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April 20 marks the centenary of one of the landmark events in labor history, the bloody conflict between coal miners in southern Colorado and the enormous conglomerate that controlled the industry in the region. It came to be known as the Ludlow Massacre.
"The face-off raged for 14 hours, during which the miners' tent colony was pelted with machine gun fire and ultimately torched by the state militia. A number of people were killed, among them two women and 11 children who suffocated in a pit they had dug under their tent."
My grandfather was a labor organizer in the West during the 1910s and 1920s. He told me about it when I was a child. He never forgot. As we enter our new Gilded Age, we shouldn't, either.
"The face-off raged for 14 hours, during which the miners' tent colony was pelted with machine gun fire and ultimately torched by the state militia. A number of people were killed, among them two women and 11 children who suffocated in a pit they had dug under their tent."
My grandfather was a labor organizer in the West during the 1910s and 1920s. He told me about it when I was a child. He never forgot. As we enter our new Gilded Age, we shouldn't, either.
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