AtD - (36) pgs 1007 - 1012

Tue Jul 8 13:09:25 CDT 2008

And this one is great,   Zinn speaking over film clip with Guthrie's  
Ludlow Massacre also in the background:
http://webmunism.com/vids/of/labor+historians
(scroll down on the left to "Howard Zinn and the Ludlow Massacre")

You can also hear samples of tunes from Guthrie's   "Hard Travelin':  
The Asch Recordings, Vol. 3"  at:
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=35036

Awesome stuff.   Listen to some of the other clips, too -

Bekah

On Jul 8, 2008, at 8:08 AM, kelber at mindspring.com wrote:

> I attempted to send a link to the Woody Guthrie song, The Ludlow  
> Massacre, but apparently the file was too large to make it  
> through.  It's worth looking it up on i-tunes.
>
> Laura
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bekah <bekker2 at mac.com>
>> Sent: Jul 8, 2008 2:33 AM
>> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>> Subject: AtD - (36) pgs 1007 - 1012
>>
>> Starting at page 1007 -
>> This whole Ludlow section is written exactly like the history as it's
>> documented in several places on the net - a few mentioned below.  All
>> that deliberate misery-making can get quite depressing.   There is no
>> need here for anything other than a pretty straightforward account
>> (and inserting some characters) - the events speak for themselves.
>>
>>
>> Winter of 1913-1914
>>  Stray goes from Trinidad to Ludlow (about 12 miles southeast) where
>> the coal miners had been striking and living in a tent colony since
>> September.
>>
>> *
>>  The tent colony was for those union members who were on strike and
>> therefore had been evicted from their company owned homes.  These
>>
>> *
>> Guns lined up: (!)
>> http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image021a.gif
>>
>>
>> Ludlow Massacre:
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
>> http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/581/dpwfp/Historical-Foreward-and-
>> Bibliography/
>>
>> Excellent Photo Galleries -( scroll right)
>> http://www.du.edu/anthro/ludlow/cfphoto.html
>>
>>
>> Today Ludlow is a ghost town -
>> http://www.cultimedia.ch/ghosttowns/htme/ludlowco.htm
>> with a monument:
>> http://www.flickr.com/photos/surlymonkey/935096702/
>>
>> *
>>
>> Photo of the "Death Car"
>> http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/image010a.gif
>>
>> "They used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-
>> Browning machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to
>> patrol the camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the
>> CF&I plant in Pueblo from the chassis of a large touring sedan.
>> Because of frequent sniping on the tent colonies, miners dug
>> protective pits beneath the tents where they and their families could
>> seek shelter."
>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre#The_mine_strike
>>
>> *********************
>>
>> page 108
>> Jesse shows up via the Colorado and Southern railway
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:C%26S_RR_map.jpg
>> *
>>
>> Light as torture / darkness as compassion
>> "The Colorodo militia were in fact giving light a bad name.  Military
>> wisdom had it that putting searchlights on the enemy allowed you to
>> see them, while blinding them to you, giving you an inestimable edge
>> both tactical and psychological. In the tents, darkness in that awful
>> winter was sought like warmth or quiet.  It seemed like a form of
>> compassion. "
>>
>> Jesse goes out - comes back smug and the lights are out.
>>
>>
>> *********************
>> page 109
>> It was a very bad winter - tents collapse from the snow, etc.
>> http://www.sangres.com/history/coalfieldwar01.htm
>> http://courses.ed.asu.edu/margolis/life/homepage_files/exp01.htm
>> (stick around there - the images change)
>>
>> *
>> Strike breakers coming in via cattle cars from Pennsylvania and
>> trains escorted from the Mexican border.
>> There were 24 languages spoken in the tent city.
>> http://www.cobar.org/index.cfm/ID/581/dpwfp/Historical-Foreward-and-
>> Bibliography/
>> *
>> Moss Gatlin (Johann Most?) preaches forbearance and violence at the
>> same time
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Most
>> *
>> The mood grows uglier, women are raped, kids are beaten,  in Trinidad
>> the military attacked women marching in support of the strike, no one
>> killed (to this point)
>> see "The Autobiography of Mother Jones" - Part 3:
>> http://www.angelfire.com/nj3/RonMBaseman/mojones3.htm
>> *
>>
>> The 2 colt machine guns on armored "Death Car"
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1895_Colt-Browning_machine_gun
>>
>>
>> Baldwin-Felts "detective" agency.
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baldwin-Felts
>>
>> "Baldwin-Felts had a reputation for aggressive strike breaking.
>> Agents shone searchlights on the tent villages at night and randomly
>> fired into the tents, occasionally killing and maiming people. They
>> used an improvised armored car, mounted with a M1895 Colt-Browning
>> machine gun that the union called the "Death Special," to patrol the
>> camp's perimeters. The steel-covered car was built in the CF&I plant
>> in Pueblo from the chassis of a large touring sedan. Because of
>> frequent sniping on the tent colonies, miners dug protective pits
>> beneath the tents where they and their families could seek shelter. "
>>
>> A different pov:  http://www.baldwinfeltsdetectives.com/     (right -
>> just fyi)
>>
>> *******
>>
>> page 1010
>> Guardsmen are bad news -  blonde - shades of Nazi
>>
>> Jesse finds a level of evil never expected in adults until now.
>>
>> Not one but a  whole fleet of Death Specials and the drivers fear
>> they will be the victims.
>>
>> Jessie denies association with Union group
>>
>> ****
>>
>> page 1011
>> but Jessie also steals  two 30 caliber machine gun rounds to prevent
>> them being shot
>>
>> Meanwhile,  (and at this point it's April 19, 1914 or so -  the day
>> prior to the massacre)
>> Frank Traverse is in Aguilar,  between Walsenberg and Trinidad
>> at the 29 Luglio Saloon named for Anarchist Bresci assassinated King
>> Umberto of Italy
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaetano_Bresci
>>
>> He's checking out a gun - (imaginary? no)
>> Benet Mercier
>> http://tinyurl.com/63bttu
>> (follow links):  http://forums.gunboards.com/archive/index.php?
>> t-20386.html
>>
>>
>> Empire Mine - dangerous
>> there was an explosion there killing 13 people in 1919
>> NY Times 3 days after Ludlow Massacre:
>> http://tinyurl.com/4qvvb5
>>
>>
>> Frank sees a woman  who looks like Michelangelo's Pieta to others:
>> (in case you forgot)
>> http://www.saintpetersbasilica.org/Altars/Pieta/Pieta-ah06.jpg
>>
>> Stray - recognizes Frank and tells him the night's young
>> It's Stray - dressed as a "Sister of Charity"
>> http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/vol296/issue8/images/medium/
>> jbk60126fa.jpg
>>
>> ***************
>>
>> Page 1012
>>
>> Frank and Stray get reacquainted, there in the bar and  find out if
>> each other is free, relationship wise - Ewball / Ren
>> Frank is not just Reef without the loco streak - he's different - not
>> so readable now here in coalfields which were about to explode
>>
>> Frank:  "They're fixing to do away with all them tents."
>>
>> "Creeping along,  her nun's shadow in the search light beams..."
>>
>>
>> April 19 - Jesse has gone with Balkan kids -  "It's their Easter or
>> somethin."
>>  The Balkan kids" would likely be Eastern Orthodox religion and
>> their Easter falls at some point between early April to early May,
>> following the cycle of the moon.  After several centuries of
>> disagreement, all churches accepted the computation of the
>> Alexandrian Church (now the Coptic Church) that Easter is the first
>> Sunday after the first fourteenth day of the moon (the Paschal Full
>> Moon) that is on or after the ecclesiastical vernal equinox.
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter
>>
>> ***********************
>>
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