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Ana Pastrano MGMT 3324 8-6-17 Homework Week 10

The Ludlow Massacre was a night mare for those families and as I read how they lived and were treated was horrible, those families, women, children and men never had a chance. The working conditions that the families endured and in place at the time was the reason the massacre occurred as the coal mine company ended their plea for change and help as the families were burned with intent to hush them up and stop complaining, which lead up to the battle. The mine workers and their families were forced to live in tents approximately 14 ft. by 16 ft. Miners were paid $1.68 a day and were to only purchase items needed by the employing coal company. The job also had very high fatality rates due to the working conditions that the miners were forced to work under. The Ludlow mine was owned an operated by the Colorado Fuel & Iron Company (CF&I), owned by the wealthy and powerful Rockefeller family. The CF&I had also hired the Baldwin Felts Detective Agency to harass the strikes and to break or end the strike one of their most effective technique was to fire bullets at random into the tents, another method was patrolling the perimeter of the tent, of which at the time the miners thought was for their protection and welcomed the armed men but soon found out they were not their for their protection. These men came in a machine gun armored car named Death Special, and an unknown number of people were killed and wounded prior to the massacre, as a result of the random gunfire. Nevertheless these families had a right to better living conditions and a better way of life for their families, women and children, as well as for the mine workers that worked in very poor working conditions which lead to many men dying. As a result of this massacre at Ludlow in Colorado rules in the legislation system became effective one being the “Child Labor Law” no children working in unsafe and jeopardize the children’s health and well-being or educational opportunities, as well as the only working eight hour work day. John D. Rockefeller, Jr engaged labor relations experts and future Canadian Prime Minister W.L. Mackenzie King to help him develop reforms for the mines and towns which included paved roads and recreational facilities, as well as worker representation on committees dealing with working conditions, safety and health. To this day in age, there are laws that prohibit poor living conditions, poor working conditions and yes anyone has a right to speak how they feel without breaking the laws but instead enforcing the agencies to update their rules and update in the current laws in days. Works Cited: Snell, S., Morris, S. & Bohlander, G.W., (2016).1. In Managing Human Resources (17th ed. pp. 557-558). Boston, MA: Cengage. Print.

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