Colorado Labor Wars
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The Colorado Labor Wars were a series of labor strikes in 1903 and 1904 in the U.S. state of Colorado, by gold and silver miners and mill workers represented by the Western Federation of Miners. Oppos
"Victor, Colorado, The Scene Of The Rioting Of June 6th", c. 1904.
Pinkerton Detective Agency detective James McParland, seen here some time in the 1880s.
The "Last Dollar" and other mines, Independence, Colorado, c. 1904.
View of Cripple Creek, c. 1900.
Anti-union violence in the United States entails physical harm done to trade union officials, organizers, members, sympathizers, or their families, in the United States. It has most commonly been used
Massachusetts militiamen with fixed bayonets surround a group of strikers during the Lawrence, Massachusetts Textile Strike of 1912
Union organizer Frank Little was pulled from his bed and lynched in 1917 because of his union activities.
Striking Pennsylvania mine workers began their protest march near Harwood. Many would soon be killed by the Luzerne County sheriff.
Machine gun equipped armored car built with steel from CF&I's Pueblo steel works, known to the striking miners as the Death Special. "The machine gun was turned on striking miners and used to riddle the Forbes tent colony."