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SE Colorado, Part 5 - The Ludlow Massacre
 
 
SE Colorado, Part 5  - The Ludlow Massacre Official call to go on strike, September 17, 1913 - "All mine workers are hereby notified that a strike of all the coal mine and coke oven workers in Colorado will begin on Tuesday, September 23, 1913.  We are striking for better wages, improved conditions, and union recognition. We are sure to win." When unrest over dangerous and unfair working and living conditions finally came to a head in the Berwind Coal Camp in SE Colorado, the miners decided to strike. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers, and began in September, 1913. Of course, the miners were immediatley evicted from their Company homes, and they headed in procession 8 miles to the nearby town of Ludlow, outside of which the United Mine Workers Union had set up a tent colony that housed about 1200 miners and their families from the Berwind and Del Agua mines.
The tent colony of Ludlow, 1913
For seven months, the miners were victimized by the coal bosses, often brutally. The miners had dug pits under their tents to protect themselves, and their wives and children, from sporadic machine gun fire from the strike ... more

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