🔸New York, May 4, 1914. Upton Sinclair, in white, who was arrested a few days earlier on April 29th, for protesting in front of the Standard Oil Building over the working conditions of Colorado coal miners. On April 20, John D. Rockefeller, Principal Owner Of Standard Oil, had Directed the National Guard to use machine guns on a tent colony of striking miners and their families, killing 21 including women and children. The strike evolved into the bloodiest labour dispute in American history, Sinclair published King Coal in 1917. #victorianchaps #edwardian #history #vintage #badolddays #retro #1910s #uptonsinclair #strikes #miners #johndrockefeller #oldphoto #nyc #newyork #victorian (at New York, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGb6AoRATYD/?igshid=114orywgx13gq