The cover of the socialist magazine The Masses depicts striker William Snyder, whose twelve-year-old son Frank had been killed in the gunfire. The events at the Ludlow tent colony shocked people around the world, as this graphic illustration captures. Many Marxists believed that the Colorado Coalfield Strike was the first event in a civil war that would ultimately end in the overthrow of the United States government and the implementation of a new socialist order. | Source: Sloan, John, from the Library of Congress. “Massacre during Colorado Coal Strike at Ludlow, Colorado,” available at https://www.loc.gov/item/2016652761/.Download Original File
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Sloan, John, from the Library of Congress. “Massacre during Colorado Coal Strike at Ludlow, Colorado,” available at https://www.loc.gov/item/2016652761/.
