Event
Colorado coal strike of 1913–14
Strike of southern Colorado coal miners against the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company and other operators, with armed clashes through the winter and spring of 1914.
- Dates
- Sep 1913 – Dec 1914
- Also known as
- Colorado Coalfield War
- Wikidata
- Q5148759
Connections 5
involved
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. director and part-owner of the struck company; wrote to its chairman Primary record 1
- Colorado Fuel & Iron Company struck company; its chairman reported the bankers' backing for the militia Primary record 1
- Colorado National Guard militia on duty in the strike zone Primary record 2
- Commission on Industrial Relations four commissioners placed responsibility on both Rockefellers Primary record 3
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. criticized in the House committee report Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- Sep 1913 – Dec 1914 Colorado coal strike of 1913–14
Proof 3 sources
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Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Vol. IX (Colorado strike, foundations and industrial control; testimony of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr.), U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (scan via Internet Archive), 1916.
Primary record
Whatever the outcome may be, we will stand by you to the end.
You are fighting a good fight
agreeing to back the State and lend it all the funds necessary to maintain the militia
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Report on the Colorado Strike Investigation made under House Resolution 387, Sixty-third Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Mines and Mining (scan via Internet Archive), 2 Mar 1915.
Primary record
It seemed the militia was on the side of the operators in this controversy, and the evidence seems conclusively to prove such to have been the case.
He was obstinate and the statement that he was fighting for liberty for the workingman will not bear investigation.
Mr. Rockefeller is a long-distance director, not having attended a meeting of the stockholders or directors of the company in 10 years.
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Final Report of the Commission on Industrial Relations, including the Report of Basil M. Manly, Director of Research and Investigation, and the individual reports and statements of the several Commissioners (Senate Document 415, 64th Congress), U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (scan via Internet Archive), 1916.
Primary record
the final and full responsibility for the refusal to confer with said representatives, and for all the deplorable results which followed such refusal, must be
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