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Wed Jul 9 01:05:35 CDT 2008

I'm not getting through?  Trying again.

This is the rest of that section through the end of Ludlow.  The  
April 20th, 1914 and fighting in the Ludlow tent camp breaks out at  
about 10 am.  (Song lyrics at the end of this.)

The personal account of Victor Bazanele, an 84 year old (in 1976)   
miner from Austria (from an interview)
with quite a few photos -
: http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepageexp.htm

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Frank sees a face from past -
narrow hat,  high forehead mouth in a slit - a lizard's face - not a  
nickle's worth of mercy
(his photo does look like that):
It's probably K.J.  Linderfelt - Lieutenant in National Guard
http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image015a.gif
Jesse comes in with a Winchester repeater- he tried to cut RR lines   
but ran out of bullets

Introductions of Frank to Jesse
(are these names redolent or maybe even allusionary somehow of the  
wild west world of Frank and Jesse James?

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Frank shows Jessie his old Krag  with trapdoor  -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.30-40_Krag

(Frank and Jesse?  As in James?)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0109835/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_James

Frank plans for Jesse and Stray to escape through the arroyo because  
it's going to get very bad-

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Baldwins, sheriff's posse, KKK, ranger groups - carrying torches -  
smoke - to cast blackness

To cast blackness?

The tents were set on fire and those who could escaped.
The KKK was probably there in some form because within a year there  
was a fairly solid second national movement and within 6 years they  
were powerful in the Colorado.

Brice,  the militia guy says,  "I'm really fuckin' tired.  Ain't none  
of us been paid since we came down."  (is this surprising?)

"Get your anarchist ass out of here and if you people pray - pray I  
don't see it in the daylight."
So Jesse, age about what,  12?,   is now an anarchist.

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Frank is up in the arroyo and feels a hand but it's not Stray and  
there was nobody near- could be the hand of some dead striker ---

"Maybe even Webb's own hand. Webb and all that he had tried to make  
of his life, and all that had been taken, and all the paths his  
children had gone off on . . . Frank woke after a few seconds, found  
he'd been drooling down his shirt.  This would not do."
Ghosts again - trying to break through.

A photo of the arroyo:  (scroll down) http://www.desertusa.com/mag06/ 
aug/arroys.html

Frank sends Stray and Jesse back to her sister's but Jesse wants to  
stay.

"I'll be there quick as 'we' can get this wrapped up."   They both  
heard that "we," not the one they'd hoped for but the other one, the  
collective of shadows, dead on tehir feet, not half a d ozen words of  
Englsih among them, rifle butts dragging in the dirt, filing away  
east up the wagon road into the Black Hills now, trying to stay  
together. "

At dusk, a passing freight train stopped on the tracks in front of  
the Guards' machine gun placements, allowing many of the miners and  
their families to escape to an outcrop of hills to the east called  
the "Black Hills."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre#The_massacre
http://www.santafetrailscenicandhistoricbyway.org/ludlow.html  (good  
map of where the train went through near Ludlow)

By 7:00 p.m., the camp was in flames, and the militia descended on it  
and began to search and loot the camp. L
During the battle, four women and eleven children had been hiding in  
a pit beneath one tent, where they were trapped when the tent above  
them was set on fire. Two of the women and all of the children  
suffocated. These deaths became a rallying cry for the UMWA, who  
called the incident the "Ludlow Massacre."[1]

In addition to the fire victims, Louis Tikas (union leader - Greek)   
and the other men who were shot to death (including  Linderfelt),   
three company guards and one militiaman were also killed in that  
day's fighting.

and the aftermath at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre

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Other links and info:
Ludlow Massacre - photos etc :
http://members.tripod.com/~RedRobin2/index-29.html

Linderfeld, under military arrest for murder, arson, and larceny,  
accepted responsibility because he was "defending the flag."
NY Times 1914:  http://tinyurl.com/5r5cf2'

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News account from New York World  1914
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5737/

*
Howard Zinn a commemorative song and film clips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6kuvBnNNUs
(Sorry,  Mr. Zinn - as much as I respect what you do,  I heard about  
the Ludlow Massacre in high school history - but since you were born  
in 1922 it's possible the horrors hadn't got to the history books yet  
when you were attended.)

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Music: "Our Cause is Marching On," published in the United Mine  
Workers Journal on December 11, 1913,

Sung to the tune of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic." first stanza,  
chorus, and fourth stanza:

There's a fight in Colorado for to set the miners free,
 From the tyrants and the money kings and all the powers that be,
They have trampled o'er the freedom that was meant for you and me,
But right is marching on.
Chorus
Cheer, boys, cheer the cause of union!
The Colorado miners' union!
Glory, glory to our union!
Our cause is marching on.
There were union men at Lexington and famous Bunker Hill,
At Valley Forge and Brandywine, to curb a tyrant's will,
And the union men at Gettysburg displayed the greatest skill,
To keep this nation whole.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3732/is_200204/ai_n9025623/ 
pg_3?tag=artBody;col1

and another one by Aired Hayes

John D. he was a Christian,
John D. the psalms he sung;
But he'd no mercy in his heart,
He shot down old and young.
One night when all were sleeping,
all wrapped up in their dreams,
We heard a loud explosion,
We heard most terrible screams.
"Oh, save us from the burning flames,"
We heard our children cry;
But John D. laughed and shot them down
Right there before our eyes. (Greenway 1953:14-15)

Buried Unsung: Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
http://tinyurl.com/4yauhe

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Bekah