You ought to be out raising hell. This is the fighting age. Put on your fighting clothes.
-Mother Jones
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Wednesday October 21, 1903
From The Indianapolis News: "No statement as to Strike."
President John Mitchell, of the United Mine Workers, said to-day that nothing could be given out in regard to the conference held [Monday] between the executive officers of the organization in regard to calling a strike in district 15, embracing Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and New Mexico. The miners are still hopeful that a settlement of the trouble with the operators may be reached without having to issue a strike call.
SOURCE
The Indianapolis [IN] News
-of Oct 20, 1903
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Tuesday October 21, 1913
Trinidad, Colorado - Nine Hundred Striking Miners March to Honor Luca Vahernick
Funeral at Holy Trinity Catholic Church
Trinidad, Colorado
The funeral procession for our fallen union brother, Luca Vahernick, murdered by gunthugs last Friday, was led by members of two Slavic fraternal orders. Next came the nine-hundred striking miners led by the officers of District 15 and the International Vice-President of the United Mine Workers of America, Frank J. Hayes. In front of Holy Trinity Catholic Church, the hearse stopped, and the striking miners passed by with their hats in their hands.
An inquest into the death of Luca Vahernick will be held this afternoon.
Governor Ammons is due to arrive in Trinidad today. We have reports that Mother Jones will lead a parade to mark the Governor's arrival. We will have more on the Governor's visit in tomorrow's issue of Hellraisers.
SOURCES
El Paso [TX] Herald
-of Oct 21, 1913
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Utah Press, 1982
Mother Jones
The Most Dangerous Woman in America
-by Elliott J Gorn
NY, 2001
Photo: by the young Louis R Dold, is of the funeral for those Ludlow Martyrs who were Roman Catholics. Used here to represent the funeral of Brother Vahernick.
http://commons.wikimedia.org/...
A nice view of the front of the church in modern times is here:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/...
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Monday October 21, 2013
More on the young photographer, Louis R Dold:
Most of the surviving photographs of the Ludlow massacre were taken by Louis R. Dold, whom Papanikolas, amazingly enough, tracked down and interviewed for his book. (Elsewhere Dold’s first name is sometimes spelled “Lewis” and his last name “Dodd.”) Dold’s Ludlow photographs, and those taken by several others, are available for browsing in the Denver Public Library’s Western History collection. Here, for example, is an evocative one of the pit below Tent No. 58, which Dold has annotated as follows: “Hole Where Bodies of 11 Women and 2 Children Were Recovered From After Fire at Ludlow Coloney [sic].” You can also see strikers’ children playing in the snow with what is either an effigy or a scarecrow; the chaos in Trinidad when a panicked National Guard general ordered his cavalry to “ride down” a group of women protestors; the Death Special; strikers playing baseball; numerous shots of the Ludlow camp before and after it was razed; and an image of Tikas’s corpse, mislabeled in the Denver Public Library’s files as being that of another striker (the indefatigable Papanikolas writes of having come across the same misidentification when he visited the archives in person).
Sadly, the links to the photos in this article do not work,
but still worth checking out, scroll down for info on Dold:
"Notebook: The Ludlow Massacre Revisted"
http://www.steamthing.com/...
Some of these photos are by Dold, not always well labeled:
http://digital.denverlibrary.org/...
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Coal Miner's Grave-Idaho Silver Hammer Band
So, is this little marker his only memorial today,
For a man who gave his life for the U. M. W. of A?
Is this how we remember all the sacrifices he made,
To let the briers and weeds take over his Union and grave?
-Hazel Dickens