Then came Ludlow and the nation heard.
Little children roasted alive make a front page story.
Dying by inches of starvation and exposure does not.
-Mother Jones
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Saturday October 31, 1914
From the Appeal to Reason: State Militia Company Arrives in Ludlow
John Murray continues to report for the Appeal from Trinidad. In this week's report comes the disquieting news that a company of state militia have arrived in Ludlow from Denver.
Murray states that:
..uniformed and equipped they stepped from the train onto the ground which is stained with the blood of mothers and children in the last militia raid.
According to Murray, the miners are preparing to defend themselves should the need arise:
It goes without saying that the miners will not allow themselves to be caught in the same death trap that was laid for them last spring.
The watchword is "REMEMBER LUDLOW!"
From today's Appeal to Reason:
Another Ludlow Massacre Being Staged in Colorado
By telegraph to Appeal to Reason.
Trinidad, Colo.-General Chase of the Colorado state militia has notified all commanding officers to prepare for action as he is in receipt of a semi-official report that three thousand armed strikers in Colorado and the four adjoining states are preparing to attack the militia if they return to the strike zone. Striking miners in all camps around Trinidad and Walsenburg are organizing military companies and will drill for a time with out arms. United Mine Workers from their headquarters have sent telegrams to all central labor organizations in the United States asking for aid in this crisis.
Preparing to defend their tent colonies once again,
should the need arise.
The Socialist local of Las Animas county has wired the national Secretary of the Socialist party as follows:
Mine guards reorganizing as state militia in all scab mining camps and appear openly with guns. Regulars acting as scabherders. Presence of regulars means filling up mines with scabs and starving strikers into submission, while withdrawal means another Ludlow. Local Las Animas County urges national office to request all locals to immediately hold meetings and adopt resolutions calling upon President Wilson to force corporations to settle strike or close mines.
JOHN MURRAY.
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Militia Gunmen Arrive
BY JOHN MURRAY.
Staff Correspondent Appeal to Reason.
Trinidad, Colo.-The first company of state militia has just arrived in Ludlow from Denver. Armed, uniformed and equipped they stepped from the train onto the ground which is stained with the blood of mothers and children in the last militia raid.
Ludlow remembers the gunthug militia.
At the station, to meet them and conduct them to their nearby camp at Hastings, was a coal company representative by the name of Curry.
The federal soldiers under Major Cabel gave them the right of way-this was the order from Washington.
Among the incoming militiamen were many faces recognized by the miners as being the same gunmen who helped make Forbes and Ludlow a shambles.
The federals and the militia are now working in Colorado like interlocking directorates. Captain Shelly of the United States army is reported to be at present in Denver training the officers of several new militia companies how to rectify the mistakes made in their past encounters with the miners.
War on a scientific basis will soon open in Colorado.
Rockefeller has the reputation of employing the best known experts for any matter relating to the foundation of his interests.
State Treasurer M. A. Leddy has just announced that he has purchased, on behalf of the state, $100,000 worth of the bonds issued to maintain the militia. To do this he used the school funds, explaining that he had the right to invest this money in "any good security."
This will give Governor Ammons money enough to furnish equipment for new militia companies. But the men for these companies can only be found in the coal camps of the operators because none of the former "tin willies" that enlisted from behind store counters and school desks can be persuaded to try again. The plan of campaign is plain to all in Colorado-the house of Rockefeller provides the soldiers and the state equips them.
Interviewed as to what might be looked for from the United States troops, Colonel Lockett states that although he has received no orders to leave the strike zone, yet he is of the opinion that the federal troops "will not be needed when the militia comes."
It goes without saying that the miners will not allow themselves to be caught in the same death trap that was laid for them last spring.
[photographs added]
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And the Appeal further reminds us of Rockefellers prophetic testimony, given just 14 days before the Massacre at Ludlow:
Now hear the words of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as delivered to the United States committee on Mines, April 6, 1914:
Mr. Rockefeller: There is just one thing, Mr. Chairman, so far as I understand it, which can be done, as things are at present, to settle this strike, and that is to unionize the camps; and our interest in labor is so profound and we believe so sincerely that that interest demands that the camps shall be open camps, that we expect to stand by the officers at any cost. It is not an accident that this is our position-
The Chairman: And you will do that if it cost all your property and kills all your employes?
Mr. Rockefeller: It is a great principle.
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SOURCE
Appeal to Reason
(Girard, Kansas)
Oct 31, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
IMAGES
The Masses, June 1914, Ludlow by Pancoast
http://dlib.nyu.edu/...
Armed Miners Colorado Coalfield War
http://www.du.edu/...
Gunthug Militia at Ludlow Saloon
http://www.du.edu/...
Ludlow Destroyed by Dold
http://www.wsws.org/...
Machine Gun Directed at Ludlow Tent Colony
http://www.du.edu/...
The Oil of Rockefeller by Ryan Walker
from Appeal to Reason of May 23, 1914
http://www.newspapers.com/...
A Man of Great Principle
http://en.academic.ru/...
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The Battle Cry of Freedom
We will win the fight today, boys,
We'll win the fight today,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Union;
We will rally from the coal mines,
We'll fight them to the end,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Union.
The Union forever, hurrah boys, hurrah!
Down with the gunthugs, and up with the law;
For we're coming, Colorado, we're coming all the way,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Union.
-Frank Hayes
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