Organization

Colorado National Guard

State militia of Colorado, on duty in the southern coal fields in 1913–14.

5 links, 5 backed by primary records. 3 more in open data

Connections 5

Colorado coal strike of 1913–14 militia on duty in the strike zone Primary record 2
Ludlow, 20 April 1914 soldiers and others who spread the fire, in the board's finding Primary record 1
Ludlow, 20 April 1914 detachment on duty at Ludlow Primary record 1

Proof 2 sources

Ludlow: report of the special board of officers appointed by the Governor of Colorado to investigate the armed conflict at Ludlow, April 20, 1914, Adjutant General’s Office, State of Colorado (scan via Internet Archive), 1914. Primary record
Lieutenant K. E. Linderfelt
Men and soldiers swarmed into the colony and deliberately assisted the conflagration by spreading the fire from tent to tent
cans of oil found in the tents were poured upon them
Four days later the country was startled by the happening of a deadly conflict between this detachment and the inhabitants of the strikers' tent colony at Ludlow.
all of the troops of the Colorado National Guard engaged in the occupation of the strike zone were withdrawn except a small detachment left upon police duty at Ludlow.
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.

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