The National Guard Murdered Children
American History Of Violence Against Labor
The National Guard Murdered Children
American History Of Violence Against Labor
When the ruling class feels threatened, they will unleash the full weight of the state to protect their profit margins. It doesn’t matter if you’re a foreign government, a peasant uprising, or a group of coal-stained immigrants living in a tent camp; they will send in guns. They will send in soldiers, and they will sleep just fine at night if your children burn alive in the process.
That’s exactly what happened in Ludlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914, when the Colorado National Guard, under orders from the coal barons (and with Rockefeller money in their pockets), opened fire on a tent colony of striking miners. The stated goal was to crush the strike. The result was dozens dead, including at least 11 children who suffocated and burned in pits dug under their tents as protection from bullets. They called it a “battle”, but in reality, it was a state-sanctioned massacre.