As Big Mick says, the 1913 Massacre at Calumet, MI, and the Ludlow Massacre in CO were two different events. They have in common at least 4 things: 1. Both involved labor unions and mines, 2. Both happened around the same time (1913-14), 3. Both involved the deaths of many women and children and, 4. Both were subjects of songs by Woody Guthrie. His song about the Ludlow Massacre apparently never achieved great popularity. I had never heard of it until now, and I had not seen a published version. Woody wrote it in the 1st person, as though he was actually there, but I've seen nothing to indicate that he was present. I visited Ludlow once a few years ago. Ludlow is pretty much a ghost town now, north of Trinidad in Las Animas Co. in SE Colorado. The story is tragic but very little known. Details can be found on Wikipedia, which is where I discovered these lyrics:

Ludlow Massacre

It was early springtime when the strike was on,
They drove us miners out of doors,
Out from the houses that the Company owned,
We moved into tents up at old Ludlow.

I was worried bad about my children,
Soldiers guarding the railroad bridge,
Every once in a while a bullet would fly,
Kick up gravel under my feet.

We were so afraid you would kill our children,
We dug us a cave that was seven foot deep,
Carried our young ones and pregnant women
Down inside the cave to sleep.

That very night your soldiers waited,
Until all us miners were asleep,
You snuck around our little tent town,
Soaked our tents with your kerosene.

You struck a match and in the blaze that started,
You pulled the triggers of your gatling guns,
I made a run for the children but the fire wall stopped me.
Thirteen children died from your guns.

I carried my blanket to a wire fence corner,
Watched the fire till the blaze died down,
I helped some people drag their belongings,
While your bullets killed us all around.

I never will forget the look on the faces
Of the men and women that awful day,
When we stood around to preach their funerals,
And lay the corpses of the dead away.

We told the Colorado Governor to call the President,
Tell him to call off his National Guard,
But the National Guard belonged to the Governor,
So he didn't try so very hard.

Our women from Trinidad they hauled some potatoes,
Up to Walsenburg in a little cart,
They sold their potatoes and brought some guns back,
And they put a gun in every hand.

The state soldiers jumped us in a wire fence corners,
They did not know we had these guns,
And the Red-neck Miners mowed down these troopers,
You should have seen those poor boys run.

We took some cement and walled that cave up,
Where you killed these thirteen children inside,
I said, "God bless the Mine Workers' Union,"
And then I hung my head and cried.

One thing I'm curious about. In "The Woody Guthrie Songbook" most of the songs have a copywrite credit to LUDLOW MUSIC, INC. Is there any connection between the name of the music company and the events at Ludlow, CO?

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