Thursday, April 20, 2017

April 20, 1914

The Ludlow Massacre


On this day in 1914, the Colorado National Guard killed dozens of men, women and children who had assembled to support a strike against Colorado Fuel & Iron Company in Ludlow, Colorado.  The company was owned by John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil.  The murders ended a strike by 11,000 miners who failed in their efforts to obtain better wages and working conditions.  Sixty-six men, women, and children died during the strike, but not a single militiaman or private detective was charged with any crime.

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