Scope and Contents Boetta, coal miner, discusses mining at the Little Dog Mine at Gillespie, Illinois and the Progressive Miners of America. He also discusses changes in mining technology, working conditions, safety developments, miners' wages and hours, the use of mules in the mines, and miners in his family. 1 tapes, 61 min., 27 pp. Interview by H. Dean Campbell, c. 1983 RESTRICTED: Memoir may be read in UIS Archives only. No circulating copy. See collateral file: interviewer's...

Scope and Contents

Golab, Czechoslovakian immigrant, recalls the violence between the Progressive Miners of America and the United Mine Workers Union during the 1930's. He also discusses mine working conditions, equipment and procedures, jobs at the mines, and the 1933 strike by members of the U.M.W.

1 tape, 65 mins., 27 pp. Interview by Dean Campbell, 1971 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and photocopies of miners' time sheets.

Scope and Contents

Hamlin recalls his years working in the coal mines of Illinois and discusses mine operations and structures, mine conditions, hazards, union activities, wages and working hours, black lung disease, and relations between miners.

1 tape, 29 mins., 17 pp. Interview by H. Dean Campbell, 1972 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents

Hughes, coal miner and former International President of the Progressive Miners of America, discusses working conditions in the mines, mining technology and methods, formation of the PMA Union, violence between unions, company stores and housing, occupational hazards, and safety equipment. 1 tape, 65 mins., 23 pp. Interview by H. Dean Campbell, 1972 OPEN See collateral file: interviewer's notes and a sketch of mine tunnels See also H874.2

Scope and Contents

Yoakum, coal miner, recalls his career with the Peabody Coal Company: mining conditions, use of mules, mechanization, wages, ethnicity, the structure of mines, and blasting coal.

1 tape, 60 mins., 25 pp. Interview by H. Dean Campbell, 1972 OPEN See collateral file