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.
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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.
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