Volume 11 , Issue 36

1914 Human Rights & Social Justice

The Ludlow massacre April 20, 1914 climaxed a struggle by Colorado coal miners struggling for recognition of their United Mine Workers union. a battle with state militia near Trinidad ended with 21 dead including two women and 11 children caught in tents that had been set ablaze, angry strikers took possession of the Colorado coalfields, and they did not yield until federal troops moved in June 1, 1914.

The Amalgamated clothing Workers of America was formed by a dissident majority within the manufacturer-oriented United Garment Workers Union. Suffragettes marched on the capitol at Washington June 28, 1914 to demand voting rights for U.S. women. The march was staged within hours of the assassination of Sarajevo.

Mohandas Gandhi returned to India at age 45 after 21 years of practicing law in South Africa where he organized a campaign of "passive resistance" to protest his mistreatment by whites for his defense of Asian immigrants. Gandhi had read Henry David Thoreau's 1849 essay "On the Duty of Civil Disobedience" and he attracted wide attention in India by conducting a fast -- the first of 14 such fasts that he would stage as political demonstrations and that would inaugurate the idea of the political fast.
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