The great coalfield war - Hardcover

McGovern, George S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395136490 ISBN 13: 9780395136492

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin, 1972

Synopsis

The classic study of one of America's most violent labor struggles.

"The effect of this work is simply enraging, for the reality that the documentation evokes, both of wickedness and of the suffering that wickedness caused, is intolerable". -- The New Yorker

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From the Back Cover:

It was the most violent and highly significant battle of organized labor in the United States. That lengthy struggle in Ludlow, Colorado, pitted thousands of immigrant miners - largely from Eastern Europe - against absentee company operators who controlled the coal mines of southern Colorado in the early twentieth century. The largest coal company was the Pueblo-based Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, with John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as its chief director. Now in paperback, The Great Coalfield War is the most complete and carefully documented account of the more-than-year-long strike by the United Mineworkers' Union to gain recognition from stubborn anti-union operators who were joined by political, judicial, media, law enforcement, and other powerful interests in the Colorado industrial establishment. The bravery, hardship, and deaths suffered by the miners and their families moved millions of Americans to unprecedented sympathy for the efforts of organized labor and led President Wilson to order federal troops to restore law and order. Though action shifted to Washington and a congressional investigation, it would take years before Colorado's coal miners gained union protection.

About the Author:

George S McGovern, former US senator from South Dakota, was the Democratic party candidate in the 1972 presidential election. Leonard F Guttridge is a writer whose most recent work has specialised in US naval history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Publication date: 1972
• ISBN 10: 0395136490
• ISBN 13: 9780395136492
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383