| Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
William Everett & Marge Haldane, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Everett, William; Haldane, Marge |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-08-04 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Everett, William--Interviews; Haldane, Marge--Interviews; Vanadium industry--United States; Uranium industry--United States; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide |
| Description |
Transcript (62 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with William Everett and Marge Haldane, on August 4, 1970. From tape number UR-179 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engle interviewed the Haldanes in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: uranium plants in the 1940s, army engineers, Manhattan district, exploration program and the VCA, the boom, fixed scales and unfair pricing, conflict with oil leases, Mr. Burwell, the demise of VCA, the town of Uravan, Doc Haldane, family situation, politics and unions, crime, individual miners (62 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
44 pages |
| Language |
eng |
| Rights |
 |
| Rights Holder |
For further information please contact Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah at spcreference@lists.utah.edu or (801)581-8863 or 295 South 1500 East, 4th Floor, Salt Lake City, Utah 84112 |
| Scanning Technician |
Mazi Rakhsha |
| Conversion Specifications |
Original scanned with Kirtas 2400 and saved as 400 ppi uncompressed TIFF. PDF generated by Adobe Acrobat Pro X for CONTENTdm display |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6156q49 |
| Topic |
Uranium industry; Vanadium industry; Vanadium Corporation of America |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055417 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49 |
| Title |
Page 60 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1055409 |
| OCR Text |
Show MR. AND MRS. WILLIAM EVERETT HALDANE #1 is a large proportion of laboring class people. You probably know this, but in my studies of company towns I've run into this statistic which didn't surprise me too much, but I have heard from someone else that it was equally divided. But I didn't know, you know, whether that was so or not and I kind of would like to get a concensus because the more people to talk with the more your realize there isn't a concensus about these things, which will make it much more difficult to write about. What about the unions? WH: Well, when I was assistant, assistant mill superintendent there at the pilot plant, there were some that were beginning to agitate and start organizing. Smokey Kessler, and I remember Smokey because we used to play on the baseball team together and there was union agitation, or organizing agitation, but I wasn't, other than that one time with Smokey I wasn't concerned with any of it. CE: Is he still there? WH: No, I don't know--why, I don't have any idea what happened to Smokey. I haven't heard from him for many, many years. However, when I was first in the office down here in Junction on the Army contract we had a fellow come in from the National Labor Relations Board, and boy talk about an outright crank 56 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6156q49/1055409 |
