Colorado miners' strike clippings [microform], 1914-1915.

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Colorado miners' strike clippings [microform], 1914-1915.

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Clippings concerning the strike in April 1914, by southern Colorado coal miners against the Coloroado Fuel and Iron Company in which the strikers demanded the right to form labor unions, an eight-hour work day, and other changes, and subsequent battles between strikers and the state militia forces, the Ludlow massacre, murder and arson charges, and federal intervention in May.

1 reel of microfilm (35mm)

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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SNAC Resource ID: 6716152

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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