1914-2014 : 100 years from the murder of Louis Tikas

Louis Tikas photos - Ludlow Massacre

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1886 - 1914

Ηλίας Σπαντιδάκης  (Louis Tikas)

Last week the makers of the documentary "Palikari" presented it in my town, homeland of Louis Tikas (Ηλίας Σπαντιδάκης), a poor immigrant from a village near Rethymnon that fought the Rockefellers' oppression till his death

read more here :

• Louis Tikas : english - greek

• the Ludlow massacre : english

• Palikari documentary

srtikers at Ludlow

Rockefeller's men dressed in Colorado militia uniform

the strikers' tent colony

the destroyed colony after militia assault

armed strikers wearing red bandanas

the militia against the strikers

Karl Linderfelt , the murderer . Tikas went to him to negotiate, holding a white flag.

L.Tikas , the murdered leader of the strikers .  His body was left unburied for days on the railway

funeral of L.Tikas and the other massacre victims in Trinidad, Colorado

a queue of thousands of workers behind the coffins

The strike and the massacre inspired Woody Guthrie to write this song :






Shame , 100 years after the murder of this great man , the working conditions in his homeland are returning back to the same disgrace that he fought ..



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