| 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 96 |
| Format |
application/pdf |
| Setname |
uum_hoh |
| ID |
893065 |
| OCR Text |
Show OHI E&G Aguayo 3-12-85 s6:47 They don't - it's always been a practiceq:> there, if ·you follow it. Thatyou don't work unsafe. You know. The company - I- ... foremen will sometimes try to push something .. that isn't. Like I don't know how many electricians have gotten killed before they finally learn to lock up those boxes where nobody could throw switches. You know, before somebody would throw a switch. Someone .. else would come by and wonder why taht switch was down, he !.d turn it up. And somebody woul dbe working on the line. That' happened before. I remember a long time ago, well, when Ifirst started working. Well, they fhrew a switch. Why did they throw a switch_Well, they thought they~re done. Something like that. We used to have the railroad trains, the trolleys, so when they blast a trolley, -a tower would go down. So an electrician would have to go up, Put the tower back up. Put the wire. And the switches were at the end of the Evel. Well, the only way you had to communicate then was by whistles. Train whistles. Something like that. So one man would go up to the end of the thing, throw the switch down. Theother one would go down there, conenct them up there. And the --mistakeswould happen. They'd throw a switch on. They got caught alot of times like that. Now, electrician goingt owork, he puts alock on the box. And he's got the key and he unlocks it when it's done. IT took a awhile but it's never - what they say, you had to work on it. Just the fact that no communication. There was no- between |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s60w0kgs/893065 |
