COAL MINING AND UNION ACTIVITIES PROJECT Frank Bertetti, a Superior Coal Company employee in Benld, Illinois, discusses the mine wars, United Mine Workers, Progressive Miners, and his participation in the Mulkeytown march. He discusses the ambush of PMA members on the Mulkeytown march, sit-down strikes, treatment of dissenters, the role of the mines and unions in the community, impact and resistance to competing unions, and working conditions at the mines. He discusses his later work as superintendent of schools and discusses his thoughts on education, communism, and political economy.

2 tapes, 180 min., 26 pp. Interview by Nick Cherniavsky, 1973 OPEN See collateral file See also B461.2*