Colorado Experience: Ludlow Massacre
Colorado Experience: Ludlow Massacre
One of the most significant events in the struggle for labor laws in America played out in Las Animas County in the spring of 1914. With the control of much of Colorado’s coal mines in the hands of just a few companies, miners grew increasingly intolerant of low wages and dangerous working conditions. Despite efforts to suppress union activity, the United Mine Workers of America called a strike in September of 1913. Over the next few months, tensions escalated as the striking miners ransacked several mines. The dispute culminated in a violent clash on April 20, 1914. Despite this tragic outcome, the event sparked national outrage and led the way of workers’ rights in America.
It was like listening to my grandma who was 16 yrs old and was in Ludlow. My great grandfather took the family into Walsenburg a few days before and they missed being burned to death. The sacrifices that those brave men ,women and children endured during that time is mind blowing. I can’t imagine living in the conditions that they did for the rights that we now have because they stood up to the rich. For each one who perished that day my heart breaks. And for the cowards who damaged the monument you are just that cowards who did it in the night so your face can’t be seen.
some places didn’t even use money, they gave u script which u traded to the store for food,supplies,etc so u never even got cash
You’re telling me…. I live in Colorado yet I’ve NEVER heard about this? Or had a class about this? Wtf?
Same as the Middle East theses days
So basically before Mexicans, they would use uneducated immigrants from Europe? Some things never change.
My Dad went to work in the IL Coal mines at 13, the summer after graduating 8th grade. This was 1920 there was plenty of Teenage boys working the mines. My Dad hand drilled and packed the Dynamite charges. Safety and Child labors laws meant nothing. This was after the Cherry Il coal mine disaster of 1909, where 259 men and boys lost there lives. He went passed that closed mine to go to the mine he working in 1920. Nothing changed until the late 1930’s, when the Depression eased up. There was alot of Italians recruited to work the C. mines. In fact most of the Ludlow massacre victims were Italians. The stories of Ludlow made it up to Iowa and Illinois through the Italian Grapevine.
A lot of salty slavers and authoritarians in the comments lol. 😆
My grandfather worked for CF and I kind of
cool to see this
the rich have done it over and over again and still do today. Horrid GREED and human abuse at its best. Over and over again and still to this day… so sad.
So people from "Italy, France, Germany, Greece, Yugoslavia, Cekoslovakia" aren’t white? A little revisionism?
yea they intended to
I’ve been to the Ludlow Memorial. It’s very harrowing.
We know this is not being taught in school, so I will teach my school age son about the history of country, and ask him to watch videos like these as a reminder of what the people before us went through for our benefits ! Shameful the way these folks had to deal with these tyrants.
"If you were a white worker, you got a job as a fireman, but if you were a non-white worker, blah, blah, blah."
See a lot of non-white miners in these pics? Me neither. My family has been mining coal and tin for hundreds of years. My great-uncle, Jock Wilson, authored the autobiographical book ‘The Dark And The Damp’ in which he documents his life as a child laborer in coal mines. Coal mining in The United States has always been conducted using a work force comprised almost exclusively of white men…period. Have some non-whites worked in the mines? Of course, but gimme a break with that Leftist propaganda nonsense about white men never being assigned the most difficult and dangerous work. We built this country. I know and have known literally hundreds of coal miners but have to this day never met a single one who wasn’t caucasian. Not even once.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don’t you call me cause I can’t go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Imagine being so greedy you terrorize your own employees
I am astonished by what the rich do – Trump has done the same – a drafter dodger for the Vietnam war, which Bob Mueller the third lead a marine platoon in that war and received awards.
Ahhh! There’s nothing like a 2-minute introduction to give a video – no matter how good – an ugly start.
More is less. Some editor should have told you.
Controls of the mines in the 1800s sounds just like control of Democrats today. Crooked, Big Governing body, supply the bare minimum to keep the population in need of Help..while getting rich themselves. Taking the peoples say because they were kept to poor to do anything about anything and are given "help" by said Government, which isn’t help. Its just sustaining. STRAIGHT UP DEMOCRAT 101. 1st step, stop growth. Then raise taxes, disarm the people and then do as they wish with you after business leaves from high taxes and people leave from high rent. IF THEY CAN.
TEXTBOOK
The corporate sector is behind many a evil doings, including both world wars.
rights in amerika?? dont make me laugh
Join a Union, support a Union.
So history shows that rich assholes used cheap labor back then and now we import cheap labor products from China and use illegal immigrants from Mexico,……yay,..that’s progress.
colorado is a police state
Make America Great Again
Why am I getting suggestions of Colorado PBS videos by YouTube? I’m from Michigan.
Mother Jones just agitated to protect industrialization ! She never worked in a single mine and never suggested these men take their families to different states and take up other jobs whereat least they could see the light of day like farming . Mother Jones was a shill for the wealthy and she was not poor her self. These conditions were not caused by ethnicity but by lack of information.
You don’t even begin to tell how wicked the capitalists were. Not even a good start at it.
Follow the yellow brick road yet and still.
Once the unions are gone., it will surely go back to this. Right to work state and banned guns., it leads us to this…
Defenseless, darn millenials think they can fight without guns…
mine owners are the same as nazis
What was CF & I?
I wonder, where are the American Unions today?
Sounds socialist to me…hmm.
and now we have proposed "smart cities"
militias are going to rise again soon if this government doesn’t get it’s act together.
You notice PBS will NEVER tell the truth, that the Rockefeller family is directly responsible for the Ludlow Massecre. Oh yeah, that’s right because The Rockefeller Foundation FUNDS PBS.
Women and childeren are always the target in any disaster. We suffer so much in the hands of men!
Just recommending a very good novel (two more coming!) about this time in CO- Red Winged Blackbird, by Bob Reed. Check it out, I thoroughly enjoyed it
The stock market is suddenly crashing AGAIN!….due to some "virus"! ….(or some "event")…this is when the rich swoop in,..and buy cheap stocks!…then the market "inevitably" "(or miraculously )recovers", ..and VIOLA!..they "magically "make billions!….nothing new folks!….I don’t care!…I just work, pay my taxes,…and live my life as I want to!…my advise; don’t watch ANY news, (unless it’s just for fun or entertainment!/Its ALL bullshit),…..just go to work, pay your taxes,…and live your life!…just make sure you have plenty of toilet paper!..lol!
Rockefeller
Rome east and west.
Places like Sand Creek, etc. is what happened before this. Karma?
"we told the Colorado governor call the president, tell him call off his national guard, but the national guard belonged to the governor, so he didnt try so very hard." – Woody Guthrie
Mining corporations are to this day, putting the health of thier employees at risk. With the U.S. and Canadian government’s blessing. Why do we fly our nation’s flags?
The Rockefellers made America?? I think not. America was a collective effort of countless people contributing what they had. Rockefellers had an advantage that gave them greater responsibility and still ought to. Far be it from us to give credit to a rich man over any who bent their backs over a plow.
Goddamn red communists, all of them, they deserved what they got. Here in Arizona we loaded up their ilk and shipped em out of state, no chance to get their stuff or nothing, dumped in the new mexico desert where they belong
what i dont get is this…why do they always portray people as being so dang stupid?? like they didnt know how to live unless someone else "showed them how" what?? lol thats ridiculous
I have no idea what this "jumping" is all about in these videos but it is certainly distracting; the faces keep jumping toward the screen and then back again. A lot of them do it through boredom probably, and I normally reduce them and just listen, but in this case there are pictures to be seen…by anyone besides me. I’ll just read about it on the Wiki instead.
St. Peter doncha call me cause ah can’t go…Ah owe ma soul to the company store!