for by goodand responsible parties. This put a quietus upon the ferocity of Johnstown rioters.They lost courage by being so properly handled ; and thoseguilty of the most daring outrages—among them the mis-placing of the switch—were subsequently apprehended,through the use of my operatives, and punislied. At Altoona the strike wrought great excitement, but littlemore worth recording. The special reason for this wave ofunusual and intense excitement lies in the fact that this nowlarge city illustrates almost the single exceptional instancein America where a great railroad corporation has built a
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INCIDENTS AT ALTOONA. 305 place of nearly fifteen thousand inhabitants solely throughits own patronage. Here aie the great foundries, factories,supply-houses and repair-shops of this gigantic railroad, thePennsylvania Central; and every present industry of theplace, wliich twenty years ago scarcely contained a thousandinliabitants, has been the direct and unequivocal result ofthe steadily-increasing demands for the roads equipment,followed by other interests which have gradually gatheredabout so great a hive of special industries. Thousands of mechanics are employed here in the shops,and thousands of people are supported by their wages;C(jnsequently when the blow was struck at Pittsburg, everysoul hi Altoona stood aghast at the common terror. It wasnatural that there should be great excitement, but when thefact is considered that nearly every individual in Altoonaowed whatever prosperity he enjoyed to the labor furnishedby the railroad company, the intense and vicious hatredwhich w^as

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