25 APRIL 1914, Page 18

The long strike on the coalfields of the Standard Oil

Com- pany at Ludlow, Colorado, culminated on Monday in a pitched battle between the strikers and the Colorado Militia. The fighting grew out of an attack on some Militiamen by strikers' wives and the eviction of the imported armed mine guards, and led to the burning of the strikers' tent colony, which was swept by machine guns. Friday's news describes the situation as becoming hourly worse. Thirty-nine people are reported to have been killed, or burned to death, and the miners, infuriated by the shooting of their wives and children, are entrenched in the hills awaiting assistance from other Southern Colorado camps, while the State Militia has been reinforced by several hundred men.