Biography
Louis Tikas was a leader of Greek striking miners at Ludlow, Colorado. A 1932 Labor Defender account reports that National Guardsmen captured and held him before killing him during the April 20, 1914 Ludlow massacre.
Labor Defender’s account of the April 20, 1914 Ludlow massacre identifies Louis Tikas as a leader of the Greek miners on strike. It says Captain Hamrock summoned him to a tent and that Tikas returned to the strikers waving a white handkerchief. The account later describes guards capturing Tikas, holding him while Linderfelt struck him with a rifle, and shooting him in the back. This is an attributed historical account of physical restraint by state troops during a labor conflict; it supplies no jail admission or measured detention duration.
