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labor spy

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noun

  1. an employee who is used by management to spy on union activities.

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In a previous appearance before the La Follette committee last summer, Pinkerton officials admitted that U. S. employers had paid the agency $1,750,000 for labor spy and strikebreaking services since 1933.

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