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George W. Riddell was a Pinkerton labor spy who infiltrated the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in Telluride, and later became president of the Eureka miners union in Utah. Riddell was forced to resign when Morris Friedman published the book The Pinkerton Labor Spy.
The Anti-Pinkerton Act was a law passed by the U.S. Congress in 1893 to limit the federal government's ability to hire private investigators or mercenaries.. The Anti-Pinkerton Act is contained within 5 U.S.C. 3108 and purports to specifically restrict the government of the United States (as well as that of the District of Columbia) from hiring employees of Pinkerton or similar organizations ...
George Samuel Dougherty (April 5, 1865 – July 16, 1931) was an American law enforcement officer, private detective and writer. He was considered one of the leading detectives in the United States, first for the Pinkerton Detective Agency and then as a private investigator.
Pinkerton is an American private investigation and security company established around 1850 in the United States by Scottish-born American cooper Allan Pinkerton and Chicago attorney Edward Rucker as the North-Western Police Agency, which later became Pinkerton & Co. and finally the Pinkerton National Detective Agency.
The Pinkerton Labor Spy criticized the Pinkerton Detective Agency from a pro-labor point of view.Charlie Siringo, another former employee of the agency, had no sympathy for labor, yet wrote books about his experiences as a Pinkerton Detective that were so objectionable to the company, they were repeatedly suppressed.
WOTC is a Religious formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Edinburg, Virginia, serving Woodstock and Shenandoah County, Virginia. WOTC is owned and operated by Valley Baptist Church - Christian School.
WOTC may refer to: Wizards of the Coast, an American publisher of fantasy and science fiction games; Work Opportunity Tax Credit, an American federal tax credit for employers; XCOM 2: War of the Chosen, the expansion pack to the 2016 turn-based tactics videogame XCOM 2; WOTC, a radio station in Edinburg, Virginia
Pinkerton v. United States , 328 U.S. 640 (1946), is a case in the Supreme Court of the United States . [ 1 ] The case enunciated the principle of Pinkerton liability , a prominent concept in the law of conspiracy .