Pinkerton (detective agency) Anti-Pinkerton Act in 1893, federal law has stated that an "individual employed by the Pinkerton Detective Agency, or similar organization, may not be employed by the Government of the United States or the government of the District of Columbia." In the 1870s, Franklin B. Gowen, then president of the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad, hired the agency to "investigate" the labor unions in the company's mines. A Pinkerton agent, James McParland, using the alias "James McKenna", infiltrated the Molly Maguires, a 19th-century secret society of mainly Irish-American coal miners, leading to the downfall of the labor organization. The incident inspired Arthur
Never Could Toe the Mark I was never there. And the only time she'd see me is when I'd come in and crash and sleep for days, and she didn't know when I'd sleep if I'd ever wake up." "Never Could Toe the Mark" peaked at #20 on the "Billboard" country albums chart, Jennings' lowest showing since 1971's "Cedartown, Georgia". Never Could Toe the Mark Never Could Toe the Mark is an album by Waylon Jennings, released on RCA Victor in 1984. "Never Could Toe the Mark" was released at a pivotal time for Jennings, who was trying to get sober after over twenty years