Lest we forget: Ludlow Massacre, 1914.

[niyad]

[infoonly]

1. excellent book about it

Blood Passion by Scott Martelle, Rutgers University Press 2007 delves into the "political corruption, repression, and immigrants' struggle against dominant social codes of race, ethnicity and class...pitting labor activists... against the era's powerful business class" of which the Ludlow Massacre has become a tragic representation.

[DenaliDemocrat]

2. My great grandfather was there

He was not a miner but a norcino who followed the miners to America to make the traditional food. His ranch is at Ludlow, the head of Berwind canon.

Since he had the butcher shop, he and my great uncle would sneak food to the miners at night on horseback. Rockefeller had given strict orders to “starve the miners out”.

When Rockefeller’s men found out, they put a bounty on my grandfather and uncle’s head. The Sicilian blackhand hid them to keep them safe.

This is why I’m a democrat! I will never forget the atrocities of evil men who use the poor for their gains.

[LoisB]

3. Fascinating.

[LoisB]

4. Thank you, niyad, for this reminder. So many atrocities to not forget.

[Deuxcents]

5. Mary Harris Jones, better known as Mother Jones, helped to organize miners and was there to support the strike

After all these years, organized labor is still fighting for the same issues.. low pay, working conditions, right to organize. Not many realize the importance labor has been in our history.

[struggle4progress]

6. Here's Woody

Refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families inLudlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914