Only the regularly organized militia was out, and it was out everywhere.

And in this time of terror, the regular army was increased an additional hundred thousand by the government.
* The name only, and not the idea, was imported from Russia.
The Black Hundreds were a development out of the secret agents of the capitalists, and their use arose in the labor struggles of the nineteenth century.

There is no discussion of this.

No less an authority of the times than Carroll D.
Wright, United States Commissioner of Labor, is responsible for the statement.

From his book, entitled "The Battles of Labor," is quoted the declaration that "in some of the great historic strikes the employers themselves have instigated acts of violence;" that manufacturers have deliberately provoked strikes in order to get rid of surplus stock; and that freight cars have been burned by employers' agents during railroad strikes in order to increase disorder.