Working-Class Poverty and the Southern Colorado Coal Strike

The working class is an indivisible part of the capitalist society and as the basis for building, supplying and supporting our product producers, the working class and the poor of the workers have many struggles about the right to work Faced with. The history of the labor movement in the United States is often suppressed by the mainstream culture and we believe that the current labor union law is a matter of course, but what has been forgotten for a long time is It is a bloody battle. The ideological problem faced by modern working classes has been shown to arise from the ideal of the same social construction that existed in past labor wars such as Colorado coal mine strikes.

Since 1900, United Mine Workers of America has begun construction of coal miners in western provinces, including the southern Colorado province. The union decided to focus on the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company due to its conservative and remote Rockefeller and other investor management strategies. In order to stop or stop the strike, coal companies hired strikers mainly from Mexico, Southern Europe and Eastern Europe. The management team of Colorado Fuel and Iron mix immigrants of various nationalities within the mine and thus interfere with communication that may lead to organization.

This area of ​​Colorado since 1881 - from the lush hills of Fremont and Las Animas to limestone in Howard, Colorado, to the coke oven at the suburb of Hallofo in southern Colorado - flourishes according to one theory: We harvest natural resources such as iron ore, limestone, coal and transport them in Pueblo and construct the west part of the United States with them "rail and nail". Initially, the railroad supplied fuel to the iron horse and brought the middle western harvest to the coast. Then steel built a city in modern America. From the 1880's until the Second World War, Pueblo was the only city in the west of St. Louis with integrated ironworks - Colorado fuel and iron -

At the peak of 1910, Colorado state coal mining industry employed 15,864 employees, accounting for 10% of state employment. Colorado's coal industry is dominated by a few businesses. Colorado Fuel and Iron, one of the largest coal operators in the West, one of the most powerful companies in the country, once had 7,050 employees, managed 71,837 acres of coal (290.71 square kilometers). Colorado Fuel and Iron Company was acquired by John D. Rockefeller in 1902. Nine years later he transferred control to John Rockefeller, a son who was 26 when he was a company. Broadway in New York

On April 20, 1914, a Colorado state guard fired in a group of coal miners armed and fired at a temporary settlement in Ludlow, Colorado. Even today, Calb Crain 's Ludlow carnage written in New Yorker in 2009 is one of the most bloody events in the history of American industrial enterprises, according to most past records, at least 66 There are men, women, children. He was killed by attacks and subsequent riots. Today 's memories are not as good as other dark events in America' s labor history like Triangle shirt factories, but 146 lives have been lost, but Ludlow 's slaughter - Wallace Stegner once called it "The most harsh and darkest" incident in the American labor history "- the attitude of the country to labor and capital has changed in the coming decades