The Most Hated Man in Colorado Ended a Bloody Strike With a Single Speech
In 1915, John D. Rockefeller Jr. was the most hated man in the state of Colorado. A bloody strike had dragged on for two years, and workers wanted to see him hanged. But instead of confrontation, he spent weeks befriending the very strikers who despised him, then gave a speech that sent them back to work without a single extra cent in wages.
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