Karl Linderfelt
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Karl Linderfelt was a soldier, mine worker, soldier of fortune, and officer in the Colorado National Guard
. He was reported to have been responsible for an attack upon, and the ultimate death of, strike leader Louis Tikas
during the Ludlow Massacre
.
Colorado National Guard
The Colorado Department of Military and Veterans Affairs is a state agency of the Government of Colorado. It supervises both the Colorado National Guard , and non-military state safety agencies.The Department consists of the Department of Military Affairs, and the Division of Veterans' Affairs, and...
. He was reported to have been responsible for an attack upon, and the ultimate death of, strike leader Louis Tikas
Louis Tikas
Louis Tikas was the main labor union organizer at the Ludlow camp during a 14-month coal strike in southern Colorado from 1913-1914. In 1910, the year Louis Tikas filed his citizenship papers, he was part owner of a Greek coffee house on Market Street in Denver...
during the Ludlow Massacre
Ludlow massacre
The Ludlow Massacre was an attack by the Colorado National Guard on a tent colony of 1,200 striking coal miners and their families at Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914....
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