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4 unusual facts about John Calderwood


Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894

Union president John Calderwood issued a notice a week later demanding that the mine owners reinstate the eight-hour day at the $3.00 wage.

John Calderwood

Emma Langdon was the wife of a man who had been a newspaper reporter in Victor, Colorado, during the Cripple Creek miner's strike of 1903-04.

In 1897, Calderwood was one of 37 men who formed the Victor Elks Lodge, No. 367.

T. J. Tarsney

John Calderwood, president of the local affiliate of the Western Federation of Miners, assured Tarsney that union members would peacefully surrender for arrest, if that is what Tarsney wished.



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