Colorado Coalfield War

Colorado Coalfield War Part of the Coal Wars Colorado National Guard soldiers during the Ludlow Massacre in 1914. Date 1913 - 1914 Location Colorado, United States Belligerents Colorado National Guard Colorado Fuel and Iron Colorado Coal miners Casualties and losses 69 - 199

Coal Wars Coal Creek War Bituminous coal miners' strike Lattimer massacre Illinois coal wars Battle of Virden Pana massacre Anthracite coal strike Westmoreland coal miners' strike Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike Colorado coalfield war Ludlow Massacre Hartford coal mine riot West Virginia coal wars Battle of Matewan Battle of Blair Mountain Alabama miners' strike Herrin Massacre Columbine massacre Harlan County War Battle of Evarts

The Colorado Coalfield War was a major labor uprising in Colorado between 1913 and 1914. It culminated in the Ludlow Strike, which ended as a massacre when the Colorado National Guard attacked a tent city occupied by striking coal miners. In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines over the next ten days, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the National Guard along a forty-mile front from Trinidad to Walsenburg. The entire strike would cost between sixty-nine and 199 lives. It was described as the "deadliest strike in the history of the United States".^[1][2]

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Further reading

• Thomas G. Andrews, Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.
• Anthony R. DeStefanis, “The Road to Ludlow: Breaking the 1913-14 Southern Colorado Coal Strike,” Journal of the Historical Society, 12 no. 2 (September 2012): 341-390.
• Scott Martelle, Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in the American West. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 2007

Major armed conflicts in American labor union history 19th century Great Railroad Strike of 1877 Rock Springs massacre, 1885 Bay View Massacre, 1886 Haymarket affair, 1886 Thibodaux massacre, 1887 Morewood massacre, 1891 Homestead Strike, 1892 Coeur d'Alene, Idaho labor strike of 1892 Pullman Strike, 1894 Streetcar strikes in the United States, 1895–1929 Lattimer massacre, 1897 Illinois Coal Wars, 1898-1899 20th century Streetcar strikes in the United States, 1895–1929 Colorado Labor Wars, 1903–04 1905 Chicago Teamsters' strike Pressed Steel Car Strike of 1909 Westmoreland County coal strike of 1910–1911 Paint Creek–Cabin Creek strike of 1912 Colorado Coalfield War, including the Ludlow Massacre, 1913–14 Everett massacre, 1916 Bisbee Deportation, 1917 1920 Alabama coal strike Battle of Matewan, 1920 Battle of Blair Mountain, 1921 Herrin massacre, 1922 Hanapepe massacre, 1924 Columbine Mine massacre, 1927 Harlan County War, 1931–32 Auto-Lite strike, 1934 Minneapolis Teamsters Strike of 1934 1934 West Coast waterfront strike Memorial Day massacre of 1937 Hilo Massacre, 1938 Portal:Organized Labour