Anaconda Road Massacre : Labor Rights, Mass Murder, Cold Blooded Murder, TRUE CRIME
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Anaconda Road Massacre : Labor Rights, Mass Murder, Cold Blooded Murder, TRUE CRIME
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The Anaconda Road Massacre was a deadly labor conflict that took place on April 21, 1920, near Butte, Montana, during a major miners’ strike against the powerful Anaconda Copper Mining Company. As members of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) and the Metal Mine Workers Industrial Union picketed along Anaconda Road to demand better wages, an eight‑hour workday, and an end to anti‑union practices, tensions with mine officials and local law enforcement escalated. Deputized mine guards opened fire on the unarmed striking workers gathered outside the Neversweat Mine, shooting at them as they tried to flee; sixteen miners were wounded and one, Tom Manning, was killed. Federal troops were brought in the next day to prevent further violence, but the strike eventually collapsed, and no one was ever held accountable for Manning’s death, leaving the massacre as a stark example of the violent lengths to which industrial interests could go to suppress organized labor in early 20th‑century America.