This is an original advertising sign from the Colorado Fuel and Iron company, and features three red devils running with pails of coal. Its a sign for C. F. & I. Coals. and reads: \"C. F. & I. Coals for MORE HEAT!\" It measure 20 inches long by 9 inches high.
There are some scratches across the front of the sign. There is a rust spot and tiny dent on the top right of the sign. There are very small amounts of rust on the edges of the sign, very little dirt and grime on the front and back, and what seems to be some rust staining on the back. (see photos) No touch ups have been made on this sign. It is in the condition I found it.
The red lettering and devil artwork are raised, and the devils were designed individually, as they are all slightly different. It is an icon marking a period in American History, highlighting the need for organized labor.
It will be well packaged and sent with confirmed delivery via USPS.
Please feel free to ask any questions, and happy offerding ers.
TheColorado Fuel and Iron Company(CF&I) was a large steel concern. By 1903, it was largely owned and controlled byJohn D. RockefellerandJay Gould\'s financial heirs.[1]While it came to control many plants throughout the country, its main plant was asteel millon the south side ofPueblo, Coloradoand was the city\'s main industry for most of its history. From 1901 to 1912, Colorado Fuel and Iron was one of the Dow Jones Industrials. The steel-market crash of 1982 lead to the decline of the company. After going through severalbankruptcies, the company was acquired byOregon Steel Millsin 1993, and changed its name to Rocky Mountain Steel Mills. In January 2007, along with the rest of Oregon Steel\'s holdings, was acquired byEvraz Group SA, aRussiansteel corporation, for $2.3 billion.

TheLudlow Massacrewas an attack by theColorado National Guardand Colorado Fuel & Iron Company camp guards on a tent colony of 1,200 strikingcoal minersand their families atLudlow, Colorado, on April 20, 1914. Some two dozen people, including women and children, were killed;John D. Rockefeller Jr., the chief mine owner, was pilloried for what happened.

The massacre, the culmination of a bloody widespread strike against Colorado coal mines, resulted in the violent deaths of between 19 and 26 people; reported death tolls vary but include two women and eleven children, asphyxiated and burned to death under a single tent.[1]The deaths occurred after a daylong fight between militia and camp guards against striking workers. Ludlow was the deadliest single incident in the southern Colorado Coal Strike, lasting from September 1913 through December 1914. The strike was organized by theUnited Mine Workers of America(UMWA) against coal mining companies in Colorado. The three largest companies involved were theRockefeller family-ownedColorado Fuel & Iron Company(CF&I), theRocky Mountain Fuel Company(RMF), and the Victor-American Fuel Company (VAF).

In retaliation for Ludlow, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines over the next ten days, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard along a 40-mile front fromTrinidadtoWalsenburg.[2]The entire strike would cost between 69 and 199 lives. Thomas G. Andrews described it as the \"deadliest strike in the history of the United States\".[3]

The Ludlow Massacre was a watershed moment in American labor relations. HistorianHoward Zinnde scribed the Ludlow Massacre as \"the culminating act of perhaps the most violent struggle between corporate power and laboring men in American history\".[4]Congress responded to public outcry by directing theHouse Committee on Mines and Miningto investigate the incident.[5]Its report, published in 1915, was influential in promotingchild labor lawsand an eight-hour work day.

The Ludlow site, 12 miles (19km) northwest ofTrinidad, Colorado, is now aghost town. Themassacresite is owned by the UMWA, which erected a granitemonumentin memory of the miners and their families who died that day.[6]TheLudlow Tent Colony Sitewas designated aNational Historic Landmarkon January 16, 2009, and dedicated on June 28, largely supports the strikers\' reports of the event.[7] ---Wikipedia