THE PITTSBURGH STRIKE.

Evening Post, Volume XLIV, Issue 9, 11 July 1892, Page 3

THE PITTSBURGH STRIKE.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir— On first reading tho telegrams about tho strike at Pittsburg, most New Zealand readers would consider that there had been a conflict between tho strikers and the United States police. Nothing of the kind. Pinkerton is a detective, who, starting as a private enquiry agont in Chicago, hns gradually organised a body of privato police, composed of tho lowest ruffians and scum of tho States. These can bo hired by the hundred, and sent to overawe any disputants in a trado and labour row. Those " Pinkerton'3 Police" are generally known as the "Thugs," " tho murdorers," on account of their shooting thiee inoffensive women in a New York railwe.y -station. For this, though condemned in the Oonrts, they were iiever really punished, an tho Vanderbilts spirited them away. Hundreds of othor murders are on thoir hands. Those " police" aro looked upon with contempt and scorn by all honest working men, and thoir prosonce is forbidden by law in several of tho States. Tho man Carnegie, who poses in Europe as a philanthropist, doos so with monoy wrung from tho hordes of foreign labourers ho imports into America to work for a shilling or two a day. Thoro, ground lower and lower by tho morciloss ' ' sweating of this benevolent gontleman, they at last striko and revolt, with tho effect of which the telegrams tell us. " Pinkerton's man " are more bravos. I am, &c, Unitas.