Burlington Public Library

Colorado Collection out of print

Joe Mantonio is thirteen, and he's tough. He works in the coal mines with his pa. He makes ten cents an hours. That's not much, but it sure beats going to school and facing smart-aleck Arnie. Of course, his baseball pal Eddie is also hitting eighth-grade this year and then there's Moira. She is pretty and smart, too. It's September 1913 in the beautiful, cool Colorado mountains. But there is no "good life" in the mining camps near Ludlow. ...

Killing for Coal offers an original perspective on the Ludlow Massacre and the Great Coalfield War. In a sweeping story that begins in the coal beds and culminates with the deadliest strike in American history, Thomas Andrews examines the causes and consequences of the militancy that erupted in colliers' strikes over the course of nearly half a century. He reveals a complex world shaped by the connected forces of land, labor, corporate industrialization,...

When the bloodiest labor dispute in U.S. history burst forth in 1913-14 in the coal fields of Southern Colorado, the miners knew whom to praise, and the owners knew whom to blame. Mary Harris Jones, known from New York to Colorado as Mother Jones, could incite a riot or calm a crowd with her amazing oratory gifts. She dedicated her life to helping miners organize to negotiate, even demand, better wages and working conditions.

"The story of the seven months' tensions that resulted in the deaths of twenty-one persons at Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914 during the violence at the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company"--Introduction.

"One of the most significant events in the struggle for labor laws in America played out in Las Animas County in the spring of 1914. With the control of much of Colorado's coal mines in the hands of just a few companies, miners grew increasingly intolerant of low wages and dangerous working conditions. Despite efforts to suppress union activity, the United Mine Workers of America called a strike in September of 1913. Over the next few months, tensions...

The two defining moments of Western coalfield labor relations have been massacres: Wyoming's Rock Springs Massacre of 1885 and Colorado's Ludlow Massacre of 1914. But it wasn't just the company guns that were responsible for the deaths of 28 Chinese coal miners and 13 women and children. It was the result of racial tensions and the economics of the coal industry itself. In Industrializing the Rockies, David A. Wolff places these deadly conflicts...