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On this episode of the Labor Exchange we travel to Leadville, Colorado for the unveiling of a new memorial commemorating the 1100 unmarked graves of the Catholic Pauper section of Evergreen Cemetery. We hear from Jim Walsh a Professor of Labor History at the University of Colorado at Denver on what it took to make this tribute a reality. The memorial is closely tied to Colorado’s labor history being home to the Cloud City Miners’ Union Local No. 33 of the Western Federation of Miners and a place where Colorado drew out many of its early labor leaders.