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Interview with Mr. Steve Surisky
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Margolis, Eric, 1947-
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Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
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Labor disputes--Colorado
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10:00 -- 50 yrs. as a miner and black lung disease, 1913 strike, the tent colony and massacre (pg. 6 of pdf transcript); 20:00 -- After the Ludlow massacre, his injury, the fighting, the regular army takes over (pg. 12 of pdf transcript); 30:00 -- Viewing photos of the old town, his 1914 union card, transcript ends (pg. 15 of pdf transcript); 40:00 -- Video continues with indistinct conversation; 50:00 -- No audio.
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10:00 -- 50 yrs. as a miner and black lung disease, 1913 strike, the tent colony and massacre (pg. 6 of pdf transcript); 20:00 -- After the Ludlow massacre, his injury, the fighting, the regular army takes over (pg. 12 of pdf transcript); 30:00 -- Viewing photos of the old town, his 1914 union card, transcript ends (pg. 15 of pdf transcript); 40:00 -- Video continues with indistinct conversation; 50:00 -- No audio.
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Mr. Surisky, retired with a miner's pension after 50 years in the Pryor and Turner mines -- but also with black lung disease. Miners were paid in script, which could be redeemed for cash. They had no choice but to shop at the company store or be fired. In 1913, he and his brother were part of the tent colony at Ludlow, in a sagging, cramped tent with 2 others. They supplemented $3.50/week strike pay by hunting for jackrabbits. He recalls Nick Costa and his family, as well as Louis Tikas. When the militia fired on strikers in the tents in April, 1914 Surisky was wounded in the foot and went to the union doctor in Trinidad, Dr. Beshoar. Fighting continued after the tents at Ludlow were burned, until the "regular" army arrived. Surisky recalls the "company-man" sheriff (Jeff Farr) and his deputies (Potts and Shorty Martinez). He also remembers the union member Mike Livoda and speeches given by Mother Jones. He claims "she cussed like hell." After the fighting, he met John D. Rockefeller at a nearby YMCA. He doesn't recall the IWW strike in 1927.
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Mr. Surisky, retired with a miner's pension after 50 years in the Pryor and Turner mines -- but also with black lung disease. Miners were paid in script, which could be redeemed for cash. They had no choice but to shop at the company store or be fired. In 1913, he and his brother were part of the tent colony at Ludlow, in a sagging, cramped tent with 2 others. They supplemented $3.50/week strike pay by hunting for jackrabbits. He recalls Nick Costa and his family, as well as Louis Tikas. When the militia fired on strikers in the tents in April, 1914 Surisky was wounded in the foot and went to the union doctor in Trinidad, Dr. Beshoar. Fighting continued after the tents at Ludlow were burned, until the "regular" army arrived. Surisky recalls the "company-man" sheriff (Jeff Farr) and his deputies (Potts and Shorty Martinez). He also remembers the union member Mike Livoda and speeches given by Mother Jones. He claims "she cussed like hell." After the fighting, he met John D. Rockefeller at a nearby YMCA. He doesn't recall the IWW strike in 1927.
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University of Colorado Boulder Archives
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Surisky, Steve 1897-1991
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1978-02-07
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Coverage (Spatial):
Ludlow (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
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1913/1963
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