Oral history interview with Feeney Busarello, 1975 March 3.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Oral history interview with Feeney Busarello, 1975 March 3.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31484754

Feeney Busarello was born into a coal mining family in Midway, Pennsylvania, and started to work in the mines when he was eleven. Mr. Busarello reminisces about "mining in the olden days," the Western Federation of Miners, the Industrial Workers of the World, World War I (during which he worked for the Fuel Administration), and the 1919 strike. As president of his local union in Hanna, Wyoming, he signed the first mechanical loading contract for a mine in the United States. In 1927 Mr. Busarello was sent east as an International organizer for the United Mine Workers in the Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania) district. He tells of violent conflict with the Ku Klux Klan, union-busting activities, internal union strife, and graft within the companies and the Mine Workers Union. When the CIO was formed, Phil Murray and the Steelworkers Organizing Committee sent Mr. Busarello to Aliquippa, Pennsylvania. He tells of the effort to win over the Employee Representation Plan (ERP) men and to negotiate with the company. He describes organizing efforts in Beaver County, Homestead, and Harrisburg.

Sound recordings: 3 sound cassettes (ca. 3 hrs.)Transcript: 64 leaves.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7319762

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

Related Entities

There are 7 Entities related to this resource.

Western Federation of Miners

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6061900 (corporateBody)

The Western Federation of Miners, which in 1916 became the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, was from its founding in 1893 to its merger into the United Steelworkers of America in 1967 the major American union in the nonferrous metals industry. The WFM was involved in many of the important labor disputes during the turbulent period from 1893-1915, including the two Cripple Creek strikes, the Leadville strike of 1896, the Coeur d'Alene labor troubles, the Goldfield, Nevada s...

Industrial Workers of the World

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jb0098 (corporateBody)

The IWW is a labor organization dedicated to uniting laborers around the world into a single large union. From the description of Collection 1916-1939. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 778701431 Established in Chicago in 1905 by sponsors of socialism and the remnants of previous labor unions, including the Knights of Labor, Western Federation of Miners and the American Labor Union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), or "Wobblies", evolved into a radical industrial unio...

Ku Klux Klan 1915-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6x38p5s (corporateBody)

The Ku Klux Klan was formally incorporated under the laws of the state of Georgia on Dec. 4, 1915. The incorporated organization is a continuance of the earlier post Civil War Reconstruction Era unincorporated Ku Klux Klan and of the Knights of the White Camellia. Women of the Ku Klux Klan was incorporated at a late date as a separate entity. The stated purpose of the KKK was to promote an all White, Protestant United States, excluding all other races and religions. From the descript...

United Steelworkers of America

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6c863vq (corporateBody)

The United Steelworkers of America (USWA) was established 22 May 1942, by a convention of representatives from the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel, and Tin Workers (AAISTW) and the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC) after an intensive organizing initiative by the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the 1930s. After mergers in 2005, it was renamed United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW...

Hoffman, Alice M., 1929-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67w6k6z (person)

Alice M. Hoffman, labor historian, labor educator, and oral historian was associate professor of labor studies at King of Prussia, Penn State in the 1970s. She supervised and conducted numerous oral history interviews as director of the Labor Oral History Project, served as an officer with the Oral History Association (1974 to 1976) and the Pennsylvania Labor History Society (ongoing), and joined Bryn Mawr College after retiring from Penn State. From the description of Alice M. Hoffm...

United Mine Workers of America. Pittsburgh District (Pa.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6b32tpm (corporateBody)

Busarello, Feeney, 1891-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6kw6h0j (person)

Retired staff, District 7, United Steelworkers of America. From the description of Oral history interview with Feeney Busarello, 1975 April 7. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31484744 From the description of Oral history interview with Feeney Busarello, 1975 September 24. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 31484871 From the description of Oral history interview with Feeney Busarello, 1975 March 3. (Pennsylva...