"History"

Between 1884 and 1912 1,708 miners killed in Colorado mines, the highest rate in the nation. 1903 the United Mine Workers of America lead a strike in the Northern Colorado coal fields. 1908, strike starts in the northern Colorado coal fields, these strikers marched to southern Colorado to try and get the southern miners to strike and join the union, it fails. September 17,1913, strike in the southern Colorado coal fields starts. Tent colonies set up by the UMWA, the most famous or infamous one is called Ludlow. The winter is one of the coldest, up to this time, to ever happen in Colorado. 90% of miners join the strike. The miners, some not all, were fighting against Industrial Feudalism (the company controlled everything, miners charged for all things that they need to live, they are even payed in company script, a type of company money, which they can only use at the company store. They are only allowed to see company approved doctors and their children can only attend company schools.) Also need to remember that children, usually boys, as young as 11 and 12 would go to work in the mines.