2/13/2024 0 Comments World of warships colorado review![]() ![]() At dusk, the Guard moved down from the hills with torches, set fire to the tents, and the families fled into the hills thirteen people were killed by gunfire. The women and children dug pits beneath the tents to escape the gunfire. , was lured up into the hills to discuss a truce, then shot to death by a company of National Guardsmen. ![]() On the morning of April 20, a machine gun attack began on the tents. In April 1914, two National Guard companies were stationed in the hills overlooking the largest tent colony of strikers, the one at Ludlow, housing a thousand men, women, children. ![]() When they lasted through the cold winter of 1913-1914, it became clear that extraordinary measures would be needed to break the strike. Guardsmen beat miners, arrested them by the hundreds, rode down with their horses parades of women in the streets of Trinidad, the central town in the area. The Guard brought strikebreakers in under cover of night, not telling them there was a strike. They soon found out the Guard was there to destroy the strike. The miners at first thought the Guard was sent to protect them, and greeted its arrival with flags and cheers. With the miners resisting, refusing to give in, the mines not able to operate, the Colorado governor (referred to by a Rockefeller mine manager as ‘our little cowboy governor’) called out the National Guard, with the Rockefellers supplying the Guard’s wages. The death list of miners grew, but they hung on, drove back an armored train in a gun battle, fought to keep out strikebreakers. The gunmen hired by the Rockefeller interests - the Baldwin-Felts Detective Agency - using Gatling guns and rifles, raided the tent colonies. One of 1,200 striking miner families in the Ludlow Tent Colony. ![]()
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