{"id":6796,"date":"2014-04-19T10:51:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6796"},"modified":"2014-04-19T10:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-04-19T16:51:01","slug":"ludlow-massacre-a-watershed-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wtf\/ludlow-massacre-a-watershed-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ludlow Massacre – “a watershed moment”"},"content":{"rendered":"

My thanks to Chas CIfton (Southern Rockies Nature Blog<\/a>) for emphasizing the Massacre at Ludlow. Although I think Labor earned some disrepute, there is no doubt that the Rich and Corporations have worked tirelessly for their own profit and gain to discredit Labor. Now, the massacres take place behind closed doors. <\/p>\n

Ludlow Massacre – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. Historian Howard Zinn<\/a> described the Ludlow Massacre as “the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history”.[4]<\/a><\/sup> Congress responded to public outcry by directing the House Committee on Mines and Mining<\/a> to investigate the incident.[5]<\/a><\/sup> Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promoting child labor laws<\/a> and an eight-hour work day. <\/p>\n

The Ludlow site, 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Trinidad, Colorado<\/a>, is now a ghost town<\/a>. The massacre<\/a> site is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granite monument<\/a> in memory of the miners and their families who died that day.[6]<\/a><\/sup> The Ludlow Tent Colony Site<\/a> was designated a National Historic Landmark<\/a> on January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, 2009.[6]<\/a><\/sup> Modern archeological<\/a> investigation largely supports the strikers’ reports of the event.[7]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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My thanks to Chas CIfton (Southern Rockies Nature Blog) for emphasizing the Massacre at Ludlow. Although I think Labor earned some disrepute, there is no doubt that the Rich and Corporations have worked tirelessly for their own profit and gain to discredit Labor. Now, the massacres take place behind closed doors. Ludlow Massacre – Wikipedia, … Continue reading Ludlow Massacre – “a watershed moment”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6797,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6796\/revisions\/6797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}