Hello everybody. My grandfather Giuseppe Battista Mucci was a coal miner in Colorado around 1910. LIke many other people from the italian mountains, he came to USA to earn a salary, to feed his poor family in Italy. He escaped the massacre, because he had come back to Europe in time (in time to take part to one of the biggest massacres in XIX century, the world war one).When I was a boy, he used to tell me stories from his living experience. He told me that one day, one of his workmates was hit by a mine trolley. My grandfather and the others could only bring him back to the barrack where they used to sleep and wait till he he died. No medical assistance at all. Battista was really a quiet and polite man. He worked very hard all his life long or a poor salary, but he never complained. But the death of his workmate was really too much to stand.
Italian stone cutters....they were valuable to Boulder, Colorado development....look up Boulder Canon where you can still see the pipeline for water was set in stone.......without them...Boulder wouldn't exist....they were the lifeline to water up at Indian Peaks.....
Honor & glory to our Brothers!! Eternal memory in our hearts!! to Luis tikas (Helias- Anastasios Spantidakis) a Greek labor leader, and all the fighting labors for the Human-labor Rights!! Respect man!!! silence & respect!!!
My Dad went to work in the IL Coal mines at 13, the summer after graduating 8th grade. This was 1920 there was plenty of Teenage boys working the mines. My Dad hand drilled and packed the Dynamite charges. Safety and Child labors laws meant nothing. This was after the Cherry Il coal mine disaster of 1909, where 259 men and boys lost there lives. He went passed that closed mine to go to the mine he working in 1920. Nothing changed until the late 1930's, when the Depression eased up. There was alot of Italians recruited to work the C. mines. In fact most of the Ludlow massacre victims were Italians. The stories of Ludlow made it up to Iowa and Illinois through the Italian Grapevine.
"we told the Colorado governor call the president, tell him call off his national guard, but the national guard belonged to the governor, so he didnt try so very hard." - Woody Guthrie
When I worked in refining I’d stop at the Ludlow memorial every time I passed through. Never anyone around every time I stopped. I’d leave a union sticker and say a prayer for the dead. A very powerful place and you could just feel the energy there every time.
We know this is not being taught in school, so I will teach my school age son about the history of country, and ask him to watch videos like these as a reminder of what the people before us went through for our benefits ! Shameful the way these folks had to deal with these tyrants.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Company store ? I know that ))) In the former Soviet Union in the 90s, factories and factories paid workers with factory products , and now imagine the salary in macaroni ))) (which still had to be sold to Resellers at a low price ))) ha ha ha the entire house in macaroni ))). That's how we learned in practice what a "company Shop" is, a thing that has been historically forgotten all over the world.
@@spartacusjonesmusic You see, we are people of the 21st century, we do not know the history of the 20s-30s ! A precious story. I am 44 years old from birth and seven years ago I read "Grapes of wrath" by the great (as I believe) American writer John Steinbeck ! And I went mad .. A strong resonance..........Next, you study the history of the class struggle in the United States since 1900 (and from the creation of the first trade unions) and generally wonder why the United States is the most proletarian country ! We have a lot to learn from the us workers ! We, the current ancestors of the former state of "workers and peasants" (that is, the former USSR) . Wherever you look in history, you discover something new and precious ! And when they say to me, "the Soviets didn't win world war II against the Nazis without lend lease," I say, "Oh,Yes, if it weren't for the position of the American labor unions! Those who abandoned the class struggle during the struggle of the "Soviets" against Nazism ! Not a single strike ! Only live help from the "brothers in the class" (no matter how FUNNY IT sounds NOW !) That's how dirty Nazi mouths shut up
mhh.. the Ludlow Massacre was that bad for Rockefellers reputation "Rauber-Barons" but luckly enough Rockefeller met Ivy Lee... is considered by some to be the founder of modern public relations. The term Public Relations is to be found for the first time in the preface of the 1897 Yearbook of Railway Literature. "In 1914 he was to enter public relations on a much larger scale when he was retained by John D. Rockefeller Jr to represent his family and Standard Oil, ("to burnish the family image"), after the coal mining rebellion in Colorado known as the "Ludlow Massacre". Upton Sinclair dubbed him "Poison Ivy" after Lee tried to send bulletins saying those that died were victims of an overturned stove, when in fact they were shot by the Colorado militia. From then on he faithfully served the Rockefellers and their corporate interests, including a strong involvement in Rockefeller Center - he was in fact the first to suggest to Junior (against his reservations) that he give to the complex his family name - even after he moved on to set up his own consulting firm. He became an inaugural member of the Council on Foreign Relations in the U.S. when it was established in New York City in 1921." Wikipedia Even if you clean Rockefellers name, the blood of the past doesn't fade away...
Want to know what people did to get the working condictions most people have today. To bad the dumbing down of this country has the coperations pissing on the grave of those who gave all for nothing now it seems.
When your spelling and grammar aren't correct, you take away from your message. I do agree that people were shit on during this time, but things have come ALONG way and rightfully so. The problem today is regulations have go too far. An example of this is the company I work for was fined by MSHA when one of our employees didn't engage the parking brake on a pickup that was in park and had chalks behind and in front of the rear tires.
As a child I grew up within 10 miles of John D. Rockefeller's childhood home in Owasco NY. No one told me he was a beast. As it turns out he was considered the most hated man in the U.S. Eugene O'Neill made not of this in his play "A Moon For The Misbegotten." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moon_for_the_Misbegotten This activity by Rockefeller is just part of the reason for that designation. Today others have taken the place of John D. Rockefeller. The more things change the more things stay the same.
It appears the Rockefellers and a few other extremely wealthy families who ruled the economy during the Gilded Age were like the royalty of Europe prior to democratization; they felt entitled and their rank and file employees were thought of as a necessary component of extracting wealth for them (basically serfs/indentured servants, slightly better off than slaves) but not worried much about their general welfare.
The Rockefellers made America?? I think not. America was a collective effort of countless people contributing what they had. Rockefellers had an advantage that gave them greater responsibility and still ought to. Far be it from us to give credit to a rich man over any who bent their backs over a plow.
It was like listening to my grandma who was 16 yrs old and was in Ludlow. My great grandfather took the family into Walsenburg a few days before and they missed being burned to death. The sacrifices that those brave men ,women and children endured during that time is mind blowing. I can't imagine living in the conditions that they did for the rights that we now have because they stood up to the rich. For each one who perished that day my heart breaks. And for the cowards who damaged the monument you are just that cowards who did it in the night so your face can't be seen.
American elite are always trying to soothe the soul of immigrants history. To the fact they forget who and what they are .And hate on the same struggle… it’s a shame 😢 talk to your kids about more than new iPhones.
My kids great grandmother with Czech immigrant parents was a young girl when this happened... She said her family lived one town over from Ludlow, she knew people who were killed..
It has only taken a century for the Amurikin people to give over the rights these courageous poor fought and died to give us. Maybe it's time for their grandchildren, great grand children to make their struggle matter by restoring the balance between labor and management.
Wilson was a horrible person; that demon set black progress back generations. The man hated Catholics, the poor and was a pawn of the rich. Too bad I share last names with that evil bastard...
Mary Harris aka Mother Jones visits Colorado 7:44 Trinidad and 22:47 after Ludlow massacre, Rockefeller visited w/ Mother Jones, others; formed company union
Americans have become labor slaves all over again. Back in the day a woman had a choice to remain in the home raising her children, No longer. It takes 2 full time jobs just to be middle class. I have yet to meet one average working class mother who doesn't hate having to sacrifice raising her children to be in the work place. Now we have social media raising our children who are turning out to be empathyless narcissist. Also back in the day heart disease was a man's disease because of work related stress but now woman surpass men in heart disease. Labor slavery!
The human Desires, vs needs, drives people to attempt varying deeds, including crime. Deeds considered extreme by some cultures. With near 1/2 the US population non-productive, majority of children in schools today no longer living within a traditional family structure, the slack is taken up [taxes funded] by those with traditional motivation, focus.... and faith. The 'land of plenty' attracts the world. If there were no 'ever increasing, automatic funding' for the perpetually dependency addicted, in essence the very real possibility of non-survival, there would be no need for a 'wall'... No need for borders. The problem with USA.. far too attractive, too prosperous, with individual Freedoms non-existent around the world. There are influential 'Globalists' politicians today, working feverishly while obtaining their own wealth, attempting to level the field.. drag down the USA.. leveling the field... :(
Unions came about solely for the protection of the workers as they had no other form of advocate, surly not the government that at the time believed in very limited involvement in the live of its citizens. The great strides the union made in the lives of its members allowed them to prosper and their families to grow and become educated as much as they wanted to. Somewhere in the 1960's though established unions like the UMWA or the UAW & the Teamsters seemed to be more involved in justifying their own existence over protecting the rank and file. Part of this had to do with federal health and safety laws that took over the protection of the workers from the unions to the point all they were concerned about was more money and that was what strikes at mines & businesses were grounded in and that in itself led to the general public's lack of support for the unions because they were seen as greedy.
Unions may have served a purpose but now working men and women have no need of them, they bring greed and corruption and organized crime into the trades, stealing from both working man and boss alike simply to line their pockets. Try and organize a union on the sites I've worked on and you'll end up with a hammer in your skull at the bottom of a lot of concrete from a really pissed off worker who wasnt gonna let you spead that cancer.
@@jordanhicks5131 So what ? All companies are such beautiful cats ?! They don't steal from your work pocket ? Oh, come on ! I'll never believe it ! Little by little, the companies will press down on workers ' rights and get into the pocket of the worker, if there is no rebuff in the form of a strike or a trade Union. Capitalism is a real thing as long as there is capitalism there will be a need for trade unions. As long as there are Federal laws, there will be those who want to break them and make money on it. So don't bury the unions !
My grandfathers worked in CFI mines all over southern Colorado, and my cousin who passed away several years ago, was the last survivor of the Ludlow massacre. She was 11 months old at the time, much more fortunate than her neighbors.
-Oh yes, the cradle to grave, taxPayer subsidized Somalians in Minnesota, are so enslaved they can barely survive their days and nights at [RUclips's] 'Mall of Somalia'... in Minnesota..
Once the unions are gone., it will surely go back to this. Right to work state and banned guns., it leads us to this... Defenseless, darn millenials think they can fight without guns...
Unions are thieves who steal from the pocket of the working man. You start talking that shit on my crew and you'll be found with a hammer in your head after taking a tumble out of the 60 foot boom lift. Unions served their purpose, now they are avenues for socialist/leftist corruption and organized crime to worm it's way into the trades. They steal from the working man and from the contractors alike, they are organizations of greed who do nothing but serve themselves to your hard earned money
Strike for what? Hell no. Higher salaries, better health benefits, retirement plan, for ALL the coal miners who walk away from coal and help establish solar and wind power. UMWA absolutely has to help miners make the transition from coal to solar and wind. YES WE CAN!
Wow, okay, I remember the Mother Jones magazine, because I was living in Santa Cruz California @ the time it was founded. Now after all this time I'm connecting to the real woman Mary Harris . THANK YOU!
I'm glad to see that this history will NEVER be forgotten.With eleven children dead you have to wonder how low trash like the guards, National guards/ Militia, the governor all lived with themselves afterwards.
what i dont get is this...why do they always portray people as being so dang stupid?? like they didnt know how to live unless someone else "showed them how" what?? lol thats ridiculous
My deepest gratitude for keep bringing force & exposing - the truth, & for keeping alive all our history of us all & our collective & single one past of such really & truly fundamental - detrimentally crucial importance memories. I only just wish to & truly must do make this one significant clarifying correction in some definition wording & words used by this man Dr. W. J. Convert, who says, that the mining-owners (supposedly) saw this strike as: “AN ATTACK ON & TO THEIRS RIGHT(S) TO & OF THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY”. Well, that may be so, but in all our real true life world reality of all people & things THE REAL TRUE MAIN REASON & CAUSE of & for this very strike as is for the rest of them are truly the endless & such the numerous - all working men strikes against their employers - IT IS ALWAYS & IT IS ONLY FOR &OR BECAUSE OF THEIRS ALL SUCH ONE & ALL THE SAME VERY REASON of all theirs such much far too beyond it all -too harsh or hard or unfair but their real mis- & far too horrific treatments of theirs one for all & such “self-righteous” imperial-feudalist dead-stead-convinced superiority’s over the rest & above all the others, theirs such much too despicable gross selfishness-sickness & disease of self-indulgence fuels all of theirs really border-less size-less & limit-less mega cosmic proportions mass gluttony their evil black-holed greed breeds real-life-nightmare monsters with the slave-owners out-look on of individual & theirs world & humanity slave owner view - is beyond in- un- & non-humane but is one - predatory-parasite’ mentality. And that is the REAL TRUTH & TRUE FACT. Thus, let us ALL, then, but do call IT as & for WHAT ALL OF IT REALLY & EXACTLY IS.... without any such two-faced “diplomacies” & double-speaking pretentiousness & out-right lying in & for the sake of “political or & social correctness” of “sugar-coating” keeping on “beating around the bushes”.
13:01 The Greek revolution against the Ottoman empire happened in 1821. There is no way that someone could had fight in that war and still be alive in 1913
This is partly correct. The Greek revolution occurred in 1821 but only a quarter of recent Greece was liberated. For example my area Epirus was not liberated until 1912 and till then two uprisings were done until liberation. Louis Tikas homeland, the island of Crete was liberated around 1900 and till then many uprisings were done. So the comment is correct. The greek miners were experienced in warfare. Actually when the greco-turkish war of 1912 occurred hundreds of greek American volunteers returned to Greece to fight and they were back a year later, just a little before ludlow massacre...
@@deltalou8987 -Family works their mules on high country Colorado ranch. More sure footed in mountains, carry heavier loads on stronger bones, not fussy eaters and tire less easily. Horses are for parades :)
My Grandfather worked these mines and he would tell me the mules in the lower workings lived their entire life underground because it was to hard to bring them back up the shaft . When he was a boy he would sit at the bottom of the shaft in the dark because candles were to expensive and wait for the mules pulling the oar carts to send them topside to be emptied .
filippos this piece of land that I stand on is my Battlefield and my home ill defend it with my life if it be . many people have fought and died so we can be here side by side. all you fascists bound to lose
We all belong to the land and came from the Earth. We'll soon return there. The land doesn't belong to anyone. UNITE & FIGHT BACK against slavery. People are born free and should remain free until the land take us back to it's hands. Fascism is the ideology of the slaves. I'm a free man and want others to be free.
Where I stand is MINE and I'll fight for it Under the right conditions it pays me CAPITAL to own it, try to take it and there will be blood spilled on it.
In a perverse way, this episode proves that racism in NOT at the core of the American Experience. It does so by showing that the property-owning class is willing and able to slaughter WORKERS of ANY race, creed, or religion!
@@mar25947 people like the individual who made this comment want the government to be involved in every aspect of our lives when they’ve proven time and time again regardless of party (more Democrat then Republican) that they can’t be trusted. I am tho a believer in modern labor laws and maybe even advancing some of them depending on what the subject is.
Nobody Knows They are not required to pay them a “living” wage. They are required to pay them a basic wage. Low skill work that anyone can do results in pay that is low. Go to school and get a degree and you can earn a “living” wage. Quit forcing companies to pay something they are not required to pay for. Want to get more money, find a better job!
@@anthonyrazzano787 if the company is unable to pay a living wage and the workers have to be on public aid( housing, WIC, food stamps, and Medicaid) then said company should pay higher taxes for causing the rising need for government assistance in the community. But Walmart, Amazon and target all have lawyers to find loopholes to get out of paying the correct amount of taxes. I can’t afford to pay for my sons college and with your fucked up logic he isn’t worth a living wage or healthcare.
my ancestors were brought into Colorado to break the Ludlow strike....they were austrians/ukranians....recruited in NYC....I am sure they had NO clue of the fight at Ludlow....they didn't speak english.....they were "played" by the mining companies...and I had a great uncle who died at a mining accident somewhere in the Lousiville/Erie area....we have NO clue....his life was NOT important and no records exist.......may the mine owners rot in h*ll for what they did to immigrant families just trying to make a living....feed their children....
If it wasn't for workers fighting (and dying) for fair pay, fair working hours, and safe working conditions most of us would be living in a company town earning scrip. Hurrah for socialist initiatives! 🎉
Bernie is a great candidate to change things up for the betterment of America and the worker's. I think we're going to have a great man. Bernie would make great changes, and STILL ARE HERE for the better. You can think about it, but, I want you to think of what would be bad? Can't get anyone worse than Don. Bernie is for change for the better. Bidens going to be a strong president, but I see the status quote from his administration. Very comfy. My opinion, change is good! Run, BERNIE, BEAT ALL CHALLENGERS, AND BE OUR PRESIDENT!.
@matt s Are you happy with his disregard of our Constitution. Remember Trump's words, The so called phoney Constition. And yes, I have hated him for many years. I saw the horse's arse on Tom Snyder in 1978. Knew he was an idiot, and a con man. and tasteless as he's now.. You can say what you want. He's 6 pussy. I would have loved playing him in any sport when I was younger. This guy has no clue. That's why I don't like him. He's beyond a rotten president. I will be so happy, but I realize the stupid people voting for the DICTATOR tRump. I think he is a traitor. You are correct, I don't like the tax fraud. I don't like his family. They'll be in prison when they unveill his income, and how he and his family's earning, And earned it. It's the end for the dummy tRimp. Sooner than soon.
Hello everybody. My grandfather Giuseppe Battista Mucci was a coal miner in Colorado around 1910. LIke many other people from the italian mountains, he came to USA to earn a salary, to feed his poor family in Italy. He escaped the massacre, because he had come back to Europe in time (in time to take part to one of the biggest massacres in XIX century, the world war one).When I was a boy, he used to tell me stories from his living experience. He told me that one day, one of his workmates was hit by a mine trolley. My grandfather and the others could only bring him back to the barrack where they used to sleep and wait till he he died. No medical assistance at all. Battista was really a quiet and polite man. He worked very hard all his life long or a poor salary, but he never complained. But the death of his workmate was really too much to stand.
Thanks for sharing!!! ❤️
I salute your Grandfather ✊ 😭😭❤️❤️
Italian stone cutters....they were valuable to Boulder, Colorado development....look up Boulder Canon where you can still see the pipeline for water was set in stone.......without them...Boulder wouldn't exist....they were the lifeline to water up at Indian Peaks.....
Ps Mike and Joe were from cenjo
The fight between labor and capital continues today. The fight is not over
100%
Labor, big business and government
Honor & glory to our Brothers!!
Eternal memory in our hearts!! to Luis tikas (Helias- Anastasios Spantidakis) a Greek labor leader, and all the fighting labors for the Human-labor Rights!!
Respect man!!! silence & respect!!!
My Dad went to work in the IL Coal mines at 13, the summer after graduating 8th grade. This was 1920 there was plenty of Teenage boys working the mines. My Dad hand drilled and packed the Dynamite charges. Safety and Child labors laws meant nothing. This was after the Cherry Il coal mine disaster of 1909, where 259 men and boys lost there lives. He went passed that closed mine to go to the mine he working in 1920. Nothing changed until the late 1930's, when the Depression eased up. There was alot of Italians recruited to work the C. mines. In fact most of the Ludlow massacre victims were Italians. The stories of Ludlow made it up to Iowa and Illinois through the Italian Grapevine.
"we told the Colorado governor call the president, tell him call off his national guard, but the national guard belonged to the governor, so he didnt try so very hard." - Woody Guthrie
When I worked in refining I’d stop at the Ludlow memorial every time I passed through. Never anyone around every time I stopped. I’d leave a union sticker and say a prayer for the dead. A very powerful place and you could just feel the energy there every time.
Really cool that you have your own version of American Experience based on your state history.
What's your experience, professor?
The triangle shirtwaist company fire was the one that woke up everyone to workers rights. 1911, a few years before this.
There's an excellent video on this, Ma'am.
Ur too right...
Its almost like it took more than one thing to get people to pay attention, interesting
We know this is not being taught in school, so I will teach my school age son about the history of country, and ask him to watch videos like these as a reminder of what the people before us went through for our benefits ! Shameful the way these folks had to deal with these tyrants.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
Company store ? I know that ))) In the former Soviet Union in the 90s, factories and factories paid workers with factory products , and now imagine the salary in macaroni ))) (which still had to be sold to Resellers at a low price ))) ha ha ha the entire house in macaroni ))). That's how we learned in practice what a "company Shop" is, a thing that has been historically forgotten all over the world.
Bless your pea-pickin' heart. ;)
@@spartacusjonesmusic You see, we are people of the 21st century, we do not know the history of the 20s-30s ! A precious story. I am 44 years old from birth and seven years ago I read "Grapes of wrath" by the great (as I believe) American writer John Steinbeck ! And I went mad .. A strong resonance..........Next, you study the history of the class struggle in the United States since 1900 (and from the creation of the first trade unions) and generally wonder why the United States is the most proletarian country ! We have a lot to learn from the us workers ! We, the current ancestors of the former state of "workers and peasants" (that is, the former USSR) . Wherever you look in history, you discover something new and precious ! And when they say to me, "the Soviets didn't win world war II against the Nazis without lend lease," I say, "Oh,Yes, if it weren't for the position of the American labor unions! Those who abandoned the class struggle during the struggle of the "Soviets" against Nazism ! Not a single strike ! Only live help from the "brothers in the class" (no matter how FUNNY IT sounds NOW !) That's how dirty Nazi mouths shut up
My dad used to sing that verse to my brother and I.
Never forget.
High quality productions of recent. Keep it up and thank you for keeping history alive!
mhh.. the Ludlow Massacre was that bad for Rockefellers reputation "Rauber-Barons" but luckly enough Rockefeller met Ivy Lee... is considered by some to be the founder of modern public relations. The term Public Relations is to be found for the first time in the preface of the 1897 Yearbook of Railway Literature.
"In 1914 he was to enter public relations on a much larger scale when he was retained by John D. Rockefeller Jr to represent his family and Standard Oil, ("to burnish the family image"), after the coal mining rebellion in Colorado known as the "Ludlow Massacre". Upton Sinclair dubbed him "Poison Ivy" after Lee tried to send bulletins saying those that died were victims of an overturned stove, when in fact they were shot by the Colorado militia. From then on he faithfully served the Rockefellers and their corporate interests, including a strong involvement in Rockefeller Center - he was in fact the first to suggest to Junior (against his reservations) that he give to the complex his family name - even after he moved on to set up his own consulting firm.
He became an inaugural member of the Council on Foreign Relations in the U.S. when it was established in New York City in 1921." Wikipedia
Even if you clean Rockefellers name, the blood of the past doesn't fade away...
Thank you RMPBS for showing me some more history of Colorado.
Want to know what people did to get the working condictions most people have today. To bad the dumbing down of this country has the coperations pissing on the grave of those who gave all for nothing now it seems.
proofread your post please
Awe poor little Nazi, Can you spell check Go Fuck Yourself?
When your spelling and grammar aren't correct, you take away from your message. I do agree that people were shit on during this time, but things have come ALONG way and rightfully so. The problem today is regulations have go too far. An example of this is the company I work for was fined by MSHA when one of our employees didn't engage the parking brake on a pickup that was in park and had chalks behind and in front of the rear tires.
@@nmelkhunter1 you even edited your post but found it necessary to criticize others SMH
How do you know what the edit was for? Don’t hurt yourself jumping off conclusion cliff.
As a child I grew up within 10 miles of John D. Rockefeller's childhood home in Owasco NY. No one told me he was a beast. As it turns out he was considered the most hated man in the U.S. Eugene O'Neill made not of this in his play "A Moon For The Misbegotten."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Moon_for_the_Misbegotten
This activity by Rockefeller is just part of the reason for that designation.
Today others have taken the place of John D. Rockefeller. The more things change the more things stay the same.
they were not the men who made America, they were the select few who benefited off ok f the backs of others
It appears the Rockefellers and a few other extremely wealthy families who ruled the economy during the Gilded Age were like the royalty of Europe prior to democratization; they felt entitled and their rank and file employees were thought of as a necessary component of extracting wealth for them (basically serfs/indentured servants, slightly better off than slaves) but not worried much about their general welfare.
Tycoons, Organized Crime, and now Corporate Mafia. The time for pleasantries is long gone. This is our country and we have to take it back
The cruel and harsh realities of life. Grazie.
thanks this video was helpful for my project in history
The Rockefellers made America?? I think not. America was a collective effort of countless people contributing what they had. Rockefellers had an advantage that gave them greater responsibility and still ought to. Far be it from us to give credit to a rich man over any who bent their backs over a plow.
I take that claim with a grain of salt 🧂
Keep in mind PBS funded this documentary. So no surprise they made that "Rockefeller" claim.
I’ve been to the Ludlow Memorial. It’s very harrowing.
Indeed, it is.
It was like listening to my grandma who was 16 yrs old and was in Ludlow. My great grandfather took the family into Walsenburg a few days before and they missed being burned to death. The sacrifices that those brave men ,women and children endured during that time is mind blowing. I can't imagine living in the conditions that they did for the rights that we now have because they stood up to the rich. For each one who perished that day my heart breaks. And for the cowards who damaged the monument you are just that cowards who did it in the night so your face can't be seen.
Colorado PBS has excellent CONTENT! I'm hooked. I'm a History Buff, that's why!
Learned a lot today, despite the comments section doing its best to counter that.
Look up the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire. It changed many laws about child labor and safety. I know labor, pro and con.
Ikr
Fr tho the elitists here just mad cause they can't exploit the commoner like they used to..
Great episode.
American elite are always trying to soothe the soul of immigrants history. To the fact they forget who and what they are .And hate on the same struggle… it’s a shame 😢 talk to your kids about more than new iPhones.
Money first people last .
Would have loved to have known this . . . when I was Colorado resident !
That was Rockefeller, right?
Why did the "muck rakers" ever soften on him so suddenly in the end?
Anyone else had ever this PR luck?
Chris Kontennutzer JP Morgan
Professors have every detail correct, because they were there interviewing both sides. We all know who came out on top.
this the type of stuff history channel used to put on back in the days. wild history America
Wow,so sad,but these people laud the ground work for bettering the work force!! How sad it had to become a massacre!! Thank you to all that perished!!
Heartbreaking
...and this my fellow Americans is precisely why the 2nd Amendment is critical in securing our perpetual freedoms and personal security!!!
Amen 🙏
Hard times. Very sad.
My kids great grandmother with Czech immigrant parents was a young girl when this happened... She said her family lived one town over from Ludlow, she knew people who were killed..
It has only taken a century for the Amurikin people to give over the rights these courageous poor fought and died to give us. Maybe it's time for their grandchildren, great grand children to make their struggle matter by restoring the balance between labor and management.
Maybe it is time you learn how to spell American!
Thank You and Magical Miracles 🙏✨️💙
Ahh, Wilson, wasn't he to one the brought us the Fed Reserve in 1913?
Wilson was a horrible person; that demon set black progress back generations. The man hated Catholics, the poor and was a pawn of the rich. Too bad I share last names with that evil bastard...
I live near the Ludlow Massacre site. It's an interesting place.
Is it hunted?
@@ralph5609 ???
@@aa-vk6hd like ghosts and stuff?
@@ralph5609 me and my son are going to ludlow this spring as a family trip.
@@jillthorne5899 cool, hope you'll have fun. Wish you good times 💙
some places didn't even use money, they gave u script which u traded to the store for food,supplies,etc so u never even got cash
My people The Greeks. ❤❤❤
What was CF & I?
My grandfather worked for CF and I kind of
cool to see this
Mary Harris aka Mother Jones visits Colorado 7:44 Trinidad and 22:47 after Ludlow massacre, Rockefeller visited w/ Mother Jones, others; formed company union
Americans have become labor slaves all over again. Back in the day a woman had a choice to remain in the home raising her children, No longer. It takes 2 full time jobs just to be middle class. I have yet to meet one average working class mother who doesn't hate having to sacrifice raising her children to be in the work place. Now we have social media raising our children who are turning out to be empathyless narcissist. Also back in the day heart disease was a man's disease because of work related stress but now woman surpass men in heart disease. Labor slavery!
The human Desires, vs needs, drives people to attempt varying deeds, including crime. Deeds considered extreme by some cultures.
With near 1/2 the US population non-productive, majority of children in schools today no longer living within a traditional family structure, the slack is taken up [taxes funded] by those with traditional motivation, focus.... and faith.
The 'land of plenty' attracts the world. If there were no 'ever increasing, automatic funding' for the perpetually dependency addicted, in essence the very real possibility of non-survival, there would be no need for a 'wall'... No need for borders.
The problem with USA.. far too attractive, too prosperous, with individual Freedoms non-existent around the world.
There are influential 'Globalists' politicians today, working feverishly while obtaining their own wealth, attempting to level the field.. drag down the USA.. leveling the field... :(
Unions came about solely for the protection of the workers as they had no other form of advocate, surly not the government that at the time believed in very limited involvement in the live of its citizens. The great strides the union made in the lives of its members allowed them to prosper and their families to grow and become educated as much as they wanted to. Somewhere in the 1960's though established unions like the UMWA or the UAW & the Teamsters seemed to be more involved in justifying their own existence over protecting the rank and file. Part of this had to do with federal health and safety laws that took over the protection of the workers from the unions to the point all they were concerned about was more money and that was what strikes at mines & businesses were grounded in and that in itself led to the general public's lack of support for the unions because they were seen as greedy.
Unions may have served a purpose but now working men and women have no need of them, they bring greed and corruption and organized crime into the trades, stealing from both working man and boss alike simply to line their pockets. Try and organize a union on the sites I've worked on and you'll end up with a hammer in your skull at the bottom of a lot of concrete from a really pissed off worker who wasnt gonna let you spead that cancer.
@@jordanhicks5131 So what ? All companies are such beautiful cats ?! They don't steal from your work pocket ? Oh, come on ! I'll never believe it ! Little by little, the companies will press down on workers ' rights and get into the pocket of the worker, if there is no rebuff in the form of a strike or a trade Union. Capitalism is a real thing as long as there is capitalism there will be a need for trade unions. As long as there are Federal laws, there will be those who want to break them and make money on it. So don't bury the unions !
My grandfathers worked in CFI mines all over southern Colorado, and my cousin who passed away several years ago, was the last survivor of the Ludlow massacre. She was 11 months old at the time, much more fortunate than her neighbors.
Why am I getting suggestions of Colorado PBS videos by RUclips? I'm from Michigan.
Blast from the past!
The powers that be are just itching to revert to these times. They've almost succeeded.
-Oh yes, the cradle to grave, taxPayer subsidized Somalians in Minnesota, are so enslaved they can barely survive their days and nights at [RUclips's] 'Mall of Somalia'... in Minnesota..
What have labor unions become?
@@Blogengezer Go back to Breitbart. You'd probably feel more intellectually at home there. Racist.
@@hayden8491 Import the third world, become the third world.
CF and I : Colorado Fuel and Iron
Had the mining companies killed my friends and family I'd have done the same thing
Amazons new "company towns" anyone?
How were the companies?
Once the unions are gone., it will surely go back to this. Right to work state and banned guns., it leads us to this...
Defenseless, darn millenials think they can fight without guns...
Labor unions are nothing but what these people fought against.
Unions are thieves who steal from the pocket of the working man. You start talking that shit on my crew and you'll be found with a hammer in your head after taking a tumble out of the 60 foot boom lift. Unions served their purpose, now they are avenues for socialist/leftist corruption and organized crime to worm it's way into the trades. They steal from the working man and from the contractors alike, they are organizations of greed who do nothing but serve themselves to your hard earned money
Union power and membership has declined in power and number since the 70s and wages have decreased accordingly.
Strike for what? Hell no. Higher salaries, better health benefits, retirement plan, for ALL the coal miners who walk away from coal and help establish solar and wind power. UMWA absolutely has to help miners make the transition from coal to solar and wind. YES WE CAN!
Your sister said she would.
Cheerio.
Join a Union, support a Union.
Please
Women and childeren are always the target in any disaster. We suffer so much in the hands of men!
Usually "collateral damage", as they like to say.
men suffers more in hands of men.
But other men die while trying to protect women and children
Wow, okay, I remember the Mother Jones magazine, because I was living in Santa Cruz California @ the time it was founded.
Now after all this time I'm connecting to the real woman Mary Harris .
THANK YOU!
I'm glad to see that this history will NEVER be forgotten.With eleven children dead you have to wonder how low trash like the guards, National guards/ Militia, the governor all lived with themselves afterwards.
Stand strong FOR democracy ,not oligarchy
what i dont get is this...why do they always portray people as being so dang stupid?? like they didnt know how to live unless someone else "showed them how" what?? lol thats ridiculous
My deepest gratitude for keep bringing force & exposing - the truth, & for keeping alive all our history of us all & our collective & single one past of such really & truly fundamental - detrimentally crucial importance memories.
I only just wish to & truly must do make this one significant clarifying correction in some definition wording & words used by this man Dr. W. J. Convert, who says, that the mining-owners (supposedly) saw this strike as: “AN ATTACK ON & TO THEIRS RIGHT(S) TO & OF THEIR PRIVATE PROPERTY”. Well, that may be so, but in all our real true life world reality of all people & things THE REAL TRUE MAIN REASON & CAUSE of & for this very strike as is for the rest of them are truly the endless & such the numerous - all working men strikes against their employers - IT IS ALWAYS & IT IS ONLY FOR &OR BECAUSE OF THEIRS ALL SUCH ONE & ALL THE SAME VERY REASON of all theirs such much far too beyond it all -too harsh or hard or unfair but their real mis- & far too horrific treatments of theirs one for all & such “self-righteous” imperial-feudalist dead-stead-convinced superiority’s over the rest & above all the others, theirs such much too despicable gross selfishness-sickness & disease of self-indulgence fuels all of theirs really border-less size-less & limit-less mega cosmic proportions mass gluttony their evil black-holed greed breeds real-life-nightmare monsters with the slave-owners out-look on of individual & theirs world & humanity slave owner view - is beyond in- un- & non-humane but is one - predatory-parasite’ mentality.
And that is the REAL TRUTH & TRUE FACT. Thus, let us ALL, then, but do call IT as & for WHAT ALL OF IT REALLY & EXACTLY IS....
without any such two-faced “diplomacies” & double-speaking pretentiousness & out-right lying in & for the sake of “political or & social correctness” of “sugar-coating” keeping on “beating around the bushes”.
St. Peter doncha call me cause ah can’t go...Ah owe ma soul to the company store!
2:15 Program begins
Why is Colorado the hands down worst state for a man to get divorced?
Laws and judges here are a absolute joke!
Because it's run by liberal democrat crooks with a hundred ways to collect everything and their paycheck to boot?
Troy Gerrard No one should ever get married. It’s a terrible thing!
Colorado was a marvelously beautiful, attractive state. Then it became Californicated.
@@Blogengezer that's sad that it caved in like California
13:01 The Greek revolution against the Ottoman empire happened in 1821.
There is no way that someone could had fight in that war and still be alive in 1913
This is partly correct. The Greek revolution occurred in 1821 but only a quarter of recent Greece was liberated. For example my area Epirus was not liberated until 1912 and till then two uprisings were done until liberation. Louis Tikas homeland, the island of Crete was liberated around 1900 and till then many uprisings were done. So the comment is correct. The greek miners were experienced in warfare. Actually when the greco-turkish war of 1912 occurred hundreds of greek American volunteers returned to Greece to fight and they were back a year later, just a little before ludlow massacre...
@@odysseasntalias5950 Οδυσσέα, αν μιλάς Ελληνικά, έχεις δίκιο.
Απλά, το είχα ξεχάσει ότι δεν είχε ελευθερωθεί όλη η Ελλάδα το 1821
Μιλαω ελληνικά. Είμαι από την Αρτα. Ζω κι εργάζομαι στα Γιάννενα. Χάρηκα που τα παμε!
@@odysseasntalias5950 Εγώ είμαι από την Αθήνα,
και χάρηκα κι εγώ, επίσης
A mule had more status than a human?
@@deltalou8987 -Family works their mules on high country Colorado ranch. More sure footed in mountains, carry heavier loads on stronger bones, not fussy eaters and tire less easily. Horses are for parades :)
My Grandfather worked these mines and he would tell me the mules in the lower workings lived their entire life underground because it was to hard to bring them back up the shaft . When he was a boy he would sit at the bottom of the shaft in the dark because candles were to expensive and wait for the mules pulling the oar carts to send them topside to be emptied .
Capitalistic slavery. UNITE & FIGHT BACK!
filippos this piece of land that I stand on is my Battlefield and my home ill defend it with my life if it be . many people have fought and died so we can be here side by side. all you fascists bound to lose
We all belong to the land and came from the Earth. We'll soon return there. The land doesn't belong to anyone.
UNITE & FIGHT BACK against slavery. People are born free and should remain free until the land take us back to it's hands.
Fascism is the ideology of the slaves. I'm a free man and want others to be free.
@ the only idiot here is you
Where I stand is MINE and I'll fight for it Under the right conditions it pays me CAPITAL to own it, try to take it and there will be blood spilled on it.
This was in the past not the present. Simmer down.
Just recommending a very good novel (two more coming!) about this time in CO- Red Winged Blackbird, by Bob Reed. Check it out, I thoroughly enjoyed it
I wonder, where are the American Unions today?
Make America Great Again
The two Unions I worked for in my life so far existed for the Union Officers and their cronies.
That's ALL they exist for! That and to serve the needs of organized crime
my government professor called this a short video, it is 28 minutes
In a perverse way, this episode proves that racism in NOT at the core of the American Experience. It does so by showing that the property-owning class is willing and able to slaughter WORKERS of ANY race, creed, or religion!
Right, it is Peonage.
Think forward green
Bobart represents ,exactly what intrests for self or colorado
Whenever i hear "Less government" i remember about stuff like this.
And why is more government better?
@@vincentgiasullo exactly lol
@@mar25947 people like the individual who made this comment want the government to be involved in every aspect of our lives when they’ve proven time and time again regardless of party (more Democrat then Republican) that they can’t be trusted. I am tho a believer in modern labor laws and maybe even advancing some of them depending on what the subject is.
Join a Union and lets make Walmart Unionize
-Then it would charge top prices.... that only union members could afford...
@@Blogengezer yet target pays better and their prices are not outrages...
Nobody Knows They are not required to pay them a “living” wage. They are required to pay them a basic wage. Low skill work that anyone can do results in pay that is low. Go to school and get a degree and you can earn a “living” wage. Quit forcing companies to pay something they are not required to pay for. Want to get more money, find a better job!
@@anthonyrazzano787 if the company is unable to pay a living wage and the workers have to be on public aid( housing, WIC, food stamps, and Medicaid) then said company should pay higher taxes for causing the rising need for government assistance in the community. But Walmart, Amazon and target all have lawyers to find loopholes to get out of paying the correct amount of taxes. I can’t afford to pay for my sons college and with your fucked up logic he isn’t worth a living wage or healthcare.
Just driving past this
Down with capitalism! Organise!
The Absurd Your name says it all! What an ABSURD idea!
socialism is just as bad or worse. check your history.
I’m down. Viva la revolution!!!!
Up with unions, fair pay, fair working conditions, worker coops, and freemarket socialism!
When a governor/tyrant orders his well-regulated militia to stop a workers strike...
I pray colorado will see thru bobbert
Rockefeller
Wrong we are back to a time when we need to bring back the slogan remember Ludlow!
This is now, who defines ,profit over people,YOU THE VOTER
Too bad that they didn't get Rockefeller.
Have we ever been able to "progress" without all the blood and loss of life?
Nope, the selfish greed gets in power, monopolize, and basically pull a Walmart
I found it!
colorado is a police state
Follow the yellow brick road yet and still.
my ancestors were brought into Colorado to break the Ludlow strike....they were austrians/ukranians....recruited in NYC....I am sure they had NO clue of the fight at Ludlow....they didn't speak english.....they were "played" by the mining companies...and I had a great uncle who died at a mining accident somewhere in the Lousiville/Erie area....we have NO clue....his life was NOT important and no records exist.......may the mine owners rot in h*ll for what they did to immigrant families just trying to make a living....feed their children....
If it wasn't for workers fighting (and dying) for fair pay, fair working hours, and safe working conditions most of us would be living in a company town earning scrip. Hurrah for socialist initiatives! 🎉
This is the corporate america in 2021 mr guvmint sen manchin
A lot of salty slavers and authoritarians in the comments lol. 😆
...best union 🇺🇸
rights in amerika?? dont make me laugh
Bernie is a great candidate to change things up for the betterment of America and the worker's. I think we're going to have a great man. Bernie would make great changes, and STILL ARE HERE for the better. You can think about it, but, I want you to think of what would be bad? Can't get anyone worse than Don. Bernie is for change for the better. Bidens going to be a strong president, but I see the status quote from his administration. Very comfy. My opinion, change is good! Run, BERNIE, BEAT ALL CHALLENGERS, AND BE OUR PRESIDENT!.
@matt s Are you happy with his disregard of our Constitution. Remember Trump's words, The so called phoney Constition. And yes, I have hated him for many years. I saw the horse's arse on Tom Snyder in 1978. Knew he was an idiot, and a con man. and tasteless as he's now.. You can say what you want. He's 6 pussy. I would have loved playing him in any sport when I was younger. This guy has no clue. That's why I don't like him. He's beyond a rotten president. I will be so happy, but I realize the stupid people voting for the DICTATOR tRump. I think he is a traitor. You are correct, I don't like the tax fraud. I don't like his family. They'll be in prison when they unveill his income, and how he and his family's earning, And earned it. It's the end for the dummy tRimp. Sooner than soon.
and now we have proposed "smart cities"
Unions ae the reason why prices are so high from homes to popcorn.
***** TheCaptainSlappy