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Lost Highways

The Mother of All Strikes

Season 3, episode 6

On this episode of Lost Highways, we look back at Mother Jones, one of the fiercest labor organizers in American history, and her role in the United Mine Workers of America's massive strike in the southern Colorado coalfields that led to the Ludlow Massacre on April 20, 1914.

Guests: Thomas Andrews | Ginny Ayers | Bob Butero | Rosemary Feurer | Elliot Gorn | Karin Larkin | Linda Linville | Fawn-Amber Montoy | Zeese Papanikolas

Resources: Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America by Elliot J. Gorn. | Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War by Thomas Andrews. | Matewan | Never Justice, Never Peace | Thunder in the Mountain: The West Virginia Mine War, 1920-21 by Lon Savage. | The New Gilded Age from NPR's Throughline.

Mother of All Strikes script

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