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The Colorado Coalfield War [c] was a major labor uprising in the southern and central Colorado Front Range between September 1913 and December 1914. Striking began in late summer 1913, organized by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) against the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron (CF&I) after years of deadly working conditions and low pay.
The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War.Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914.
White River War: 32-50 [c] White River Ute vs United States of America Battle of Berwind Canyon: October 24, 1913 Berwind: Coal Wars: Colorado Coalfield War: 1 Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency, & Colorado National Guard vs United Mine Workers of America: Ludlow Massacre: April 20, 1914 Ludlow: Coal Wars: Colorado ...
They would repeat this type of tactic during the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado the next year, with even more disastrous results. [4] By 1920, the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) organized most of West Virginia and Colorado. The southern West Virginia coalfields, however, remained non-unionized bastions of coal operator power. [5]
Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States.It was the site of the Ludlow Massacre–part of the Colorado Coalfield War–in 1914. The town site is located at the entrance to a canyon in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
Louis Tikas (Greek: Λούης Τίκας), born Elias Anastasios Spantidakis (Greek: Ηλίας Αναστάσιος Σπαντιδάκης; 13 March, 1886 – 20 April, 1914), was the main labor union organizer at the Ludlow camp during the 14-month strike known as the Colorado Coalfield War in southern Colorado, between September 1913 and December 1914; described as "the bloodiest civil ...
The Colorado Coalfield War (1913–14) began when about 12,000 coal miners when on strike in Ludlow on September 23. Some of the workers were forced from their home and established a tent city, and 26 people were killed on April 20, 1914, at the makeshift settlement by agents of the coal mine owners. [ 25 ]
A nearly simultaneous strike in Colorado's northern and southern coal fields was also met with a military response by the Colorado National Guard. [1] Colorado's most significant battles between labor and capital occurred between miners and mine operators. In these battles the state government, with one exception, sided with the mine operators.