A new group becomes militant. May 15, 1893. The Western Federation of Miners (WFM) is formed. It's in direct response to a labor action in Coeur...
Labor Goes to War
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A Bad Summer Day June 1904 proved to be violent in Colorado.
June 6, 1904 was a bloody day in Colorado. A union assassin blew up a train depot near Cripple Creek; 13 men were killed. Then the two sides in...
A Target on His Back Union assassins tried to kill Colorado’s governor.
Colorado Governor James Peabody was a target—literally—during the labor wars that wracked that state in the early 1900s. Leaders of the Western...