The Ludlow Massacre Site - Ludlow, Colorado
Footage of the memorial site on December 14, 2015
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Some two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed.
Ludlow Massacre // Colorado 2009 // Sam Phillips Interview With Film Makers
Was on Tour With The Band Hobo Monk..and as we were driving We ran into Ludlow ..Said a Prayer and this film Makers ask to interview me..then i found out later that it was to become a historic landmark the next day. Funny How The Universe works sometimes........... The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914.
The massacre resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 25 people; sources vary but all sources include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, lasting from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company (RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).
In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines over the next ten days, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard along a 40-mile front from Trinidad to Walsenburg.[1] The entire strike would cost between 69 and 199 lives. Thomas Franklin Andrews described it as the deadliest strike in the history of the United States.[2]
The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history.[3] Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident.[4] Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.
The Ludlow site, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.[5] The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.[5] Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.[
[Wikipedia] Ludlow Massacre
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. About two dozen people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident.
The massacre, the culmination of an extensive strike against Colorado coal mines, resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 26 people; reported death tolls vary but include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, which lasted from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company, the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company, and the Victor-American Fuel Company.
In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines over the next ten days, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard along a 40-mile front from Trinidad to Walsenburg. The entire strike would cost between 69 and 199 lives. Thomas G. Andrews described it as the deadliest strike in the history of the United States.
The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history. Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining to investigate the incident. Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws and an eight-hour work day.
The Ludlow site, 18 miles northwest of Trinidad, Colorado, is now a ghost town. The massacre site is owned by the United Mine Workers of America, which erected a granite monument in memory of the miners and their families who died that day. The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009. Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event.
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Wahatoya (Breasts of the Earth)
These remarkable mountains were formed when a basalt magma bullet came up from deep within the earth and struck a brittle rhyolite cap, shattering it like glass, and raising it up into a dome. The hard basalt filled the cracks, and as erosion wears away the softer rhyolite, the basalt dikes remain- up to 200 feet tall, ten to twenty feet thick, like a system of Great China Walls radiating out from the peaks in all directions for many miles. .
On the east slope of East Spanish Peak are large coal seams exposed by orogeny of these peaks, and was Ludlow, site of the Ludlow Massacre that led to worker reforms and creation of unions to protect worker rights.
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. 26 people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely criticized for the incident.
The massacre, the culmination of a bloody widespread strike against Colorado coal mines, resulted in the violent deaths of two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent. The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, which lasted from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company(RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).
In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines over the next ten days, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard along a 40-mile front from Trinidad to Walsenburg. The entire strike would cost 199 lives. Thomas G. Andrews described it as the deadliest strike in the history of the United States.
The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history.The Ludlow Tent Colony Site was designated a National Historic Landmark on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009. Modern archeological investigation largely supports the strikers' reports of the event, different from the Rockefeller ownership account. .
JD Rockerfeller was a despot 1%er, and before the republicans drag us back into that kind of America, we will resist! Unfortunately the 1% discovered the world has a huge supply of cheap labor, for which they circumvented the market of American workers. In those countries, they have implemented JD Rockefeller-type work demands, which will inevitably lead to worker resistance and revolt when those people have endured enough. Difference this time is the conflict may be international, and as widespread as their outsourcing is, that might be the next global conflict.
Remember, that is what the GOP stand for. It is what the anti-union boors argue for, rolling on the floor laughing their fat asses off in amusement.
Wahatoya is a Ute (and many other tribes) word meaning Breasts of the Earth. To the Native Americans, these mountains were sacred. The Spanish spell it Huajatolla.
CO: Ludlow Massacre site - commemorating and working for workers' rights - Bob Butero (UMW)
Bob Butero (not Mike Burke as labeled) and members of the community gather at the Ludlow Memorial site and remember workers that came before them in struggles for workers' rights. The Faces of the Employee Free Choice Act billboard and campaign swings through Ludlow, Trinidad and Pueblo on April 8, 2009.
Highway of Legends, Trinidad, Colorado
December 25th, 2010 trip along south Route 12 from Trinidad to top of the mountains on the Highway of Legends.
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Come, Visit Southern Colorado's Scenic Highway of Legends. This is truly one of the most unique and beautiful drives in the state. The Byway follows sections of I-25, State Hwy. 12, U.S. Hwy. 160 and Cordova Pass Road in circular fashion around the East and West Spanish Peaks. Gateways to the Byway can be found in Walsenburg, Aguilar, Trinidad and La Veta.
Come, visit the sites of some of the most notable events and waypoints in Colorado History. See the land where coal was king in Walsenburg and where the strife between owners and laborers reached a climax at the infamous Ludlow Massacre took place in 1914. See the historic City of Trinidad, where westward bound pioneers reached the banks of the Puratoire River after crossing the high plains on the Northern Branch of the Santa Fe Trail. Come, experience an unspoiled alpine setting as you wind your way through the Sangre De Cristo Mountain Range and through some of the most unique geological features in the World, the Radial Dikes. Take a hike or have a picnic along in the remote wilderness that surrounds Cordova Pass. Come and visit the enchanting Village of Cuchara. Ride the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad or play the links at Grandote Peaks Golf Course in the tiny Artist's Colony of La Veta.
Come, Discover the other Colorado. Visit the Scenic Highway of Legends
S. Colorado Scenic Hwy. of Legends Part 4
Come, Visit Southern Colorado's Scenic Highway of Legends. This is truly one of the most unique and beautiful drives in the state. The Byway follows sections of I-25, State Hwy. 12, U.S. Hwy. 160 and Cordova Pass Road in circular fashion around the East and West Spanish Peaks. Gateways to the Byway can be found in Walsenburg, Aguilar, Trinidad and La Veta.
Come, visit the sites of some of the most notable events and waypoints in Colorado History. See the land where coal was king in Walsenburg and where the strife between owners and laborers reached a climax at the infamous Ludlow Massacre took place in 1914. See the historic City of Trinidad, where westward bound pioneers reached the banks of the Puratoire River after crossing the high plains on the Northern Branch of the Santa Fe Trail. Come, experience an unspoiled alpine setting as you wind your way through the Sangre De Cristo Mountain Range and through some of the most unique geological features in the World, the Radial Dikes. Take a hike or have a picnic along in the remote wilderness that surrounds Cordova Pass. Come and visit the enchanting Village of Cuchara. Ride the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad or play the links at Grandote Peaks Golf Course in the tiny Artist's Colony of La Veta.
Come, Discover the other Colorado. Visit the Scenic Highway of Legends
S. Colorado Hwy Of Legends Part 3
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Come, Visit Southern Colorado's Scenic Highway of Legends. This is truly one of the most unique and beautiful drives in the state. The Byway follows sections of I-25, State Hwy. 12, U.S. Hwy. 160 and Cordova Pass Road in circular fashion around the East and West Spanish Peaks. Gateways to the Byway can be found in Walsenburg, Aguilar, Trinidad and La Veta.
Come, visit the sites of some of the most notable events and waypoints in Colorado History. See the land where coal was king in Walsenburg and where the strife between owners and laborers reached a climax at the infamous Ludlow Massacre took place in 1914. See the historic City of Trinidad, where westward bound pioneers reached the banks of the Puratoire River after crossing the high plains on the Northern Branch of the Santa Fe Trail. Come, experience an unspoiled alpine setting as you wind your way through the Sangre De Cristo Mountain Range and through some of the most unique geological features in the World, the Radial Dikes. Take a hike or have a picnic along in the remote wilderness that surrounds Cordova Pass. Come and visit the enchanting Village of Cuchara. Ride the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad or play the links at Grandote Peaks Golf Course in the tiny Artist's Colony of La Veta.
Come, Discover the other Colorado. Visit the Scenic Highway of Legends
S. Colorado Scenic Hwy. of Legends Part 2
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Come, Visit Southern Colorado's Scenic Highway of Legends. This is truly one of the most unique and beautiful drives in the state. The Byway follows sections of I-25, State Hwy. 12, U.S. Hwy. 160 and Cordova Pass Road in circular fashion around the East and West Spanish Peaks. Gateways to the Byway can be found in Walsenburg, Aguilar, Trinidad and La Veta.
Come, visit the sites of some of the most notable events and waypoints in Colorado History. See the land where coal was king in Walsenburg and where the strife between owners and laborers reached a climax at the infamous Ludlow Massacre took place in 1914. See the historic City of Trinidad, where westward bound pioneers reached the banks of the Puratoire River after crossing the high plains on the Northern Branch of the Santa Fe Trail. Come, experience an unspoiled alpine setting as you wind your way through the Sangre De Cristo Mountain Range and through some of the most unique geological features in the World, the Radial Dikes. Take a hike or have a picnic along in the remote wilderness that surrounds Cordova Pass. Come and visit the enchanting Village of Cuchara. Ride the Rio Grande Scenic Railroad or play the links at Grandote Peaks Golf Course in the tiny Artist's Colony of La Veta.
Come, Discover the other Colorado. Visit the Scenic Highway of Legends
Big Timbers Transportation Museum Grand Opening
Video from the June 25, 2011 event includes flag ceremony by Troop 223, invocation by Rev. Rory Gillespie, and speeches by Bill Elam, president of the Prowers County Historical Society, County Commissioner Henry Schnabel and museum curator Kathleen Scranton.
Colorado to New Mexico on Raton Pass
This video takes a look at I-25 southbound through Raton Pass between Trinidad, CO. and Raton, NM. Granted it's not quite as scenic as I-70 on the Rockies or I-80 in the Sierras, but this road still has nice views (that the camera can't quite capture).
Industrial Workers of the World philosophy and tactics | Wikipedia audio article
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00:03:34 1 Wobbly understanding of the world
00:06:55 1.1 Inspiration
00:10:23 2 Question of political action
00:12:49 3 Early philosophy a compromise
00:14:52 4 IWW vs. the AFL
00:19:19 5 IWW philosophy evolves
00:20:51 5.1 Two guiding principles
00:23:01 5.2 For and against the system
00:24:26 5.3 Political parties and union
00:27:12 5.4 On war
00:28:51 5.5 Ideology and socialism
00:30:34 5.6 To be syndicalist, or not to be syndicalist?
00:36:31 5.7 Anarchist swing?
00:38:13 5.8 Anarcho-syndicalism
00:40:53 5.9 Contract question
00:53:29 5.9.1 No-strike clause
00:57:14 6 Tactics and action
00:57:23 6.1 Direct action
00:59:25 6.1.1 Soapboxing and free speech fights
01:02:04 6.1.2 Conventional strikes
01:03:19 6.1.2.1 Colorado coal strike (a case study)
01:20:33 6.1.3 Intermittent and short strikes
01:22:02 6.1.4 Sit-down strikes
01:24:08 6.1.5 Boycotts
01:25:29 6.1.6 General strike
01:28:32 6.1.6.1 Industrial democracy
01:30:16 6.1.7 Strike on the job
01:30:50 6.1.8 Silent strike, slowdown and exceptional obedience (work to rule)
01:37:26 6.1.9 Sabotage
01:45:44 6.1.10 Violence
01:49:42 6.1.10.1 Violence and sabotage as tactics
01:53:36 6.1.11 Legislation, injunctions and law
02:01:48 6.2 Minority unionism
02:04:00 6.3 Dues collection
02:04:51 6.4 Boxcar Organizing
02:06:43 7 Publicity and the Wobbly image
02:08:55 8 See also
02:09:15 9 External links
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The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) is a union of wage workers which was formed in Chicago in 1905 by militant unionists and their supporters due to anger over the conservatism, philosophy, and craft-based structure of the American Federation of Labor (AFL). Throughout the early part of the 20th century, the philosophy and tactics of the IWW were frequently in direct conflict with those of the AFL (forerunner of the AFL-CIO) concerning the best ways to organize workers, and how to best improve the society in which they toiled. The AFL had one guiding principle—pure and simple trade unionism, often summarized with the slogan a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. The IWW embraced two guiding principles, fighting like the AFL for better wages, hours, and conditions, but also promoting an eventual, permanent solution to the problems of strikes, injunctions, bull pens, and union scabbing.The AFL and the IWW (whose members are referred to as Wobblies) had very different ideas about the ideal union structure. While the AFL primarily organized workers into their respective crafts, the IWW was created as an industrial union, placing all workers in a factory, mine, mill, or other place of business into the same industrial organization. The IWW also promotes the class-based concept of One Big Union.
The IWW was formed by militant unionists, socialists, anarchists, and other labor radicals who believed that the great mass of workers are exploited by, and are in an economic struggle with, an employing class. The IWW employed a great diversity of tactics aimed at organizing all workers as a class, seeking greater economic justice on the job and, ultimately, the overthrow of the wage system which they believe is most responsible for keeping workers in subjugation. Such tactics are generally described as direct action, which is distinguished from other types of reform efforts such as electoral politics. IWW members believe that change accomplished via politics depends upon appeal to members of a ruling class who derive benefit from the subservient quiescence of the working class.
While other unions (such as the CIO) adopted form and tactics—notably, industrial unionism and the sitdown strike—which were developed or pioneered by the IWW, labor laws passed by legislatures have sought to ...