Colorado Coal Strike Research Paper

The Colorado Coal strike was one of the most influential and large scale from September 1913 to December 1914 in the southern Colorado in the early 20th century of America. On the April 1914, the battle battle was broke out that between the striking coal miners and the Colorado National Guard at the Ludlow Tent Colony, the battle which caused the multiple deaths which including innocent victims 2 women and 11 children. They died in the cellar under the tent when the tents were set fire by the guard. This massacre has evolved into the Ten Days’ War, as the striking miners retaliated with the merciless massacre of the militia until the President Woodrow Wilson sent federal troops stationed in southern Colorado to intervene and mediate the battle.