Word: bergoff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bergoff's business has been hit hard by Depression. Therefore the Bibb job, though small, was welcome. But it turned out badly. Georgia's Governor Talmadge declared martial law, drove the strike breakers out of the State after only two days' work. Bergoff failed to collect full pay from Bibb. Then eight strikebreakers complained to New York State's Bureau of Labor Welfare that Bergoff had not paid them in full...
...York's Industrial Commissioner Elmer F. Andrews, uneasy at Bergoff's system of industrial anarchy, jumped at the chance to strike him a stiff blow. Only license which Bergoff possesses is for private detective work. During hearings on his employes' complaints last spring the State charged that Bergoff Detective Service, Inc. was simply a blind for unlicensed Bergoff Service Bureau, its sole purpose being to give the impression that Bergoff's strikebreaking activities were carried on with the State's sanction. On those grounds last week Bergoff's detective license was revoked...