Histoire - États-Unis - 1917 - Le massacre de Ludlow

Histoire des États-Unis - 1917 - Le massacre de Ludlow

«In Ludlow, Colorado, in 1917, workers (mostly Italians, Greeks, and Slavs) walked out of coal mines owned by John D. Rockefeller.  Joined by their wives and daughters, they continued the strike even after they had been evicted from company housing and had moved into hastily erected tents.  The state militia was called into the town to protect the mines, but in fact (as was often the case in labor actions), it actually worked to help employers defeat the strikers.  Joined by strikebreakers and others, the militia attacked the workers' tent colony; and after the battle that followed, 39 people died, among them eleven children.  The episode became known as the Ludlow Massacre.»

[Page 635 - «American History - A Survey» Volume II : Since 1865 - Alan Brinkley, McGraw-Hill, Inc., 9th Edition, New York, etc., 1991-1995]

Un autre manuel d'histoire des États-Unis est «A People's history of the United States», de l'historien Howard Zinn, anarchiste, livre maintenant traduit en français