MIA: History: USA: Ludlow Massacre

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Ludlow Massacre

Morris Hall Pancoast, The Masses,

 


Ludlow, that seems too horrible to be true; Ludlow, where pregnant women were shot down by Rockefeller gunman; Ludlow, where eleven babies were roasted to death for the greed of the capitalist class.

Eugene V. Debs What Did the Old Parties Do?, 1916


Contemporary accounts

The Masses, Sloan

Max Eastman

Class War in Colorado, The Masses, June 1914
The Nice People of Trinidad, The Masses, July 1914
Class Lines in Colorado, The New Review, July 1914

 

Eugene V. Debs

Homestead and Ludlow, The International Socialist Review, August 1914
Louis Tikas: Ludlow's Hero and Martyr, Appeal to Reason, 1915

 

Mother Jones

In Rockefeller's Prisons, from The Autobiography, 1925

 

Other accounts

George N. Falconer The Miners' War in Colorado, The International Socialist Review, February 1914
Rockefeller's Gunmen Murder Women and Children in Colorado, Appeal to Reason, May 1914
The Massacre of the Innocents, Solidarity, May 1914
Leslie H. Marcy The Class War in Colorado, The International Socialist Review, June 1914
Clara Ruth Mozzor Ludlow, The International Socialist Review, June 1914
Vincent St. John The Lesson of Ludlow, The International Socialist Review, June 1914
Mary E. Marcy Whose War is This?, The International Socialist Review, June 1914
After Ludlow-Facts and Thoughts, The International Socialist Review, August 1914
John R. Lawson Lest We Forget, The Washington Socialist, 1915
Paul J. Paulsen Ludlow April 20, 1914, American Socialist, 1915

 

Poems

M.B. Levick Ludlow, The Masses, June 1914
A Paint Creek Miner A Voice From the Pit-Ludlow, The International Socialist Review, July 1914

 


Subsequent accounts

The Ludlow Massacre: An Unknown Page from American Labor History, (Part 2), Young Worker, 1927
Ruth Phillips The Ludlow Massacre. Out of the Past, Labor Action, 1944
Robert Sherman Ludlow, Colorado: A Living Memorial to the Coal Miners, Labor Action, 1945
Bloody Ludlow: Miner Cuts Song of Workers' Struggle, Revolution, 1977
Class War in Colorado, Socialist Worker, 1978
Dave Gibson 1914: War in the US Coalfields, Socialist Review, 2014

 

 


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