“For nearly all the minors, to go on strike was to fall into homelessness. Those who lived in the closed camps lost access to their homes once the strike began, with guards at some mines rousting strikers who did not immediately leave their company-owned homes.” Blood passion written by Scott Martelle, is a book that focuses on the hardships the strikers faced. The struggles before, during, and after the Ludlow massacre. Before the massacre at Ludlow Martelle in context compares the minors to slaves. They work for really small wages, and worked long hours. Life for the minors was difficult after going on strike. Most were stripped of their belongings, and settled in tent colonies nearby. What was interesting, was how the miners worked together
