Daily life during the strike involved harassment and violence from those trying to end the strike, such as the National Guard and coal company officials. However, the majority of life in the Ludlow strikers' colony involved the development of solidarity and community between strikers and their families despite ethnic and language differences. There were at least 24 different languages spoken in the Ludlow strikers' colony. Those strikers that could talk to each other still had to deal with cultural differences. Generally the strikers shared a common interest in winning the strike and achieving their demands. They had also faced the same challenges in the coal camps. The union developed public spaces and public activities such as dinners, sports, and meetings to add to the solidarity in the strikers' colony. Union officials thought that through shared activities strikers would develop a common identity. From oral histories and eye-witness accounts the union's plan worked in unifying the strikers for the duration of the strike.