Labor Photo: May Day at the Ludlow Massacre Monument

(Metropolitan Washington Council, AFL-CIO)

While on a family trip to Colorado last weekend, Union City Managing Editor Chris Garlock (l) and his labor historian dad Jon (r) visited the Ludlow Massacre Monument on May Day. Nineteen people – mostly women and children – were killed during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow on April 20, 1914. Historian Howard Zinn has described the Ludlow Massacre as "the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history." - photo by Shem Garlock