|
Collection Name:
|
Colorado Coal Project
|
|
Title:
|
Barron Beshoar reflects what happened in Ludlow
|
|
Creator:
|
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
|
|
Creator:
|
McMahan, Ronald L.
|
|
Subject:
|
Coal mines and mining
|
|
Subject:
|
Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
|
|
Subject:
|
United Mine Workers of America--History--20th century
|
|
Subject:
|
Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
|
|
Subject:
|
Coal miners--Colorado--Ludlow--1910-1920
|
|
Subject:
|
Militia--Colorado
|
|
Subject:
|
Tikas, Louis, -1914
|
|
Subject:
|
Labor movement--United States--History--20th century
|
|
Subject:
|
Interviews
|
|
Description:
|
The events of the Ludlow Massacre are retold, beginning with the U.M.W.A preparing for and organizing strikes in the southern Colorado coal fields. The miners had seven demands such as better wages, an eight-hour working day, and personal freedoms from company control. Striking miners and their families formed their own camp and tried to stop scab workers. Company guards terrorized camp inhabitants. The state militia is described and how they provoked Louis Tikas, the camp leader. The militia started firing their machine guns on the camp, while most of the men were at a Union meeting in Trinidad. Gun fire was exchanged all day long. Women and children took refuge in their tents. Others ran out into the arroyos. In the evening, the miners had run out of ammunition and the militia charged in and set fire to the tents.
|
|
Description Type:
|
summary
|
|
Publisher:
|
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
|
|
Contributor:
|
Beshoar, Barron B., 1907-1987
|
|
Date:
|
1976
|
|
Type:
|
Text
|
|
Format:
|
application/pdf
|
|
Identifier:
|
narv_coloradoCoal_transBeshoar4.pdf
|
|
Identifier ARK:
|
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/4d0n6r51w04d
|
|
Language:
|
English
|
|
Coverage (Spatial):
|
Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
|
|
Coverage (Temporal):
|
1914
|
|
Coverage (Spatial):
|
Ludlow (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
|
|
Coverage (Spatial):
|
Trinidad (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)
|
|
Rights:
|
This Item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s). URI http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
|