Miners Strike Leadville CO Discussing the Situation Pack Mules Stereoview c1896

Description: Miners Strike Leadville CO Discussing the Situation Pack Mules Stereoview c1896 Real Photo Stereoview Miners Strike Leadville CO Discussing the Situation Pack Mules ready to work Stereoview c1896. The Strike was over 50 center per day. The strike of the miners in the Leadville district has passed into history. It was one of the longest and most bitterly contested battles ever fought between organized labor and organized capital. Beginning June 19th, 1896, and continuing until March 9th, 1897, the strike extended over a period of eight months and 18 days. It is a trite declaration that a strike is a war. This is more or less true of all strikes, but it applies with peculiar force to the prolonged strike of the Leadville miners. It was, indeed, war and both sides so regarded it and made preparations accordingly. At the time of the strike there were about 2,600 members in the local union, or about 97 percent of all the miners employed in the district. It will thus be observed that the miners were what may be called thoroughly organized, they stood together, true to their organization, and only an insignificant number returned to work while the strike was in progress. Having been upon the ground and having had the opportunity of meeting and talking with these men, I speak advisedly when I say that they were impelled by pure and honest motives and that they conscientiously believed they were in the right, and this no doubt accounts for the facts that there were scarcely any deserters from the ranks and that the strike lasted so long a time. What was the cause of the strike and were the men justified in declaring it? Under the head of “Grievances Before the Strike,” the report says: It is in evidence that for some time, at least several months, before the strike was declared, the miners complained that a miner and his family could not live on $2.50 a day unless he worked every day, including Sundays, and that even then he would run in debt in case of sickness in his family or other temporary misfortunes and that these complaints were communicated to the mine managers from time to time in an informal way and the suggestion made that the scale be raised to $3 per day. Condition - Good - Very Good Please See our other views. We do combine shipping. Listing and template services provided by inkFrog

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