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Colorado Fuel and Iron Company: Last Specimen Stock

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Mining Start Price:75.00 USD Estimated At:150.00 - 300.00 USD
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company: Last Specimen Stock
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Pristine specimen stock stands by itself. Bu the history of this company is also fabulous. By 1903, it was largely owned and controlled by John D. Rockefeller and Jay Gould and their heirs. While it came to control many plants throughout the country, its main plant was a steel mill on the south side of Pueblo, Colorado and was the city's main industry for most of its history. CF&I's early labor relations were set in the context of the volatile and violent Colorado Labor Wars. Striking miners were forced to abandon their homes in company towns and lived in tent cities erected by the union such as the tent city at Ludlow. On April 20, 1914 a general fire-fight occurred between strikers and troops. The camp burned, and 15 women and children in the camp were burned to death. The casualties suffered at Ludlow were successfully labeled a massacre and mobilized public opinion against the Rockefellers and the coal industry.

City: Pueblo
State: Colorado
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HWAC#: : 33049