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PRECAUTIONS. IN 1913
ALONE, 464 MINERS
WERE KILLED OR
SEVERELY INJURED
INTHE COLORADO — -
MINES. IN SEPTEMBER,
1913, 9000 OF THE
11,000 SOUTHERN
COLORADO MINERS
WENT ON STRIKE. THE
STRIKERS AND THEIR
FAMILIES GATHERED

TO WORK IN THE COAL MINES OF COLORADO
IN 1913 WAS TO WORK IN HELL. THE MINE
OWNERS DECIDED THAT IT WAS CHEAPER TO
REPLACE A DEAD OR INJURED MINER WITH A
NEW ONE RATHER THAN PAY FOR SAFETY

  
 

  
  
   
 
   
 
  

 
 

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MARY HARRIS "MOTHER" JONES, .A
HARD-FIGHTING 82-YEAR-OLD
ORGANIZER FOR THE UNITED
MINE WORKERS, ADDRESSED

THE MINERS ON SEPTEMBER 15.

   
  
  

 

 

  

 

 
  
  
   
   
   

IF IT IS SLAVERY OR
STRIKE, | SAY STRIKE
UNTIL THE LAST ONE OF
YOU DROPS INTO YOUR
GRAVE!

  

   

 

 

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"HER WORDS WERE
TO BE PROPHETIC. Ff

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~ THE STRIKERS WANTED AN 8-HOUR

A 10% WAGE HIKE (THEY WERE
BEING PAID 50 CENTS FOR EVERY

HE RIGHT NOT TO HAVE TO SHOP
AT THE COMPANY STORES, AND

SAFETY LAWS, AT THIS TIME, MINE
OWNERS WOULD ONLY PROVIDE VENT-
ILATION WHEN THE DUST GOT
SO THICK THEIR MULES COULD NOT
SEE WELL ENOUGH TO HAUL COAL
TO THE SURFACE,

 

 

THE COMPANY- OWNED SHACKS.

 

DAY, RECOGNITION OF THEIR UNION,
TON OF COAL THEY BROUGHT UP),

- THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE STATE

THE OWNERS REFUSED TO NEGOTIATE,
AND EVICTED THE STRIKERS FROM

 

 

 
   
     
   
   

  

 

 

CITIES FOR THE HOME -

 

HAMLET OF LUDLOW

    
    
 

WITH WINTER COMING,
THE UNION SET UP TENT

LESS STRIKERS, ONE
WAS AT THE TINY

 

 

MEANWHILE, BOTH SIDES ARMED. THE
COLORADO FUEL € IRON CO, SPENT
$30,000 ON ARMS FOR ITS GUARDS.

 

 

 

 

 

THE UNION DISTRIBUTED A
FEW RIFLES. THE COLORADO
FUEL & (RON COMPANY
(OWNED BY JOHN D.
ROCKEFELLER JR., NELSON'S
DAD) BUILT A “DEATH c
SPECIAL; AN ARMOURED | |i us
CAR EQUIPPED WITH A
4OO-SHOT PER MINUTE
MACHINE GUN. AMASSED
AGAINST THE STRIKERS
AND THEIR FAMILIES
WERE COMPANY GUARDS,
HIRED DETECTIVES,
SHERRIFF'S DEPUTIES,
AND THE STATE MILITIA,
A REAL TRIGGER-HAPPY
GROUP.

    
      
       
  
  

   
  
  

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DEMONSTRATORS HEAD WITH HIS OWN

Hed SWORD, ENRAGED STRIKERS LATER
| BESIECED TWO MINES, KILLING 10
=} GUARDS AND DEPUTIES.

 

 

 

 

THEN, ON THE MORNING OF APRIL
20, 194, MILITIA BULLETS TORE
THROUGH THE TENTS OF THE
LUDLOW ENCAMPMENT,

 

 

 

 

 

 

INERS FOUGHT BACK.

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DURING ONE OF THE FORAYS INTO
THE CAMP, MILITIA LEADER KARL
LINDERFELT CAME ACROSS THE
CAMP-LEADER, LOUIS TIKAS, LINDERFELT
CLUBBED TIKAS WITH HIS RIFLE.

 

 

 

 

THAT EVENING SOLDIERS SWEPT THROUGH THE TENT
COLONY: POURING KEROSENE ON THE TENTS AND
SETTING THEM ALIGHT WITH FLAMING BROOMS. IN
THE MORNING, WORKERS CAME ACROSS THE BODIES
OF TWO WOMEN AND 11 CHILDREN WHO HAD HIDDEN
IN A TRENCH QUILT BENEATH A TENT, THEY HAD
SUFFOCATED WHEN THE TENT~ BURNED.

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THAT BROUGHT TO 25 THE NUMBER OF STRIKERS

MURDERED THAT DAY. THE ENRAGED MINERS COUNTER-
ATTACKED SOLDIERS ALONG A 40-MILE FRONT.

 

Be BRIG. GEN, JOHN CHASE OF THE NATION-
SN AL GUARD SLASHED OPEN A

 

FOR 10 DAYS, THE MINERS SET
FIRES TO MINING COMPANY BUILDINGS
AND DROPPED DYNAMITE DOWN
MINE SHAFTS. BUT BY THE END
OF THE YEAR, THEY KNEW THEY
WERE BEATEN. MOTHER JONES
TOLD A NEW YORK AUDIENCE THAT
JHE UNION HAD LOST BECAUSE IT

OTHER SIDE HAD THE BAYONETS.”

GREAT COALFIELD WAR,” BY GEORGE
AND THE DECEMBER ‘79 ISSUE OF

“HAD ONLY THE-CONSTITUTION, THE .

FOR MORE INFORMATION, READ "THE
MCGOVERN AND LEONARD GUTTRIDGE,
MOTHER JONES MAGAZINE. ALSO, FOR

$150, YOU CAN GEF. “CORPORATE CRIME
COMICS. #1” FROM KITCHEN SINK ENT.

 

 

WELL, ALL THIS ABOUT KIDS

TROOPS AND STUFF SOUNDS
PRETTY AWFUL, BUT:EVEN

ARE STILL IN POWER TODAY,
WE DID SET UP A MONUMENT
FOR THE STRIKERS. ITS STIL

25 IN COLORADO.

 

 

END.

BEING KILLED BY GOVERNMENT

THOUGH THE SAME PARASITES

THERE, JUST OFF INTERSTATE

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