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Hellraisers Journal – Tuesday December 16, 1913
Trinidad, Colorado – Tikas and Uhlich Held in Cold, Snow-Covered, Jail
News from Southern Colorado Coalfield Strike
Sunday December 7, 1913, Trinidad, Colorado
Tikas and Uhlich covered in snow in jail as a blizzard raged.
December 3, 1913
The jail cell in Trinidad where Louie Tikas, Bob Uhlich, and fifteen other striking miners are being held, is unheated. Also, there is a broken window through which the wind and snow filled the gloomy cell as the blizzard raged across Colorado a few days ago. The men were forced to sleep, as best the could, on bunks covered with 3 inches of snow, and no blankets.
Brothers Tikas and Uhlich were interrogated by Major Boughton, chief legal officer of the militia. The men were grilled for several hours. Uhlich refused to give any testimony whatsoever, stating that only the civil authorities had the right to question him. Brother Uhlich has been designated a “dangerous and undesirable alien.” Tikas was promised his freedom if he would persuade the Greeks at Ludlow to turn themselves into scabs. We may assume that he refused this offer, for he has not yet been released. Brother Adolph Germer was arrested returning from Denver recently. We are unsure at this time where he is being held.
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Saturday December 13, 1913 Cedar Hills, Colorado
Lt. Linderfelt Recruits Hard-Core Veterans and Mine Guards
Lt. Linderfelt has been recruiting new soldiers to fill the ranks of Company B of the Second Battalion. This company is camped at Cedar Hills, near to the Ludlow Tent Colony at the entrance of Berwind Canyon. Word has it that he has turned to the veterans with whom he served in the Philippines and Mexico.
More and more mine guards are also being recruited to fill the ranks of Company B. Linderfelt dislikes the part-timers now serving in Company B. He is only too happy to replace them as they seek to return to their civilian lives. Linderfelt prefers to approach the job of keeping the peace in the strike zone through the use of company gunthugs and battle-hardened soldiers. Company B has frequent run-ins with the colonist at Ludlow. They go heavily armed into the camp, unlike the soldiers of the other companies who often visit the Ludlow camp in small groups and without arms.
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From the Trinidad Chronicle News of December 15, 1913:
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SOURCES & IMAGES
Quote John Lawson 1913, after October 17th Death Special Attack
on Forbes Tent Colony, Beshoar p74
https://archive.org/details/outofdepths0000unse/page/74/mode/1up?q=bandanna
Buried Unsung
Louis Tikas and the Ludlow Massacre
-by Zeese Papanikolas
U of Nebraska Press, 1991
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/mode/1up?view=theater
-re prisoners
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/page/134/mode/1up?view=theater&q=prisoners
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/page/135/mode/1up?view=theater&q=uhlich+dangerous
https://archive.org/details/buriedunsungloui0000papa/page/136/mode/1up?view=theater&q=prisoners
Blood Passion
The Ludlow Massacre and Class War
in the American West
-by Scott Martelle
Rutgers U Press, 2008
(search: linderfelt recruited mercenaries)
https://books.google.com/books?id=sH5oOK3MKqUC
The Chronicle News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Dec 3, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-12-03/ed-1/seq-1/
-Dec 15, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-12-15/ed-1/seq-1/
See also:
Hellraisers Journal – Monday December 15, 1913
Southern Colorado Coalfields – Striking Miners Victims of Uniformed Tyranny
The Rocky Mountain News
(Denver, Colorado)
-Dec 7, 1913
“Military Board Detains Eleven”
“Five Are Held For Murder”
-Robert Uhlich, Louis Zancanelli, Mario Veni, Frank Ganzales, Mike Guerriero, James Bicuuvaris, Abel Martinez, M. Mestes, Nash Lopez, Louie Tikas,
https://www.genealogybank.com/doc/newspapers/image/v2:12C601A5C4B97518@GB3NEWS-147952B66FB41110@2420109-1477649CE9F2C118@5-1477649CE9F2C118
The Chronicle News
(Trinidad, Colorado)
-Dec 8, 1913
“Germer Held as Important Witness”
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn90051521/1913-12-08/ed-1/seq-1/
Industrial Relations
Final Report and Testimony, Volume 8
United States. Commission on Industrial Relations
U.S. Government Printing Office, 1916
(search: linderfelt command “company b”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=0-keAQAAMAAJ
Search: linderfelt Dec 1913-April 1914
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/results/?dateFilterType=range&date1=12%2F01%2F1913&date2=04%2F30%2F1914&language=&ortext=&andtext=linderfelt&phrasetext=&proxtext=&proxdistance=5&rows=50&searchType=advanced&sort=date
Tag: Colorado Coalfield Strike of 1913-1914
https://weneverforget.org/tag/colorado-coalfield-strike-of-1913-1914/
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