Merchants Police Detective Agency Business Card Case
In the early days of our nation, Private agencies and Railroad Police were often the only Lawmen in many small towns . one example is private Pinkerton National Detective Agency. It is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States by Scotsman Allan Pinkerton in the 1850s During the labor strikes of the late 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers. One such confrontation was the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie.
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