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The Colorado Coal Company Strike
The miners held an open convention in trinidad, attended by delegates who elected at hundreds of secret meetings. They said that out of every ton of coal that they dug, the company took 20 to forty % of it without compensation. Anyone who complained about the conditions was immediately fired and thrown out of his company lodging with his family. Several were killed. During the course of the strike, 21 babies would be born there. The u m w was over all pretty moderate. And they helped the democratic party fight off challenges from the left,. like from the socialist and progressive parties.