On April 20, 1914, 20 innocent men, women and children were killed in the Ludlow Massacre. The coal miners in Colorado and other western states had been trying to join the UMWA for many years. They were bitterly opposed by the coal operators, led by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company and Colorado Military. What resulted is depicted in these  photographs. 
funeral2.jpg (37004 bytes) funeral3.jpg (4926 bytes) funeral4.jpg (43931 bytes) funeral7.jpg (41065 bytes) funeral6.jpg (33737 bytes)
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Ludlow tent colony.jpg (46017 bytes)

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ruins ludlow2.jpg (47393 bytes) strike 19.jpg (29134 bytes) strike 10.jpg (26132 bytes) strike 11.jpg (29655 bytes) strike 12.jpg (22683 bytes)
ruins ludlow3jpg.jpg (47842 bytes) strike-UMW organizer J. W. Brown.jpg (35756 bytes) strikers12.jpg (27321 bytes) strike.jpg (24139 bytes) strike 2.jpg (29072 bytes)
strike 5.jpg (23377 bytes) strike 6.jpg (27911 bytes) strike 17.jpg (16496 bytes) strike 9.jpg (35359 bytes) strike 18.jpg (24376 bytes)
strikers.jpg (29113 bytes) strike 15.jpg (32187 bytes) strike 7.jpg (28914 bytes) strikers23.jpg (33535 bytes) strikers24pg.jpg (29732 bytes)
white flag.jpg (32148 bytes) strikers14.jpg (28007 bytes)

Shown below are old Postcards.

 
       
       
         

 

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