Peter Riley110th anniversary Radical Reprint (Freedom News) https://freedomnews.org.uk/2024/06/16/radical-reprint-the-ludlow-strike/
It was early springtime when the strike was on,
They drove us miners out of doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.
- #WoodyGuthrie 1944
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Ludlow Massacre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
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Radical Reprint: The Ludlow Strike - Freedom News
In June 1914 much of that month’s edition of Freedom was given over to a lengthy analysis in the aftermath of the Ludlow Massacre, one of the most infamous strikebreaking incidents in United States history. The mass killing of striking coal miners and their families by National Guard soldiers and paramilitary thugs had shocked observers