Later, she said, he rehired about 20 who were not union sympathizers.
The minister was known at the time as a Union sympathizer and left shortly thereafter.
It later appeared that the pilot, chief mate, first and second engineers were Union sympathizers.
Ferguson saw it as his duty to form a guerrilla party to attack Union sympathizers.
The landing party found two boats used for smuggling and collected information from Union sympathizers in the area.
There were many Union sympathizers in the city.
The company also denies ever having kept lists of union sympathizers or singled out blacks to be fired.
Southern Loyalists (those who were Union sympathizers) made 22,298 claims.
Along with many other union sympathizers, Langdon was forced to leave in 1904, and moved to Denver.
The company also fired hundreds of workers in the summer and fall of 1919 for being union members or union sympathizers.