LUDLOW, Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War - Documentary Available Online The National Herald, NEW YORK - July 7-13, 2018 - The English Version of Ludlow, Greek Americans in the Colorado Coal War (2016) directed by Leonidas Vardaros, produced by Apostolis Berdebes Non Profit Company is now available online at vimeo.com -  https://vimeo.com/164340894 The film can be downloaded or streamed for personal use or public screenings of a non-commercial nature. Ludlow was selected as Best Historical Documentary in the 18th Thessaloniki International Documentary Festival.  In August 2016, the film received the 2nd Award for Feature Documentaries at the 3rd Ierapetra International Documentary Festival and in October 2016 it received the Best Editing Award at the 10th Chalkis Documentary Festival.  The film team, consisting of director Leonidas Vardaros, cinematographer Prokopis Dafnos, researcher Frosso Tsouka, editor Xenofon Vardaros, sound engineer Andreas Gkovas, ...

THE GREEK ROGUE OF THE AMERICAN WEST Part Three By Steve Frangos Published in The National Herald, January 10, 2009 ------------------------------ I am excited that  The National Herald  has given Hellenic Genealogy Geek the right to reprint articles that may be of interest to our group.  ------------------------------ PART THREE  After all that I have written about Peter Attias, one of the most successful Greek immigrant confidence men of the American West, many will say this man’s life was simply an aberration. Why look at rogues? Clearly the vast majority of Greek sojourners who arrived in North America between 1870 and 1924 were law abiding individuals who only wanted to find an honest job. It is Dr. Attias’ nearly two years in and around Salt Lake City that demands our attention. For it is between 1904 and 1905 that Peter Attias challenged Leonidas Skliris as chief labor leader for the Greeks in the American West. ...

Greek Star  --  August 26, 1904 General Gathering of Greek Businessmen of Chicago to Protect Their Business and the Greek Name - Consul General Interested The meeting of Greek businessmen last Sunday packed the Greek Orthodox church. The object of the meeting was to find ways and means to protect their business and their racial prestige against attacks by the Chicago press arising from the conduct of 320 Greeks who accepted jobs as strike-breakers. Chicago newspapers have raised a hue and cry against Greeks in general, not taking into consideration the facts that by so doing they injure the business of Greeks who are not engaged in strike-breaking, and that they are also throwing mud at a nation friendly to this Republic. Immediately after the ceremony of the mass, in which over 2,000 took part, the Reverend C. Georgiadis spoke. In a fatherly but businesslike address he brought out what the duties of the Greek businessmen of Chicago are toward those unwise Gre...

GREEK AMERICAN COMMUNISTS AND THE SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL STRIKE OF 1934 By Daniel Frontino Elash Published in the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, March 2007 - Volume 33 , pages 22-38 ----- DANIEL FRONTINO FLASH is a graduate student at San Francisco State University where he earned a BA degree in an interdisciplinary special major, Mediterranean Languages and History, which included the study of modern Greek, Italian, and Arabic. His graduate work focuses on American immigrant and labor history. ----- "While not exactly a household name, Nick Bordoise is a man of some importance to local and national labor history due to his violent death in the course of the 1934 longshoremen's strike in San Francisco. Due to the controversy then and now about the status of immigrants, especially those with radical political commitments, even those who do remember Bordoise do not necessarily remember that he was a Greek and a communist—two characterizations he wo...