| Title |
Esperanza and Gavino Aguayo, No. 2, Hispanic Oral Histories, Accn 1369 |
| Creator |
Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932-; Aguayo, Gavino |
| Contributor |
Kelen, Leslie G., 1949- |
| Date |
1985-02-06 |
| Date Digital |
2016-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage |
Bingham, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States |
| Subject |
Mexican Americans--Utah--Interviews; Aguayo, Esperanza, 1932- --Interviews; Aguayo, Gavnio--Interviews; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Access Rights |
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| Keywords |
WWII; World War II |
| Description |
Transcript (102 pages) of part 2 of 2 of interviews by Leslie Kelen with Esperanza and Gavnio Aguayo, on February 6, 1985 and February 25, 1985. |
| Collection Number and Name |
ACCN 1369, Hispanic Oral Histories, 1984-1987 |
| Abstract |
The interview continues with Gavino's being drafted in 1943 at the age of eighteen and sent to New Zealand. He talks about combat in New Guinea and the Philippines, the behavior of conquered Japanese during occupation, and the condition of Japanese cities. Other topics covered include women working for Kennecott, postwar working conditions at the mine, unions and strikes, being evicted from company houses to make room for mine expansion, employment practices at Kennecott, Father Miersman, accidents and safety, family marriage customs, and Mormon religion and culture. |
| Type |
Text |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Extent |
123 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 |
| Relation |
http://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv46923 |
| 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/s60w0kgs |
| Topic |
Mexican Americans; World War (1939-1945); Kennecott Copper Corporation; Emigration and immigration--Social aspects |
| Genre |
oral histories (literary works) |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893095 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs |
| Title |
Page 87 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893056 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-12-85 sS:38 there really wasn't tha t movement. Ah . L What was the work of the ma c hine s hop . GA Oh, be whole machine shop itself , you f i x locomotives, which is --not only with l and drill presses and e v erything like that. Youhad aboiler maker shop that done all their work- do all the fabricating, whatever, mostly like building things like - we called them shacks, cause they're little houses or -whatever . Riveting, you know, welding and all that. And then you had an electrical shop that's down here rewinding a · motor. At that time, they used to rewind their - electric ·:motors and all that. Everything tat's in a regular machine shop. Like I said, lathes, nails, ah whatever it takes to turn metal - you know, t omake things. Like blacksmith shops. To make all the tools we made. Chisels. Spikes. Not spikes with the buggy bars. Things like whenever you had to work with bend metal or to straighten out. Everything up there as big as a yard, they get bent at some time or another. Youhave two trains hitting togehter and they'll bend. Which happened alot of times. So you take everything apart. You straighten them ~t. You put them together. Thingslike that. The same thing with the shovels. The shovels wear out, you put in new bearings,you put in new rollers, you put in new dipper S(tips. The bucket itself, you know, the one that picksup the girds-saw is getting wore out. Have to realign -- L You pretty much try to keep the whole thing running - that was theresponsibilty~ GA Not mine-but yeah, with all the shop, you do. My job was actually just to repair them. The shovel part. The big s hove ls. That was |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/893056 |
