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1911-1919 Striker's tent colony at Ludlow, Colorado. *Coal Age, May 9, 1914 ment to act as mediator. With Congress holding hearings and new, violent labor actions spreading, on May 9, Coal Age weighed in on the U.S. government's posi- tion. Commenting that the Wilson govern- ment seemingly was siding with the strikers' demands to keep all mines closed until the inquiry was complete, "All of which means that the United States government is asked to close down the mine still the men have every demand satisfied. The nation is not to permit any man to work unless the men who have engaged in lawless rebellion are willing. We can easily see why the militia, though directed by a pliant governor, failed to satisfy the strikers." In a long two-page editorial titled "The Colorado Strike and the Press" (May 23, 1914), Coal Age excoriated the popular press for switching sides with every new detail of the incidents at Ludlow and battles that ensued. "The venality of the public press has rarely been more clearly exhibit- ed than in its treatment of the Colorado strike. We do not refer to its editorial utter- ances because it is had for a paper which is not published for the capitalist to side openly with him, for while he and his sym- pathizer purchase single copies of the newspapers, his enemies and contemners, 44 www.coalage.com 100th Anniversary Special Issue August 2012