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• 1907, Our Journal, page 18:

  ... Pinkertons, Cossacks, militia, spies, etc., speaks well for the men who represent us? If they were not true to their men, would all these forces be arrayed against us? Sure not! Let the weak rail and the malicious slur; the 

• 1910, George Ross Kirkpatrick, War -- what For?, page 40:

  Capitalists want soldiers, marines, militia, cossacks, Pinkertons, "coal-and-iron police," and so forth - chiefly for THREE general purposes : FIRST : TO HOLD DOWN the wage-earners and force them to consent to produce a 

• 2016 October 18, S. Paul O'Hara, Inventing the Pinkertons; Or, Spies, Sleuths, Mercenaries, and Thugs: Being a Story of the Nation’s Most Famous (and Infamous) Detective Agency, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 148:

  Although formed as an alternative to the Coal and Iron Police, the State Constabulary served much the same purpose; miners declared them to be "Pennsylvania Cossacks." Not until 1931 would the governor of Pennsylvania abolish the use of the Coal and Iron Police.