Editing Victor, Colorado (section)

===Unionized workforce===

The [[Western Federation of Miners]] (WFM) began to organize workers in a fight for shorter work days and standard wages.<ref name="Varney p. 64">{{cite book|author=Philip Varney|title=Ghost Towns of the Mountain West: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtYK6OD3RX8C&pg=PA64|access-date=May 22, 2013|date=July 4, 2010|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=978-1-61060-090-3|page=64}}</ref> The workforce became heavily unionized after the Western Federation of Miners conducted a [[Cripple Creek miners' strike of 1894|significant strike in 1894]]. A subsequent strike in 1903 had such an impact that it came to be called the [[Colorado Labor Wars]].<ref>{{ Cite journal | author=William Philpott | title=The Lessons of Leadville, Or, Why the Western Federation of Miners Turned Left (Monograph 10) | journal=Monograph | location=Denver |publisher=Colorado Historical Society | year=1994 | issn=1046-3100 }}</ref> At this point, the amount of available ore to mine had declined significantly and mining in the district was further impacted by slow production as the result of violent strikes.<ref name="Varney pp. 63-65">{{cite book|author=Philip Varney|title=Ghost Towns of the Mountain West: Your Guide to the Hidden History and Old West Haunts of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qtYK6OD3RX8C&pg=PA63|access-date=May 22, 2013|date=July 4, 2010|publisher=Voyageur Press|isbn=978-1-61060-090-3|pages=63–65}}</ref>

The [[Western Federation of Miners union hall|WFM's union hall]] in Victor still stands, with telltale bullet holes left intact. The building has structural problems and needs renovation.<ref>{{cite web |title=Victor hall hanging by thread In 2014, the Hall was struck by lightning and burned. It is now just a shell. |author=Deedee Correll |date=March 30, 2005 |work= The Gazette |publisher=Colorado Springs }}</ref>