It’s no consolation but wanton desecration isn’t confined to the UK. The Ludlow Monument is a granite memorial erected at Ludlow, Colorado in 1918 to honor the victims of the Ludlow massacre. The Monument was damaged by persons unknown in 2003 with the heads and arms of the statue figures cut and removed, but has undergone repair. The repaired monument was unveiled at the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) annual Ludlow ceremony on June 5, 2005.

Very briefly (from Wiki, but Googled you’ll get many hits on the subject) The Ludlow Massacre refers to the violent deaths of 20 people, 11 of them children, during an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado in the U.S. on April 20, 1914. These deaths occurred after a day-long fight between strikers and the Guard. Two women, eleven children, six miners and union officials and one National Guardsman were killed. In response, the miners armed themselves and attacked dozens of mines, destroying property and engaging in several skirmishes with the Colorado National Guard.

This was the bloodiest event in the 14-month 1913-1914 southern Colorado Coal Strike

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