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Louis Tikas

Case from Ludlow, CO dated Apr 20, 1914

Victim Details

Louis Tikas

Male

White / Caucasian

Ludlow

CO

1914-04-20

29

Louis

Tikas

07/06/2026

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Louis Tikas, a 28-year-old Greek man, met his end on April 20, 1914, a day that would become infamous as the Ludlow Massacre. Born Elias Anastasios Spantidakis in Crete, Greece, he had emerged as a key organizer for the United Mine Workers of America, leading a community of roughly 1,200 striking coal miners and their families living in a tent colony in Ludlow, Colorado. The strike against the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, owned by John D. Rockefeller Jr., was a desperate plea for better pay a ...
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    I recently read about the role of Lieutenant Karl Linderfelt in the brutal events of the Ludlow Mass... ...Read More
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