• Pearl Louis Bergoff (April 23, 1875 or 1878-August 11, 1947) was an American strikebreaker noted for violent tactics from the early 1900s through the...
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  • source names the strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff and his so-called "Bergoff technique" as the origin of the formula. Rand and Bergoff were both indicted by the...
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    an ambush on May 14, 1908. In 1907, the professional strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff brought in the Eastman gang to ride herd over "scabs" brought in to...
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    a host of imitators. After Whitehead, men like James A. Farley and Pearl Bergoff turned union busting into a substantial industry. Farley began his strikebreaking...
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    one of the employers had hired the notorious strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff, he had Bergoff and his two hundred men detained by the Georgia National Guard...
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  • industrial war." As the strike wound down, Rand and his hired strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff were both indicted by a federal grand jury for violating the Byrnes...
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    Rider, manager of The Pressed Steel Car Company, responded by hiring Pearl Bergoff, the notorious owner of strike-breaking paramilitary force. The first...
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    George B. Gifford ordered 250 men from the professional strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff. The following day a mob attacked the Tidewater refinery in an attempt...
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  • the 1936 Presidential election Methods of professional strikebreaker Pearl Bergoff during the textile workers strike Review of U.S. Biological Survey efforts...
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  • worsened when a federal grand jury indicted James Rand, Jr., and Pearl Bergoff, owner of Bergoff Industrial Service (a strikebreaking "detective agency"), of...
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