John D. Rockefeller Jr.

American Plan Open Shop Campaign Launches Nationwide Union Suppression

1921-01-01 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

Business leaders including Henry Clay Frick, Judge Elbert Gary, and John D. Rockefeller Jr. launched a coordinated campaign to roll back labor gains by promoting the “open shop” as patriotic while branding union membership as “un-American.” Meeting in Chicago in 1921, …

National Association of Manufacturers Chamber of Commerce U.S. Steel Henry Clay Frick Elbert Gary +1 more labor-suppression corporate-capture anti-union systematic-corruption

Rockefeller Testifies Before Walsh Commission: Three Days of Public Humiliation Over Ludlow Massacre

1915-01-25 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | Importance: 8/10

John D. Rockefeller Jr. endured three days of grueling public testimony before the U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations, chaired by Progressive lawyer Frank Walsh, regarding the April 1914 Ludlow Massacre in which Colorado National Guard troops and private guards employed by Rockefeller’s …

John D. Rockefeller Jr. Frank Walsh Commission on Industrial Relations Colorado Fuel and Iron Company labor-rights corporate-violence congressional-investigation progressive-era rockefeller

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

1914-04-20 00:00:00 +0000 UTC | 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