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So Allen Pinkerton, founder of the Pinkertons had taken part in the Chartist movement before he moved to America. The Chartist movement was (if you trust Wikipedia) one of the first powerful working class and pro-labor movements in the Industrial age.

The Pinkertons now are really seen as a nickname for labor suppression, so what if that reputation was reversed, and Allan Pinkerton recalled his old Chartist sympathies, revamping his detective agency as a pro-labor, muckraking political force, while still performing detective work?
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