The Ludlow Massacre
The\xa0Ludlow Massacre\xa0emanated from a labor conflict: the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Company guards attacked a tent colony of 1,200 striking\xa0coal miners\xa0and their families at\xa0Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, with the National Guard using machine guns to fire into the colony. Approximately twenty-one people, including miners' wives and children, were killed. The chief owner of the mine,\xa0John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was widely excoriated for having orchestrated the massacre.[3][4]
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