THE LUDLOW MASSACRE

(Colorado) Fink, Walter H. THE LUDLOW MASSACRE. (title page) THE LUDLOW MASSACRE. REVEALING THE HORRORS OF RULE BY HIRED ASSASSINS OF INDUSTRY AND TELLING AS WELL OF THE THIRTY YEARS WAR WAGED BY COLORADO COAL MINERS AGAINST CORPORATION-OWNED STATE AND COUNTY OFFICIALS TO SECURE AN ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS. (United Mine Workers of Colorado) Allied Printing. 1914. 3rd edition, 91, (6) pgs. Numerous photo and illustrated plates. Pict. wraps with photo of bodies of Louis Tikas and James Fyler with Coal Mine Owner’s militia in background.

Stated 3rd edition of this unusually rare polemic released by the UMWA detailing the mass killing of 21 miners, wives and children killed by Colorado National Guard and private militia employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company which attacked a tent colony of strikers on April 20, 1914. The Ludlow Massacre culminated one of the most violent periods between corporate power and labor in U.S. history, as striking miners had organized against working conditions instituted by the Rockefeller subsidiaries of the Rocky Mountain Fuel Company and Victor-American Fuel Company. Today the tent colony site is now a National Historic Landmark dedicated June 28, 2009.

"Mr. Fink has been in active touch with the situation since before the strike and with his ecperience as our publicity agent, there is none better able to write a story of the struggle. We believe so thoroughly in the ability of Mr. Fink to write the real story of the strike that we have had him at work for the past eight months compiling a history of our fight in Colorado since 1876." Policy Committee District 15, U.M.W.A.

Expected wear with toning and edge-ware, overall in vg cond.

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