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Out of the depths:

by Beshoar, Barron B.
Published by : Golden Bell Press (Denver, CO) Physical details: xii, 372 p. Year: 1914
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Office 978.8622334002 Bes (Browse shelf) Available In Memory of : Richard L. Fuller MD 29741
sw 900 - 999 978.8622334002 Bes (Browse shelf) Available Book Fund 37379

Foreword --
History of the trades and labor assembly --
The coal fields --
Strike of 1910 --
An impious Joan of Arc --
The 1913 strike call --
Exodus and the death special --
Call out the militia --
Gunmen in armor --
A pompous general --
"Ride down the women" --
Uncle Sam asks questions --
Rockefeller on the stand --
The Ludlow Massacre --
Call to arms --
The feminine touch --
Requiems and reprisals --
Federal troops --
The strike ends --
No. 26 Broadway --
Persecution --
The verdict --
Organized protests --
The Lawson statement --
Finger on Rockefeller --
Croesus in overalls --
Czar Farr leaves throne --
Lawson is freed --
Out of the depths --
Bibliography.

This is a biography of John R. Lawson. But it is much more. As Mr. Lawson epitomized the coal miner's struggle for human rights in Colorado just before the first World War, the story of his career necessarily becomes in part the history of that struggle.

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