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The Price Of Colorado Coal Is Based On Two Events In The History Of Colorado Coal Mining That Are Called Massacres: Ludlow (1914) And Columbine (1927). Each Is A Drama Of Deep Tragedy. At Ludlow An Entire Tent Village, Occupied By Coal Miners And Their Families, Was Riddled By Company And Militia Machine Gun Fire And Then Burned To The Ground, Killing Men, Women And Children. Thirteen Years Later At Columbine, Picketing Unionists Were Ambushed; Six Were Killed And Twenty Wounded. A Philosophy Of Unrestrained Capitalism, Wherein The Captains Of Industry Had The Right To Freely Use Labor In Any Way They Saw Fit, Still Ruled In The Minds Of Colorado's Coal Barons. This Philosophy Conflicted Sharply With The Newly Emerging Demand Of Workers For The Right To Organize And Improve Wages And Conditions Of Labor. Ludlow And Columbine Are But Two Instances Of The Industrial Warfare That Wracked Eastern Colorado For A Hundred Years. This Is A Book Of Dramatic Fiction With A Message From History. All The Characters In The Story Are Fictional Except For Mother Jones, Josephine Roche, John Osgood, John Rockefeller And Other Well-known Persons. The Story Centers On Two Boys Who Begin Their Lives

Author

Ogle, George Ewing

Publisher

Xlibris Corporation; Xlibris

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781425727963