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Ludlow, Colorado, Also there was a big strike in Lowell, Mass. at about that time of wholly unorganized textile and paper workers.
One of the things that is interesting to recall now, although at that moment it didn't seem so important to us, was that William Lyon Mackenzie King was then a young man in Canada. He came back and forth across the border frequently, having business in New York and other places as well. He had been doing some kind of industrial relations work - very small and more in the may of efficiency planning. He had a good reputation in Canada. As a result of all this hullaballoo, the investigation, the lockout, the men camping in the mountains and hills in Colorado the violence and bloodshed, the Rockefellers employed Mackenzie King as an industrial relations adviser and aid for the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, not for anything else. That was the first time that most people had ever heard of Mackenzie King. In fact, there was no reason why they should have heard of him. He had an undistinguished career up until that time. I seem to think that some of us knew about him very vaguely as a man who'd been concerned about personnel matters in one way or another.
He stayed with the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company for years and he only want back to Canada after at least ten years of service with them. He made his reputation for Canada
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