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 notes, photos of Little Dog Mine, and mining equipment; constitution and bylaws of the PMA, contract between the Coal Producers Association of Illinois and the PMA (1945-1947), program of the 1967 National First Aid and Mine Rescue Contest, photos and scrapbook on John Marchiando (head of the PMA), and newspaper articles on unions and John L. Lewis. See also B634.2*