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Three years later, however, Steunenberg approved the deployment of black troops and the use of preventive detention "bull pens" to squelch labor unrest in the Coeur d'Alenes mining camps.
After prolonged coaxing by McParland, Orchard confessed to Steunenberg's murder--and, with the clear impression that he could save his own neck by naming others, he went on to implicate three executives of the Denver-based Western Federation of Miners, one of whom, William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood, had co-founded an even more notorious organization, the Industrial Workers of the World.
But Lukas never fully clarified why Steunenberg's murder and its aftermath were as pivotal as his subtitle implies they were.
Historians may also question whether the Steunenberg affair, on its own, touched off, in Lukas' words, "a struggle for the soul of America."
Considered a moderate on labor issues, Steunenberg had been elected governor by a wide margin in 1896, with the support of the Populists and organized labor.