Colorado Labor Wars: 1894 Cripple Creek Strike
Submitted by gjohnsit on Sat, 08/22/2015 - 11:23amMost people who know something about union history are familiar with the Ludlow Massacre in 1914, where the Baldwin Felts Detective Agency and the Colorado National Guard killed 18 people, mostly women and children.
What most people aren't familiar with is that the Ludlow Massacre was just one event in more than 30 years of bloody labor struggle in the mountains of Colorado.