Morris Friedman

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Morris Friedman was the private stenographer for Pinkerton detective James McParland. Friedman came to the attention of the public when he published an exposé of anti-union actions by the private detective industry which was called the Pinkerton Labor Spy — (New York: Wilshire Book Co., 1907). The book focused in particular on how mining and ore milling companies used spies during the Colorado Labor Wars.

Friedman was called as a witness at the trial of the Secretary-Treasurer of the Western Federation of Miners, Big Bill Haywood. Friedman "described dirty tricks used by the Pinkertons to subvert the WFM, including the use of undercover operatives within the WFM who padded bills to drain the Federation treasury and reduced payments to miners to build dissatisfaction with Haywood."[1]

According to Frank Morn in The Eye That Never Sleeps: A History of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, Friedman described the Pinkertons as a secret police force.

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  1. ^ Excerpt, THE TRIAL OF WILLIAM "BIG BILL" HAYWOOD by Douglas O. Linder, from the web page http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/haywood/HAY_ACCT.HTM Retrieved February 22, 2007.
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