Western Federation of Miners
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The Western Federation of Miners was a labor union that gained a reputation for militancy in the mines of the western United States and British Columbia. Its efforts to organize both hard rock miners
Famous Western Federation of Miners flyer entitled "Is Colorado in America?"
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
Western Federation of Miners
…One of the most dramatic of these struggles occurred in the Cripple Creek district of Colorado in 1903–1904; the conflicts were thus dubbed the Colorado Labor Wars. The WFM also played a key role in the founding of the Industrial Workers of the World in 1905 but left that organization several years later. The WFM…
"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.