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Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 3)
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Retired coal miners, Claude and Lawrence Amicarella recount their coal mining days. They talk about working and living conditions and give examples of the prejudice held toward miners during the forties and fifties. They share their views on corrupt United Mine Workers officials, the incompetence of mine superintendents, bad management decisions, e.g. bringing in machinery that was too big for a mine. They believe that a free enterprise system should include the right to form labor unions and that all natural resources should be nationalized. They recall buying a company house, paying the weighman to be accurate, and surviving on low wages by working overtime. By comparison, they say, Western miners were highly mobile, while a sense of being stuck prevailed in the Eastern mining towns. It perplexes them why miners are considered "undesirables" when their lives were hard and their services indispensable.
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Retired coal miners, Claude and Lawrence Amicarella recount their coal mining days. They talk about working and living conditions and give examples of the prejudice held toward miners during the forties and fifties. They share their views on corrupt United Mine Workers officials, the incompetence of mine superintendents, bad management decisions, e.g. bringing in machinery that was too big for a mine. They believe that a free enterprise system should include the right to form labor unions and that all natural resources should be nationalized. They recall buying a company house, paying the weighman to be accurate, and surviving on low wages by working overtime. By comparison, they say, Western miners were highly mobile, while a sense of being stuck prevailed in the Eastern mining towns. It perplexes them why miners are considered "undesirables" when their lives were hard and their services indispensable.
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Begins on pg. 36 of first pdf transcript Amicarella1; 10:00 -- Lack of representation for modern coal miners in their unions (pg. 41 of pdf transcript); 20:00 -- Difficulties for modern miners, their experiences with new mining machinery (pg. 46 of pdf transcript); 30:00 -- Poor mining regulations can ruin mines and environment, for fast profit (pg. 51 of pdf transcript); 40:00 -- Management decisions caused poor working conditions for these miners (pg. 57 of pdf transcript); 50:00 -- Strike of 1927, the U.M.W.A and unions in the West (pg. 63 of pdf transcript); 60:00 -- Although mining is an honorable occupation, working conditions have never been good (pg. 67 of pdf transcript); Part 1 ends 66 min: Discussing black lung disease; Transcript, part 2: pg. 2 of pdf.
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