Denver labor bulletin. [volume] (Denver, Colo.) 1915-19??, 1918-06-01
STOOD WITH UNCOVERED
HEADS AS MARY PAT
RUCCI LiOOS SENS
SILKEN FLAG.
Wonderful Change Is Thus Dem
onstrated During Past Four
Years, as Remarkable Scene
Is Presented at Brink
of the Black Hole.

LUDLOW, Colo, May 3O.-John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., and wifs attended
the Memorial services and unwilling
of a granite shaft here today on the
scene of the Ludlow massacre four
years ago. What a revolutionary
change has come about in the Colo
rado Fuel and Iron Company over
lords during this time, Today young
Rockefeller stood with uncovered
bowed head in the presence of 1000
Greek, Polish and Slavic coal miners
conducted on the brink of the black
hole where on April 20, 1914, eleven
children and two women were muir
dered by coal company gunner wear
ing the garb of Colorado state militia
men. In the Rockefeller party attend
ing the ceremonies was Mr.. and Mrs.
Mckenzie King. The party motored
up from Trinidad.
Presence Was a Surprise.
Young Rockefeller, head of the
Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, ar
rived in Trinidad Monday and has
been inspecting his mining camps in
the southern part of the state.
Altho Mr.. Rockefeller was not
scheduled to attend the unveiling, he
obtained a private motor car and in
company with the other members of
his party drove to Ludlow to be pres
ent at the event. Unheralded and un-
announced, Mr.. Rockefeller arrived at
the ceremonies and sent his card by a
messenger to the presiding officer.
Aside from this he took no part in the
exercises and there were but few per-
sons in the crowd who even knew Of
his presence until after his departure.
Flag Unfolds from Shaft.
As the silken flag was loosened and
fell to the base of the monument, the
string having been released by Mrs.
Mary Patrucci, mother of three chill
dren who lost their lives in the Lud-
low massacre, there were many in the
crowd who for the first time looked
upon the granite shaft, which had been
purchased by means of popular sub
thruout the country.
The shaft, a large marble structure,
stands on the ground where the great
est number of fatalities during the
strike occurred. 1t is in the heart
of the once famous ludlow tent col
sny, where the bodieS of eleven chill
dren and two women were found after
the destruction of the camp by fire,
massacre and burning of the camp by
the state militia on April 70, 1914. 1t
is twenty feet high and Immediately
in front of the large shaft itself are
the life-sized figures of miner, a
woman and a child
Paid for by the Miners.
The monument is the product of one,
of the best known sculptors of the
country and was purchased at cost
of approximately $4,000. This sum
was raised by subscriptions ranging
in size from cents to 81.
The national officers present all
made memorial addresses, and there
were also speeches in Italian. Greek
and the Slavonie languages by local
miners.
The Rockefeller party, after attend
ing the unveiling, left Trinidad for
Rouse. The members will go on to
Walsenburg tomorrow morning. where
they will inspect the Colorado Fuel
and Iron Company's properties in
Huerfano county.
They are due in Pueblo at noon Sat-
urday. They probably will spend
three days in Pueblo. leaving for Dem
yer about Wednesday.
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