Detail View: Colorado Coal Project: Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 3)

Collection Name: 
Colorado Coal Project
Title: 
Coal mining in Weld County (Part 2 of 3)
Creator: 
Margolis, Eric, 1947-
Creator URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n00101170
Creator: 
McMahan, Ronald L.
Creator URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no94033808
Subject: 
Coal mines and mining
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/865355
Subject: 
Coal miners--Labor unions--Colorado
Subject: 
Columbine Mine (Weld County, Colo.)
Subject URI: 
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2005004870
Subject: 
Coal miners--Health and hygiene--United States
Subject: 
Free enterprise--Public opinion--United States
Subject: 
Quality of life--United States--History
Subject: 
Coal miners--Personal narratives
Subject: 
Retirees
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1096254
Subject: 
Interviews
Subject URI: 
http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423832
Description: 
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.
Description Type: 
summary
Description: 
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.
Description Type: 
Segment sequence
Publisher: 
University of Colorado Boulder Archives
Contributor: 
Amicarella, Claude 1911-1986
Contributor: 
Amicarella, Lawrence 1902-1988
Date: 
1978-02-21
Type: 
Moving image
Format: 
video/mov
Identifier: 
133-Amicarella.mov
Identifier ARK: 
https://ark.colorado.edu/ark:/47540/2s116738r5q0
Language: 
English
Relation: 
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Coverage (Spatial): 
Boulder County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)
Coverage (Temporal): 
1920/1978
Coverage (Spatial): 
Colorado (United States, North America) (first order administrative divisions)
Coverage (Spatial): 
Columbine Mine (Weld, Colorado, United States, North America) (mine)
Coverage (Spatial): 
Weld County (Colorado, United States, North America) (civil)