The Ludlow Legacy, Part II: Colorado
by David Sirota
Note to Editors: This is the second of two columns looking at the legacy of the Ludlow Massacre on its 94th anniversary.
The Ludlow Massacre's tiny monument off I-25 in Southern Colorado is easily missed if you don't know where to find it. Though the nearby coal mine garnered international attention in 1914 after a government militia slaughtered union organizers there, the minimalism of the memorial is predictable. History books venerate Rockefellers — the union-busting mine owne ...
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Posted by: Suzanne Lynch
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Mon Apr 21, 2008 7:06 PM
I t was the families of the striking miners, not the miners themselves who were attacked at Ludlow. More important is the fact that the tent city in which they were living was set on fire by the Colorado militia at the behest of the then Governor. A journailist named Brian Beshoar (I think) wrote an account called, I believe, Out of the depths" published in the 1950's. It is wonderful to me that this part of our history is ignored. Thanks!
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Posted by: Sam Taylor
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Sun Apr 20, 2008 7:02 AM
David, I really appreciate your telling this story "like it is". You probably are aware of a piece in a book entitled "Everything You Know is Wrong". Howard Zinn, the noted historian, writes about Ludlow and describes how it played out.
By the way. Are you still being carried in the Denver Post?
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