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#OtD 24 Dec 1913 73 people (59 of whom were children) were killed at a Christmas party of striking miners' families. Witnesses said they saw bosses' thugs shouting "fire", and some claimed they held doors shut, causing a crush on the stairway https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9637/christmas-eve-calumet-massacre