BECAUSE... Today is LABOR DAY ... The Colorado Fuel and Iron - TopicsExpress



          

BECAUSE... Today is LABOR DAY ... The Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I) was largely owned and controlled by John D. Rockefeller and Jay Goulds financial heirs. While it came to control many plants throughout the country, its main plant was a steel mill on the south side of Pueblo, Colorado. CF&Is early labor relations were set in the context of the volatile and violent Colorado Labor Wars. Over the course of its history, the company has had numerous major labor disputes. CF&I was accused of brutality against the UMWA in a strike called by that organization in 1903-04. The best known strike culminated in the infamous Ludlow Massacre at the Ludlow Massacre Depot, a stop on the Colorado and Southern Railroad which was near several coal mines, in 1914.[28] Evidence from CF&Is archives reveals that the company infiltrated, propagandized against, and attempted to disrupt the Industrial Workers of the World. https://youtube/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Posted on: Mon, 01 Sep 2014 21:13:15 +0000

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