3 ms·cough Pinkertons coughby C1sc0cat 8y agocough Pinkertons coughhazz99 8y agoWhat is pinkertons?gaius 8y agoBack in the day if you were a factory boss and the workers wanted to unionise, you would phone Pinkertons and they would send thugs to violently assault any union members. This is what they called “private detectives”.