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    The Ludlow Massacre was a mass killing perpetrated by anti-striker militia during the Colorado Coalfield War. Soldiers from the Colorado National Guard...
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    Ludlow is a ghost town in Las Animas County, Colorado, United States. It was the site of the Ludlow Massacre–part of the Colorado Coalfield War–in 1914...
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    "Ludlow Massacre" is a song by Woody Guthrie about the Ludlow Massacre, a labor conflict in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914. A related song is the "1913 Massacre"...
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    Tensions climaxed at the Ludlow Colony, a tent city occupied by about 1,200 striking coal miners and their families, in the Ludlow Massacre on 20 April 1914 when...
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    1992c. "Militia slaughters strikers at Ludlow, Colorado". History.com. Retrieved November 9, 2015. "The Ludlow Massacre". PBS. Retrieved November 9, 2015....
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  • the Ludlow Massacre Fisher and Ludlow, British car body manufacturing company Ludlows, an English bus company that was bought out in 2007 Ludlow College...
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    Williamsburg in Virginia. He was widely blamed for having orchestrated the Ludlow Massacre and other offenses during the Colorado Coalfield War. Rockefeller was...
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  • American history since the Civil War". He was shot and killed during the Ludlow Massacre, the bloodiest event of the strike, on 20 April, 1914. Tikas was born...
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    upon, and the ultimate death of, strike leader Louis Tikas during the Ludlow Massacre. He was the son of librarian Klas August Linderfelt. Most of what is...
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    Virginia and the Colorado Coal Strike of 1913–1914 (during which the Ludlow Massacre occurred). The Paint Creek Miners' Union with the help of Hayes, serving...
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    National Guard. He led a portion of the militia that participated in the Ludlow Massacre, part of the 1913-1914 Colorado Coalfield War. After the First World...
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    and militia engaged in a shootout at the Ludlow tent colony, resulting in what is known as the Ludlow Massacre. Major Patrick Hamrock and Linderfelt organized...
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    with a machine gun. They would repeat this type of tactic during the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado the next year, with even more disastrous results. By 1920...
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    Brewster stated that Linderfelt was the reason for the massacre. On the day that the Ludlow Massacre occurred, Lieutenant Karl Linderfelt, commander of one...
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    groups looking to organize. The agents were also responsible for the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 in Colorado. Albert had already been in the Matewan area and...
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    National Guard uniforms augmented by non-uniformed mine guards. The Ludlow massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel & Iron...
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    involved with the Colorado conflicts of 1913 and 1914, including the Ludlow Massacre. In 1934 he was living in Woolwich, Maine, where he helped organize...
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    the United Mine Workers called a strike against coal-mining companies in Ludlow, Colorado. The largest mining company was the Rockefeller family-owned Colorado...
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    20, 1914 Ludlow Massacre that killed over a dozen women and children when Colorado National Guard opened fire on a striker encampment at Ludlow, 22 miles...
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  • Baldwin–Felts detectives. This incident, along with events such as the Ludlow Massacre in Colorado six years earlier, marked an important turning point in...
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    ordering National Guard troops into Ludlow, Colorado during the Colorado Coalfield War, which resulted in the Ludlow Massacre. He was also instrumental in starting...
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  • Woody Guthrie) by Bob Dylan (originally titled "Song to Woody"), "The Ludlow Massacre", by Guthrie, "A Letter to Syracuse" by English folksingers Dave Cartwright...
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    deadliest massacre in Colorado history took place in 1914 in Ludlow. Crime portal History portal United States portal Colorado portal Ludlow massacre List...
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  • Organized labour portal Anti-union violence Ludlow massacre Herrin massacre Lattimer massacre Bay View Massacre Murder of workers in labor disputes in the...
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  • The Ludlows were a popular Irish folk band in the 1960s. Their name was derived from Woody Guthrie's song "Ludlow Massacre", concerning a fatal miners'...
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    Colorado Labor Wars of 1903–1904, Colorado Coalfield War, and the Ludlow Massacre of April 1914. He was a graduate of the University of Michigan where...
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  • first half of a chapter called "Massacre of the Innocents." She devotes the second half of the chapter to events in Ludlow, Colorado in 1914, the subject...
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    King Coal confronts John D. Rockefeller Jr., and his role in the 1914 Ludlow Massacre in the coal fields of Colorado. Sinclair was an outspoken socialist...
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  • This is a partial list of massacres in the United States; death tolls may be approximate. For single-perpetrator events and shooting sprees, see List...
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    handed them over to the federal U.S. Marshal Service. Following the Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914, strikers launched numerous attacks of both coordinated...
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