Hellraisers Journal: U. M. W. establishes fund “to build a monument to our martyred dead, on the field of Ludlow.”

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Quote re Ludlow Monument, UMWJ June 21, 1917

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Hellraisers Journal, Friday June 22, 1917
United Mine Workers of America to Honor Ludlow Martyrs

From the United Mine Workers Journal of June 21, 1917:

The Ludlow Monument
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Ludlow Massacre by Morris Hall Pancoast, Masses, June 1914

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While it is fully recognized that there would be only words of commendation if the International Executive Board had appropriated sufficient money to build a monument to our martyred dead, on the field of Ludlow, there is a sentimental value in the recommendation adopted instead that, no doubt, will be appreciated by the membership.

We wish to perpetuate the memory of those who died that the organization might live in Colorado and in the entire country.

Let us place that memorial upon every minute book of every local in the jurisdiction of the miners’ union. In subscribing a small sum to be expended in the erection of a fitting monument we recognize anew the bitter cost some were called upon to pay.

So many of us have fallen heir to the benefits that are derived from unionism. We have never learned to appreciate the cost of its up building and some of us may hold them lightly, and even so, the organization gained with sacrifice, struggle and pain, even unto death.

In subscribing our mite toward the perpetuation of the memory of those who made the final great sacrifice, let us dedicate ourselves anew to the purpose of maintaining the principles of our great movement for the elevation of our kind. Let us so devote ourselves to the principles of our organization; to its extension into the fields where men are still bound down because of their ignorance of the great benefits that come with intelligent organization, that these, the martyrs of Ludlow, of Virden, and of a thousand other unnamed fields of sacrifice, shall not have died in vain.

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[Drawing by Morris Hall Pancoast added.]

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SOURCE

The United Mine Workers Journal, Volume 28
(Indianapolis, Indiana)
May 3, 1917 to Oct 25, 1917
https://books.google.com/books?id=3wpOAAAAYAAJ
UMWJ June 21, 1917
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=3wpOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PT102
“The Ludlow Monument”
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=3wpOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PT105

IMAGES
Ludlow Massacre by Morris Hall Pancoast, Masses, June 1914
http://dlib.nyu.edu/themasses/books/masses039/6
Ludlow Monument & Detail of Inscription
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Monument
From Back of Ludlow Monument: The Names of Our Martyrs
https://www.du.edu/ludlow/working.html

See also:

UMWA Executive Board per UMWJ of June 21, 1917:
https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=3wpOAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&pg=GBS.PT104

Hellraisers Journal, Monday April 23, 1917
Ludlow, Colorado – John R Lawson Speaks at Memorial for Martyrs
40 Acres at Site of Ludlow Massacre Dedicated by UMWA as Thousands Gather to Honor Martyrs

Ludlow Monument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Monument

Ludlow Tent Colony Site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Tent_Colony_Site

National Historic Landmark Nomination
https://www.nps.gov/archeology/months/NP_NHL_Nomination_Ludlow.pdf

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The Ludlow Monument

Ludlow Monument, wiki

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WE NEVER FORGET

Ludlow Monument, Inscription

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“The Men, Women and Children
Who Lost Their Lives in Freedom Cause”

Ludlow Monument Names

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The Union Forever – «Colorado Strike Song»,
-από το μουσικό σχήμα «Ρωμιοσύνη»

Colorado Strike Song – John McCutcheon

Mary Elaine Petrucci speaks at Ludlow Memorial

Song of Mary Petrucci at Ludlow – Tom Breiding