#Pinkertons

Andrea Peterson

@andreapeterson.bsky.social

1 month ago

A blue sign with white lettering noting the execution of four mineworkers in 1877, referred to as 'Molly Maguires,' an alleged secret society of Irish mineworkers. These men were four of twenty Irishmen who were executed in Pennsylvania between 1877 and 1879 as part of one of the largest federal executions in US history. The sign in the photo stands in front of thick green bushes.

A sign noting the execution of four Irish mineworkers in 1877 in Mauch Chunk, now known as Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania

#ColorADay #BlueTue #JimThorpe #MollyMaguires #CarbonCounty #FederalExecution #Blue #Photography #Pinkertons #Handprint

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

1 month ago

Photo of Lucy Parsons with the following quote: we must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live.

#BlackHistoryMonth: #LucyParsons born to enslaved #AfricanAmerican #woman. Cofounded #IWW #union. Husband Albert falsely executed by state for #Haymarket bombing.

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#anarchism #racism #civilwar #police #policebrutality #pinkertons #prison

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

3 months ago

Famous Western Federation of Miners poster entitled "Is Colorado in America?" Shows American flag, with the stripes filled with phrases like: Martial law declared in Colorado; Habeas corpus suspended; Free Press throttled; Free Speech denied; Bull Pens for union men; Union men exiled from homes and families in Colorado; constitutional right to bear arms questioned in colorado;. By Western Federation of Miners - Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68853818

Today in #LaborHistory 11/23/1903: Army sent to Cripple Creek, #Colorado to put down miners' #rebellion. 600 held weeks in military stockade. #Pinkertons as spies & armed thugs. #Strike led by #BigBillHaywood

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

5 months ago

The Pennsylvania state militia arrives to quell the hostilities, art by Thure de Thulstrup. By Thure de Thulstrup - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3b03430.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30378683

Today in #LaborHistory 9/30/1892: In wake of Homestead Steel #Strike, #union leaders prosecuted for #treason for 1st time in US. history. During the strike, #Pinkertons killed 7 workers. Alexander Berkman tried to assassinate Homestead boss Frick.

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Jamil Scalese

@jamilscalese.bsky.social

5 months ago

Page one of Satterwhite & Fosgrove #1

Page 3 of Satterwhite & Fosgrove #2 - Trees to Gold

Page 3 of Satterwhite & Fosgrove #3 - Death, 2 Ways

Page 2 of Satterwhite & Fosgrove #4 - Brotherhood

Some love for the title pages on this SATTERWHITE & FOSGROVE Saturday #🔍🤠

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#oldwest
#pinkertons
#artshare
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Jamil Scalese

@jamilscalese.bsky.social

5 months ago

Page 2 👀

Mauro and those hand drawn title logos🥰

Blessed with an incredible team on this one, it's been a dream

#wildwest
#pinkertons
#mystery
#indiecomic
#artshare
#comicoop

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

5 months ago

Image: An unprovoked attack by mounted state police during the strike in Pennsylvania in September 1919By Unknown author - The Great Steel Strike and its Lessons, William Foster https://www.gutenberg.org/files/36032/36032-h/36032-h.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75133002

Today in #LaborHistory 9/22/1919: 400,000 steelworkers strike. Bosses accused them of #Communism. Attacked them as undesirable #immigrants. Attacked #IWW strike organizer William Z. Foster. Used #Pinkertons to brutalize them.

Historic Crime Files

@histcrimefiles.bsky.social

6 months ago

2/2: They were famous for hunting the Wild Bunch, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, but they also engaged in controversial union-busting and espionage. They were the original G-Men, for better or worse. #History #Pinkertons #TrueCrime

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

6 months ago

Pinkerton on the viewer's left, Lincoln in the center, and General McClellan on the right, in front of a tent, during the civil war.

#Pinkertons destroyed miners’ #union in 1870s, as portrayed in my #novel, Anywhere But Schuylkill. Later killed many #IWW. Tried to kill #indigenous IWW organizer Frank Little.

Buy my book here:
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Or Venmo me $25: @Michael-Dunn-565 & send address for a signed copy!

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

6 months ago

We Never Sleep logo of the Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, with an open eye in the center.

Today in #LaborHistory 8/25/1819: Allan Pinkerton was born. Founded #Pinkertons private #police, killed dozens of workers in various labor struggles. Ironically, Pinkerton, himself, was a violent, radical leftist in the Chartist movement as a youth.

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

7 months ago

#Author Dashiell Hammett worked for #Pinkertons in Butte at during #mining #strike. Offered him $5,000 to murder #IWW #union organizer #FrankLittle. Refused. Wrote about it in his #novel Red Harvest.

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#books

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

7 months ago

A drawing from Harper’s Weekly of Alexander Berkman attempting to assassinate Henry Clay Frick.By Drawn by W. P. Snyder – http://gale.corbis.com/search/detail/enlarge.aspx?id=10&imageid=13011935&search=frick+anarchist&t=1&psz=30&pos=1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3281793

Today in #LaborHistory 7/23/1892: Alexander Berkman tried to kill industrialist Henry Clay Frick for 9 miners killed by #Pinkertons during Homestead Steel #Strike. 14 yrs in #prison. Wrote Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist.

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#anarchism #books #writer

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

8 months ago

View of the Frisco Mill-Explosion in Gem, Idaho after dynamite explosion set by Union Strikers. Barnard Studio (Wallace, Idaho)

Today in #LaborHistory 7/13/1892: Martial law declared in Coeur D'Alene, Idaho. Natl Guards & fed troops to suppress #strike by #WFM, demanding a #livingwage of $3.50/day. #Pinkertons infiltrated & sabotaged their #union. July 11, gun battles with company guards & dynamited the Frisco mine.

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

8 months ago

#Pinkertons play prominently in my #novel “Anywhere But Schuylkill.”

You can get a copy here:
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Or send Venmo $25 (@Michael-Dunn-565) & your mailing address, & I'll send a signed copy!

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

8 months ago

Pinkerton men leave the barges after their surrender during the Homestead strike. By Drawn by W.P. Snyder after a photograph by Dabbs, Pittsburg. - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3c26046.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=607502

Today in #LaborHistory 7/6/1892: Locked out workers at #Homestead Steel battled 300 #Pinkertons detectives hired by Carnegie. Strikers formed military units with guns and a cannon. #Women participated. 7 Pinkertons & 11 #union members died.

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Desmond Hasty

@dhasty01.bsky.social

8 months ago

Selfie of dhasty01 in front of Pinkerton’s

What you got planned for this weekend cuzo? One thing I learned from my trip is that #Texas knows how to BBQ!
#Pinkertons #SanAntonio #foodsky

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

8 months ago

The Pennsylvania state militia arrives to quell the hostilities. Dozens of soldiers, with rifles, marching outside the facilities, with smoke billowing in the background. Art by Thure de Thulstrup. By Thure de Thulstrup - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3b03430.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=30378683

Today in #LaborHistory 7/2/1892: #Carnegie Steel locked out workers at #Homestead, PA. Led to gunbattle btwn strikers & #Pinkertons trying to deliver scabs. Deaths on both sides. Pinkertons lost, gave up. Gov called in militia, ending #strike.

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Anywhere but Schuylkill Anywhere but Schuylkill - Kindle edition by Dunn, Michael, Press, Historium. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Anywhere but Schuylkill.

Today in #LaborHistory 6/8/1904: #Colorado militia killed 6 #miners. #strike disrupted by #Pinkertons, led by James McParland who, 29 yrs earlier, got 20 innocent #Irish #miners hanged in #Pennsylvania. My #novel #AnywhereButSchuylkill depicts that history.

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Famous Western Federation of Miners poster entitled "Is Colorado in America?" Shows American flag, with the stripes filled with phrases like: Martial law declared in Colorado; Habeas corpus suspended; Free Press throttled; Free Speech denied; Bull Pens for union men; Union men exiled from homes and families in Colorado; constitutional right to bear arms questioned in colorado. By Western Federation of Miners - Political Posters, Labadie Collection, University of Michigan, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=68853818

Today in #LaborHistory 6/8/1904: #Colorado militia killed 6 #miners during Colorado Labor Wars. #Strike led by #BigBillHaywood & #WFM. Owners used #Pinkertons to infiltrate #union.

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Union Busting and the Pinkertons - Michael Dunn Union Busting by the Pinkertons was key to the rapid accumulation of wealth by the robber barons like Gowen, Carnegie, Rockefeller

Today in History 5/22/1859: #Author A Conan Doyle was born. #SherlockHolmes. Doctor. #Vaccine promoter. Wrote Valley of Fear, about #MollyMaguires & #Pinkertons, like my book, #AnywhereButSchuylkill.

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Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

9 months ago

Portrait of Big Bill Haywood in a fedora, with the following quote: If the workers are organized, all they have to do is put their hands in their pockets and They have Got the Capitalist Class Whipped.

Today in #LaborHistory 5/18/1928: #BigBillHaywood died in #Soviet Union. Founding member of #WFM & #IWW. Participated in #Colorado Labor Wars, east coast textile strikes. #Pinkertons tried, but failed, to bust him for murder. 1918 convicted under #EspionageAct for #antiwar activity. Fled to #Russia.

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

10 months ago

U.S. Marshalls attempt. to start a train during the 1886 train strike in East St. Louis, Illinois. By Nebinger, G. J., illustrator - This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs divisionunder the digital ID cph.3b45190.This tag does not indicate the copyright status of the attached work. A normal copyright tag is still required. See Commons:Licensing., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=21269527

Today in #LaborHistory 5/5/1884: #KnightsOfLabor #strike at Union Pacific #railroad over #wages. Knights won, leading rapid growth in membership. Bosses used #Pinkertons to infiltrate & disrupt #union & defeated their strike in 1886.

Mob History

@mobhistory.substack.com

10 months ago

Collection of crime history items from May 4.

#OTD (May 4) in #OrganizedCrime #History: #Pinkertons are asked to investigate murder of #Pennsylvania game warden, #Detroit gangsters murdered, DeMayo of #KansasCity gets 2 years, #Pittsburgh liquor ring is arrested, #LosAngeles mafioso Licata released pending appeal.
#MafiaHistory 🗃️ #Skystorians

All-True Outlaw

@alltrueoutlaw.bsky.social

1 year ago

Various character sketches for "Satterwhite & Fosgrove": one depicts a Black man in Old West gear holding a knife, in another he's holding up his fists

Various character sketches for "Satterwhite & Fosgrove": Mr. Ridge, a large man with long hair and a duster coat

Various character sketches for "Satterwhite & Fosgrove": a slender Caucasian man with high cheek bones and shaggy hair

A new blog post re: "Satterwhite & Fosgrove"!

www.alltrueoutlaw.com/comic-three-satterwhite-fosgrove/

Please like, comment and share if you're feelin' what we're dealin'.

(Concept art by Mauro Bueno)

Westward!

#webcomic #comic #pulp #noir #anthology #western #pinkertons #jessejames

Mick Ripken

@mickripken.bsky.social

1 year ago

I’m worried we’re gonna have a new Battle of Blair Mountian here soon. Hopefully Brian doesn’t call the #Pinkertons in #NotTheAlbum #Labor

Michael Dunn

@michaeldunnauthor.bsky.social

1 year ago

Photo of Lucy Parsons with the following quote: we must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live.

#BlackHistoryMonth: #LucyParsons born to enslaved #AfricanAmerican #woman. Cofounded #IWW #union. Husband Albert falsely executed by state for #Haymarket bombing.

Read full bio here: michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/l...

#anarchism #racism #civilwar #police #policebrutality #pinkertons #prison

TomC360

@tomc360.bsky.social

1 year ago

I'm sure #Pinkertons unionbusters are on their way #FuckBezos #eattherich

𝔄𝔯𝔠𝔥𝔞𝔫𝔤𝔢𝔩 ℑ𝔪𝔭𝔯𝔢𝔰𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫𝔰

@archangelimpressions.com

1 year ago

Final design with logo by Aaron Horkey, layout by Shane McCarthy.

Alternative color scheme 🇺🇸

"False Constellations" T-shirt artwork for Wayfarer, 2024.

("Django Kill" reference fully intentional!)

#western #wildwest #gunslingers #pinkertons #wayfarer #blackmetal #heavymetal #mountainwest #coloradometal #denvermetal #americandream #usa #cattlethief #corpsepose #tshirtart #djangokill

Diana the Writing Writer Who Writes. USE ALT TEXT

@diana2112gaming.bsky.social

1 year ago

Are any of us shocked? Like even a little? From "Send in the #Pinkertons #WotC?" From "We're revoking a 'in perpetuity license'" WotC?

I mean, I certainly ain't.

@vocalderbyguy.bsky.social

1 year ago

fucking #Pinkertons