During the Colorado Coalfield War, around 1,200 striking miners demanding better working conditions set up a tent colony in Ludlow, Colorado. On April 20th, 1914, the National Guard and strikebreakers hired by the Rockefellers ambushed the Ludlow colony. At least 20 striking miners, including 12 children, were brutally murdered. Historian Thomas G. Andrews has called it the “deadliest strike in the history of the United States.”
The US Government has attempted to erase this event from history, but we should refuse to let that happen. The brutal history of suppressing labor movements in the United States needs to be known.