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By early April 1914, Colorado Governor Elias Ammons thought the violence in his states strike-bound southern coal district had eased enough that he could begin withdrawing the Colorado National Guard, deployed six months earlier as military occupiers. But Ammons misread the signals, and on April 20, 1914, a full-scale battle erupted between the remaining militiamen and armed strikers living in a tent colony at the small railroad town of Ludlow. Eight men were killed in the fighting, which culminated in the burning of the colony. The next day, the bodies of two women and eleven children were found suffocated in a below-ground shelter. The Ludlow Massacre, as it quickly became known, launched a national call-to-arms for union supporters to join a ten-day guerrilla war along more than two hundred miles of the eastern Rockies. The convulsion of arson and violence killed more than thirty people and didnt end until President Woodrow Wilson sent in the U.S. Army. Overall at least seventy-five men, women, and children were killed in seven months, likely the nations deadliest labor struggle. In Blood Passion, journalist Scott Martelle explores this little-noted tale of political corruption

Author

Martelle, Scott

Publisher

Rutgers; Rutgers University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780813540627

Subjects

Management, History, Business