| Title |
Chester Martin, Grand Junction, Colorado, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Alternative Title |
Chester Martin, Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Creator |
Martin, Chester |
| Contributor |
Engle, Clare |
| Date |
1970-07-23 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-04 |
| Access Rights |
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| Spatial Coverage |
Grand Junction, Mesa County, Colorado, United States |
| Subject |
Martin, Chester--Interviews; Uranium miners--Colorado--Interviews; Uranium mines and mining--Colorado |
| Keywords |
Union Carbide; Synthetic sapphire |
| Description |
Transcript (81 pages) of an interview by Clare Engle with Chester Martin, on July 23, 1970. From tape number UR-170 in the Utah Uranium Oral History Project |
| Abstract |
Clare Engel interviewed Martin in Grand Junction, Colorado. Subjects: employment with Union Carbide, the atomic bomb, peacetime uses of atomic energy, pollution, government compensation, AEC bonuses, economic ups and downs, small miners, investments, competition, contract miners, safety, the school and the mill, camp layout, unions and management, layoffs, cost of maintaining Uravan, company benefits, problems (81 pages). |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
81 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/s6vb0g49 |
| Topic |
Uranium miners; Uranium mines and mining |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Finding Aid |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03439/ |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056321 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vb0g49 |
| Title |
Page 34 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_uoh |
| ID |
1056270 |
| OCR Text |
Show CHESTER MARTIN #1 plateau during the boom years? CM: Well, naturally, you're affected in the labor market for one thing. As you get more operators, the labor situation becomes tighter, but it also attracts a larger number of people to the area. So in a way you attract people that work at one company and they may become disenchanted with some of their policies or they don't like a particular supervisor that they had or something, so they' re always place for employment. So it was We've always paid a fair wage looking to another not really too bad. and we had good, excellent employee plans. So, we've never really had any problem in getting enough people to work. CE: What about the land? Since you're involved in it. CM: Well, that became rather tough, and in the past 5 years, since about '65, we went into a program in the Edgar Plains area. For the first few months, we and another company, this Chapman and Moorhouse, we were engaged in leasing lands and we got along. We would see each other and we'd know where they were working and they 'd know where we were working and we both would go out and deal on practically the same basis and we got along fine. But then some of the oil companies started offering for oil coming in and they lands, while we were 31 were used to offering $2, |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6vb0g49/1056270 |
