Liberalism: Power, Economic Crisis, Reform, War 111We don’t propose to get out of the way when a lot of capitalists from New
York and London come down and tell us to get off the earth. They played
that game on the American Indian. They gave him the end of a log to sit on
and then pushed him off that. We don’t propose to be pushed off.”
The Baldwin-Felts were not about to back down either, and in February
1913 opened fire on miners with a Gatling Gun, the “Death Special” later
used in Ludlow, and killed a striker. Finally, the U.S. senate stepped in and
conducted an investigation of the incident. One of the most chilling testimo-
nies came from Mrs. Gianiana Seville, a miner’s wife. She told the senators
that she was in bed and heard shots fired so got up to check things out, and
saw guards doing down the hill. Then about 20 Baldwin-Felts broke into her
home and 2 attacked her. As she described it, “Those guards were going into
the other neighbors houses there, and they began to pick up the men that they
could find in the houses. Then they came into our house, and they opened
the door and... on the bed was my baby, and it was asleep, and I told the
guards to let the baby alone because the baby was on the bed; and they struck
me and I fell down, and then they kicked me in the stomach and they hit me
with their fists in here, and then they knocked me down... [T]hey turned up
the bed, then, and they wanted to get in, and they asked me to give them the
FIGuRE 2-13 Labor agitator Mary Harris “Mother” Jones