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Bookmark or Share- Ludlow Massacre - Encyclopedia.comThe militia, joined by strikebreakers and company guards, attacked the workers' tent colony at Ludlow on 20 April 1914. Gunfire and flames claimed the lives of 25 people, including 11 children. The strike ended shortly thereafter.
- Ludlow Massacre - WikipediaThe Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard and private guards employed by Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) attacked a tent colony of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families in Ludlow, Colorado , on April 20, 1914.
- The Ludlow Massacre | American Experience | PBSOne of history's most dramatic confrontations between capital and labor — the so-called Ludlow Massacre — took place at the mines of the Rockefeller-owned Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I).
- Ludlow Massacre - Colorado EncyclopediaThe Ludlow Massacre began on the morning of April 20, 1914, when a battle broke out between the Colorado National Guard and striking coal miners at their tent colony outside of Ludlow in Las Animas County.
- War in the Coalfields: The “Ludlow Massacre” and its Impact on the ...On the morning of April 20, National Guardsmen aligned with the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company attacked the Ludlow Tent Colony to try and break the UMWA strike, killing 21 people (including 11 children) in what became known as the “Ludlow Massacre.”
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