THESIS
Before the Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914, miners in Colorado were experiencing working in harsh conditions and low pay. The conflict between the Colorado miners and the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation was an ongoing dispute about the miners wanting higher pay and better living and working conditions. A non-compromise was reached when the miners stopped striking and the militiamen got what they wanted. As a result of the Ludlow Massacre, the miners acquired laboring rights resulting in better living conditions and coal companies making a profit, the Center for Public Integrity won a Pulitzer Prize for its report on the efforts made to deny benefits to coal miners with black-lung disease, John Hickenlooper …show more content…
During this time period Colorado miners went on strike against the powerful Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation. Louis Tikas and Elian M. Ammons were the main contributors to the massacre. Tikas was the main leader of the strike itself and John Lawson was the assistant leader. Ammons was the central leader of the opposing side of the conflict by sending the National Guard. The main conflict was the miners expressing disapproval of the low pay from the Colorado government. The compromise that came about was the Colorado miners giving up all their concessions and the Colorado National Guard getting what they wanted. This demonstrates that not all conflicts have a resolution where both sides come to an agreement, for it was a one sided settlement.
PRIOR EVENTS
-A prior event to the Ludlow Massacre was the commence on the Coal War. This war was a commotion of economic exploitation of workers while there was social alteration in the coalfields and mines.
-On June 28, 1914 the event that was accused of mainly started the first world war occured. On that day Austro-Hungary blamed the attack on the her to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand when really his wife shot him to death. This caused war to break out between countries and tensions were already very high and may have caused more influence on conflicts like the …show more content…
They dynamited the Miners Union Hall protesting for right. The Ludlow Massacre was a protest on much of the same reasons as both groups of miners were protesting for higher pay Also in 1914 the Dublin Lockout in Ireland occured. There were tram strikes from the workers and two people were killed with many others injured. In both the Ludlow Massacre and the Dublin Lockout people were protesting for their workers rights and rebelling against the people in charge.In Saint John Canada in 1914 there was also a railway strike. Ten thousand workers joined together at a trolley strike and destroyed things like streetcars, traction company, offices, etc. During this time many workers from all over were rebelling and fighting for their worker
Before the Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914, miners in Colorado were experiencing working in harsh conditions and low pay. The conflict between the Colorado miners and the Colorado National Guard and Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation was an ongoing dispute about the miners wanting higher pay and better living and working conditions. A non-compromise was reached when the miners stopped striking and the militiamen got what they wanted. As a result of the Ludlow Massacre, the miners acquired laboring rights resulting in better living conditions and coal companies making a profit, the Center for Public Integrity won a Pulitzer Prize for its report on the efforts made to deny benefits to coal miners with black-lung disease, John Hickenlooper …show more content…
During this time period Colorado miners went on strike against the powerful Colorado Fuel and Iron Corporation. Louis Tikas and Elian M. Ammons were the main contributors to the massacre. Tikas was the main leader of the strike itself and John Lawson was the assistant leader. Ammons was the central leader of the opposing side of the conflict by sending the National Guard. The main conflict was the miners expressing disapproval of the low pay from the Colorado government. The compromise that came about was the Colorado miners giving up all their concessions and the Colorado National Guard getting what they wanted. This demonstrates that not all conflicts have a resolution where both sides come to an agreement, for it was a one sided settlement.
PRIOR EVENTS
-A prior event to the Ludlow Massacre was the commence on the Coal War. This war was a commotion of economic exploitation of workers while there was social alteration in the coalfields and mines.
-On June 28, 1914 the event that was accused of mainly started the first world war occured. On that day Austro-Hungary blamed the attack on the her to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Archduke Franz Ferdinand when really his wife shot him to death. This caused war to break out between countries and tensions were already very high and may have caused more influence on conflicts like the …show more content…
They dynamited the Miners Union Hall protesting for right. The Ludlow Massacre was a protest on much of the same reasons as both groups of miners were protesting for higher pay Also in 1914 the Dublin Lockout in Ireland occured. There were tram strikes from the workers and two people were killed with many others injured. In both the Ludlow Massacre and the Dublin Lockout people were protesting for their workers rights and rebelling against the people in charge.In Saint John Canada in 1914 there was also a railway strike. Ten thousand workers joined together at a trolley strike and destroyed things like streetcars, traction company, offices, etc. During this time many workers from all over were rebelling and fighting for their worker