This has always made me very angry, if you are not familiar with the Ludlow Massacre please read the site I have linked


The Ludlow Massacre (http://a4a.mahost.org/ludlow.html)

Very interesting. Not an isolated event - there are similar stories in France during the XIXth century.
In 1891, the french army shooted mine workers on strike, killing nine and wounding much more.

Hello Astrapol, long time no see.
Yes I know about many instances where governments used violence to stop strikes. This one bothered me more because of the children and women who were killed because they were families of the strikers.

It is a very dark day in our nations history and will always be ther to remind all of us that we can not allow these things to happen ever again.

It is one of many violent confrontations that eventually won the right of workers to organize unions. Laws were passed in the 1930's that ended the violence, and resulted in the unionization of American industry. In the last 30 years that trend has been reversed, and there are fewer unionized workers today. At the same time, real wages have gone down for workers. Now there is an upswing in attempts to unionize workers, but nearly every attempt results in the bringing in of replacement workers, and the regular workers are out of work. Eventually this will probably lead to violence, as it did before.

It is like I was told and I always will remember, " if you do not know and understand history you are doomed to repeat it."

That's not right that we don't know about this. Thank you for sharing that. Now a few people do know about it.

There were many horrible incidents in the history of organized labor in this country. One of the most horrible happened in Calumet, Michigain, in 1913. Striking copper miners and their families had gathered for a Christmas party at Italian Hall. Here is a link to a web site on the incident.

http://www.angelfire.com/mi2/1913/1913T.html

The vast majority of the 73 people who died in this incident were innocent children. It was never proved that the person who yelled fire was an employee of the copper company, but there were witnesses who said that a group of men with company ties were seen in the area shortly before. It was truly a tragedy, regardless of who yelled the fatal false warning.