COAL MINING AND UNION ACTIVITIES PROJECT Ozanic, coal miner, discusses various aspects of coal mining during the early and mid 20th century and especially mining unions: the conflict between the Progressive Miners of America and United Mine Workers of America, the mine wars and martyrs, John L. Lewis, Mother Jones, Frank Farrington, the American Federation of Labor, Virden riot, marches on Mulkeytown and Coulterville, mine work, mine conditions and disasters, improvements in the mines, federal government involvement, the Guffy-Vinson Coal Act and his work for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

13 tapes, 1170 mins., 3 vols., 351 pp. Interviews by Rex Rhodes, 1972; Barbara Herndon and Nick Cherniavsky, 1974 RESTRICTED: Open memoir, tape restricted. See collateral file: interviewer's notes, photos, maps, articles, and a copy of Midnight at Noon by James Krohe, Jr. See also J9/5/24 for additional collateral files.