Fetch Your Copy Slaughter In Serene: The Columbine Coal Strike Reader Composed By Lowell May Available In Manuscript

was great. a collection of essays all on the same event a coal strike organized by the IWW in colorado where peaceful strikers were gunned down by state police, so there tends to be repetition of the basic details again and again, which can get tedious.


still, each essay has its strengths and fills in the gaps left by each other essay, especially enjoyed richard myers's section on women's militant action in the coal strikes, definitely an era of american history i don't know a lot about, from a perspective they certainly don't teach in public schools.
This is a good book for anyone interested in the topic of the Columbine Mine massacre or in the Colorado coal strikes.
There are several essays by different authors, accompanied by photos and newspaper headlines, Some of the information is repetitive from essay to essay, but the book as a whole gives an indepth picture of the general working conditions that led to the strike, how the IWW gained support in Colorado so quickly, the events on the day before and the day of the massacre, and how the event was covered by the antiunion media and explained away by the Colorado Governor/.


The book includes photos of Serene, the company town where the Columbine Mine was located, Since I can look out my window and see where the town of Serene used to be, it's fascinating to see the miners' housing and the small town that no longer exists.
The state of Colorado deployed machine guns, bomber aircraft, and cannons to control the miners, Their we have the authority and the power you, the outofcontrol workers, must submit, But the workers were not just any workers, These were miners, men who descended on a rickety cage into the dark maw of hell every workday of their lives.
They worked with blasting powder they fought with coal car mules, They waded through black water floods they chiseled a living from the depths, How can you intimidate a man who faces death daily But the strikers had another surprise, another front that would not be intimidated.
The women of thes coal camps became the miners most valuable allies, Slaughter in the Columbine Coal Strike Reader uncovers a history that had nearly been forgotten, It is a history of triumph and tragedy, of working class dreams and rapacious corporate greed, Eric Margolis, Joanna Sampson, Phil Goodstein and Richard Myers! present a compelling history of thecoal strike led by the Industrial Workers of the World.
This was the first strike in which Colorado miners were not defeated utterly, This was the last strike in which a

state militia played their dubious role, Sadly, it was just one of a number of strikes in which miners and their families confronted violence perpetrated by the power of the state.
A wonderful slice of oral history from below, copiously illustrated with original photographs, and extracts from IWW and not so sympathetic papers.