The Baldwin-Feltz Detective Agency in Mingo County, West Virginia

Baldwin-Feltz was a detective agency based in West Virginia. They were deputized by friendly sheriffs, which gave them official license to enforce laws and to carry guns. The bosses used them to collect rent to guard payroll and to suppress union organizing. One of these men went so far as to organize several union local outposts in Mingo County during the spring of 1920. Lively would like set up union groups and then he would provide names of all the people who were secretly meeting to the company that would then fire and evict those people. So when like miners would hold protests, they would create violence at those protests in order to justify violent crackdowns by mine