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The Great Coalfield War
GEORGE S. McGOVERN and LEONARD F. GUTTRIDGE
ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS AND WITH MAPS BY SAMUEL H. BRYANT
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF COLORADO
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Copyright 1996, 1972 by George S. McGovern and Leonard F. Guttridge
Published by the University Press of Colorado
P.O. Box 849 Niwot, Colorado 80544
First published by Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, Massachusetts
All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
The University Press of Colorado is a cooperative publishing enterprise supported, in part, by Adams State College, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, Mesa State College, Metropolitan State College of Denver, University of Colorado, University of Northern Colorado, University of Southern Colorado, and Western State College of Colorado.
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.481984
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
McGovern, George S. (George Stanley), 1922
The great coalfield war / George S. McGovern and Leonard F. Guttridge. p. cm. Originally published: Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87081-381-1 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Coal Strike, Colo., 19131914. I. Guttridge, Leonard F. II. Title. HD5325.M63 1913.C853 1996 331.89'2822334'0978851 dc20 96-5124 CIP
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To the American Coal Miner
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The Ludlow Station Area
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Contents
PREFACE
xi
1 THE COAL BARONS' DOMAIN
1
2 LIFE AND DEATH IN THE PROPERTIES
19
3 LABOR TAKES THE OFFENSIVE
36
4 BIBLE CLASS AND DUSTY SEPULCHERS
53
5 THE OPERATORS RESIST
71
6 "THE BATTLE CRY OF UNION"
92
7 CALIBAN MUST LEARN SOMETHING
107
8 A TUMULT THREATENED
120
9 MARTIAL LAW?
135
10 FEDERAL INTERVENTION
149
11 SABERS ON MAIN STREET
166
12 CONGRESS INVESTIGATES
177
13 THE TERRIBLE ARBITRAMENT
194
14 LUDLOW
210
15 CANYONS OF STRIFE
232
16 A DILEMMA FOR THE PRESIDENT
250
17 POST-MORTEMS, PLOTS, AND PUBLICITY
269
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18 THE CANADIAN
293
19 THE COMMISSION
312
20 THE BLOODSTAINED LESSON
333
SOURCES AND ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
351
BIBLIOGRAPHY
357
INDEX
369
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Illustrations
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United Mine Workers' leaders Frank Hayes and Ed Doyle, 1915
John Lawson, Mother Jones, the aggressive matriarch of the miners' union, and Horace Hawkins, United Mine Workers' attorney
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