Detail View: Colorado Coal Project: 1968 interview with Mike Livoda

Collection Name: 
Colorado Coal Project
Title: 
1968 interview with Mike Livoda
Creator: 
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00101170
Creator: 
Black, Howard
Creator: 
McMahan, Ronald L.
Creator URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94033808
Subject: 
Coal Strike (Colorado : 1913-1914)
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1404237
Subject: 
Labor disputes--Colorado
Subject: 
Strikes and lockouts--Coal mining--Colorado
Subject URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85128770
Subject: 
United Mine Workers of America
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/515758
Subject: 
Coal miners--Personal narratives
Subject: 
Coal mines and mining
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/865355
Subject: 
Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Huerfano County
Subject: 
Coal mines and mining--Colorado--Las Animas County
Subject: 
Interviews
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423832
Description: 
00:05:00 -- Mike Livoda recalls the 1913/1914 coal strike in and near Ludlow, Colorado.
Description Type: 
timeline
Description: 
Recollections of Ludlow: A man sings "Union, Forever". Mike Livoda recognizes a photo of Mother Jones at the head of a parade of women and cries, "God bless Mother Jones!" At Walsenburg and Trinidad miners were fired if their union membership was discovered. In 1913 at Trinidad, the miners' convention voted to strike. The coal companies controlled all the mining camps, including the housing. On 23 Sept. 1913 the strike began at Ludlow during a snow and sleet storm. Miners and their families were forced to move out of company housing during storm. The union initially provided 1 large tent as a temporary shelter for the entire colony. Company guards were mounted, armed, and in large groups (up to 50 men). Ludlow was where the train would stop, bringing in strikebreakers. Guards and miners would clash, especially after a few drinks. John Nemo was killed. There were about 1800 people at Ludlow and about 2000 at Aguilar. Tent colonies appeared at most of the mining camps (Forbes, Suffield, Walsenburg), except at Aguilar (which was a pre-existing, "free town"). Sheriff Belcher wore a steel vest for protection. In Trinidad, someone in the crowd shot and killed Belcher (possibly Zancannelli). Livoda knew 2 men who were "involved": Sam Carter from Oklahoma, A. B. McGeary from Des Moines, Iowa. After the shooting, Livoda gave them each a check and provided them a ride to Dodge City, Kansas, saying "Get out and stay out!"
Description Type: 
summary
Publisher: 
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Contributor: 
Livoda, Mike, 1886-1984
Date: 
1968-11-01
Type: 
Audio
Format: 
audio/mp3
Identifier: 
15-92 Livoda.mp3
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/jf9p5262p7x7
Language: 
English
Relation: 
Title: Interview with Mike Livoda (part 1 of 4)
Relation Type: 
isFormatOf
Relation href: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/372x1c75n873
Coverage (Spatial): 
Las Animas County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
Coverage (Temporal): 
1907/1968
Coverage (Spatial): 
Huerfano County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
Coverage (Spatial): 
Ludlow (Las Animas, Colorado, United States, North America) (populated place)