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| Title | Lidster, Stuart - Interview and Memoir |
| Subject |
British-Americans Coal Mines and Mining Coal Mines and Mining--Strikes and Lockouts, "Mine Wars" Emigration and Immigration Progressive Miners of America (PMA) United Mine Workers (UMW) |
| Description | Lidster, coal miner, discusses his career as a coal miner in central Illinois: his immigration to America from England, family life, the mine wars of the 1930's between the Progressives and the UMW, his jobs above and below ground. Also discusses mine safety, different qualities of coal, and WWI and WWII. |
| Creator | Lidster, Stuart b. 1907 |
| Contributing Institution | Oral History Collection, Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield |
| Contributors | Corley, Kevin [interviewer] |
| Date | 1985 |
| Type | text; sound |
| Digital Format | PDF; MP3 |
| Identifier | L619 |
| Language | en |
| Relation | ILLINOIS COAL: THE LEGACY OF AN INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY |
| Rights | © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html |
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| Title | Stuart Lidster Memoir |
| Source | Stuart Lidster Memoir.pdf |
| Rights | © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html |