“I'm not a humanitarian, I'm hell. » Mother Jones followed her own advice regarding a small town in Las Animas County. The Ludlow Massacre took place on April 20, 1994, in the tent city of Ludlow, Colorado. The complex web of events that led to the events in Ludlow is a glimpse into the conditions in which some minorities and immigrants had to live. at the beginning of the 20th century. Coal production had become one of the driving forces of the industrial revolution in the United States. Coal was used for a variety of purposes, including powering steam engines, making iron, and heating homes and towns. One of the largest users of coal in southern Colorado was the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company (CF&I). Their furnaces were heated with coal from the Culebra Mountain Range in southern Colorado, which was known to have the richest coal in the state. The coal is shiny black bituminous coal, the second highest grade of coal available. CF&I owned the lands and mines from which the coal was supplied, the majority of the workers they h...