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Description
The Italian Mutual Aid Society, Carl Marx Chapter was created by Italian miners in West Mineral to serve as a social and mutual aid society starting in 1906 according to the society’s ledger. This society helped hurt miners and their families, as well as families of miners killed while working in Southeast Kansas mines. Groups like these would go on to become unions, the members being important in negotiations with mine owners for better working conditions and benefits such as pay or money that went to the injured or the families of those killed in the mines. Examples from this specific society include giving funds to the widow of a worker who died in a mining accident due to the fault of the mine owners.
Publication Date
7-2024
Disciplines
Italian Language and Literature | Labor History | Social History
Dates of Collection
1906, 1990-2009
Manuscript Number
MS 436
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Recommended Citation
McDowell, Brent, "Italian Mutual Aid Society of West Mineral Collection" (2024). Finding Aids. 456.
https://digitalcommons.pittstate.edu/fa/456
