“So they got tired of us being down there [Ludlow depot], and they lined us up along that concrete building they have got there, with our heels up against the building. We were there from a quart

"The pickets would get on this hill. At first they used to have drinking parties up there; 8 or 10 or 15 of them would get a small keg of beer and go up there and drink it, and when one would pass up and down Berwind Canyon or around the railroad track they would stop them- scabs and lots of others- and the companies and the people complained, and whenever a man came out they would ask him where he was going, and he would answer, 'Going to work.' And they would tell him, 'You keep drifting.'

I had instructions- I think I reported at first what they were doing, and I was instructed by Maj. Kennedy to arrest anyone I found on that hill, and I did. Every man in our detachment was instructed, when they found anyone on the hill, to arrest him. I told Maj. Kennedy to explain to those people over there that they must stay off that hill, and I told the men when I first arrested them that they must stay off that hill; that they were picketing; that they had no business there, and I had orders to arrest them."

Lt. Karl Linderfelt in testimony to the United States Commission on Industrial Relations (1916: 6885)