 He directed the activities of scores of spies that had been placed within the Western Federation of Miners.p.89 Charles MacNeill, general manager of the USRRC refining company, had been a Pinkerton client since 1892.p.327

The agreement settling the 1894 strike in the Cripple Creek District provided an eight-hour day for miners.p.219 The WFM argued that working long hours in a mine or smelter were hazardous to workers' health, and that the eight hour day should become state law for mine and mill workers.Republicans opposed the law, and sought an opinion from the Colorado Supreme Court.The Court advised that such a law would be unconstitutional.p.219

Then a similar law was passed in Utah, and it withstood a U.S. Supreme Court challenge.