Interview with coal miner John Scarcella, undated

Partial Transcript: JOHN SCARCELLA: (unintelligible) you nearly pensioner. You don't go back and work in the mine.

Segment Synopsis: John Scarcella discusses his difficulty trying to get his job in a coal mine back as an older man. He talks about Social Security.

Subjects: Coal miners; Social security

Partial Transcript: M. H. ROSS: Yeah, sure. In or out of the mine.

Segment Synopsis: Scarcella talks about a man who died in a coal mine where he worked. He talks about being in the miners' hospital with an injury and describes the treatment he received there. He describes receiving compensation in the form of scrip from the mining company.

Subjects: Coal miners--Death; Coal miners--Medical care

Partial Transcript: SAM SCARCELLA: You come home.

Segment Synopsis: Scarcella talks about having to pay back rent and bills to the mining company after getting out of the hospital. His son Sam provides more details about the accident that put Scarcella in the hospital.

Subjects: Coal miners

Partial Transcript: M. H. ROSS: -- yeah, ask him about that.
JOHN SCARCELLA: Long time ago --

Segment Synopsis: Scarcella mentions fights between coal miners. Ross sings an Italian union song and asks Scarcella if he knows it.

Subjects: Coal miners; Labor unions

Partial Transcript: SAM SCARCELLA: You say, here come Owens?

Segment Synopsis: Scarcella's son talks about his father's memories of other mining accidents. He discusses his father's habits of reading by lamplight. Ross asks Scarcella about his familiarity with Italian labor organizer Carlo Tresca and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Subjects: Coal mine accidents; Reading; Sacco-Vanzetti Trial (Dedham, Massachusetts : 1921)

Partial Transcript: SAM SCARCELLA: -- remember the Ku Klux Klan were here.

Segment Synopsis: Scarcella talks about anarchists who killed the president of France. He compares anarchists and socialists.

Subjects: Anarchism; Ku Klux Klan (1915- ); Socialism

Partial Transcript: SAM SCARCELLA: You remember 1918? [Hickenbottom] (unintelligible)?

Segment Synopsis: Scarcella talks about a man who worked as superintendent of a mine during World War I(?).

Subjects: World War (1914-1918)