Colorado National Guard

Ludlow Massacre - National Guard Attacks Striking Miners, Kills 21 Including Women and Children

| Importance: 10/10

Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of approximately 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, killing approximately 21 people, primarily …

Colorado National Guard Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) United Mine Workers of America John D. Rockefeller Jr. Governor Elias M. Ammons +1 more labor-rights corporate-violence state-repression progressive-era worker-organizing
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