The Ludlow Massacre |

The conflict between striking mineworkers and the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company comes to a deadly climax on April 20, 1914. Two women and 11 children will suffocate to death in a cellar dug underneath a tent in the colony where striking mineworkers and their families had been living for over six months.

When details of the Battle at Ludlow and the disregard for the lives of the women and children at the worker's camp come to light, the nation reacts with horror and outrage. Historian Howard Zinn described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history."

Music from Epidemic Sound.

Sources for this episode include:

• A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn
• historycolorado.org
• Eyewitness to Murder: Recounting the Ludlow Massacre
• History - UMWA
• pbs.org
• revolutionnewsstand.com
• Louis Tikas
• C-Span: Ludlow Coal Miners' Strike and Massacre
• Old Man Trump - woodyguthrie.org