Hellraisers Journal, Monday August 21, 1916
Ludlow, Colorado – Miners Join U. M. W. of A.
From the Duluth Labor World of August 19, 1916:
MINERS JOIN UNION ON
LUDLOW’S FIELD
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Several Hundred Men Ask For Membership
Where Murders Were Committed.
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TRINIDAD, Col., Aug. 18.-On the site of the Ludlow tent colony, where a half-score of men, women and children were murdered by coal company guards and militiamen in April, 1914, several hundred miners made application for membership in the Mine Workers’ union, after listening to addresses by well-known unionists.
The incident was a fitting memorial to those who died in the fight of southern Colorado miners for the right to organize.
Notices of the meeting had been posted throughout the various mine openings. Outwardly the only objection was shown by the Victor-American Fuel company, which worked its employes on Sunday for the first time in its history, thus preventing them from attending the meeting.
Most of the miners in attendance are employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron company and these workers declare that they will take John D. Rockefeller, jr., at his word-that he has no objection to them joining a union.
The first break against the Rockefeller “union” came when the miners of Sopris and Piedmont organized and applied to the United Mine Workers’ union for a charter. Similar action was taken at Starkville, and now the miners at Berwind, Tabasco and Toilerburg meet at Ludlow. Miners’ union officials predict that within a short time practically every miner in Las Animas and Huerfano counties will be enrolled. This means that after a year’s trial the Rockefeller “union” has failed in its alleged high purposes and that while mine managers and superintendents have delivered pretty speeches to these workers the latter have noted that their wages and working conditions remain at a lower standard than that set by the United Mine Workers’ union.
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[Drawing added.]
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SOURCE
The Labor World
(Duluth, Minnesota)
-Aug 19, 1916
https://www.newspapers.com/image/49876654
IMAGES
-Black Hole of Ludlow
-Ludlow Crucified
http://john-adcock.blogspot.com/2012/06/rogues-gallery-socialist-cartoons.html
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Colorado Strike Song – John McCutcheon