Colorado State University – Pueblo hosts panel of Labor Movement Monuments
             
Pueblo- Colorado State University – Pueblo will host a panel of experts on labor and labor landmarks Saturday, June 4 to discuss the impact of the Ludlow Massacre on American labor history and set the stage for the re-dedication of the Ludlow Memorial the following day.

CSU-Pueblo will sponsor “Ludlow, Labor Landmarks and Memory” beginning at 4:30 p.m. on June 4 in Hoag Hall. A reception will follow the panel in the Hoag Hall foyer at approximately 5:45 p.m.

The forum was scheduled to coincide with the June 5 annual meeting of the United Mine Workers of America at the Ludlow Massacre site, where the organization will unveil a $77,000 restored statue that honors 12 miners, wives and children who lost their lives there in April 1914. In May 2003, the original statues of the miner and his wife were neatly decapitated by unknown vandals. The memorial was built in 1917.

The panel will focus on remembering those tragic events and placing them in the context of the rest of American labor history. The University encourages participants attending the rededication ceremony to spend the night in Pueblo and learn from this gathering of experts. Panelists will include Archaeologist Dean Saitta, University of Denver, who has led a dig near Ludlow for many years; Holly Syrrakos of the Inventory of American Labor Landmarks, and James Green, Professor of History and Labor Studies at the University of Massachusetts – Boston, who serves as President of the Labor and Working Class History Association. Corey Dolgon of the University of Massachusetts – Worcester also will perform a selection of labor songs.


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