NAME: ACKERLUND, LEONARD

BORN: Madrid, Iowa (1913)

DIED:

GENDER: m

INTERVIEWER: Zieren

DATE: 03/12/80

TOWN: DES MOINES

UNION: UMWA District 13

COMPANIES: Coal mining companies

TIME PERIOD: 1920s–1930s

INDEX

Ackerlund, Leonard, 1–39

African American workers––employment in coal mines, 21–22

African American workers––occupational segregation, 21–22

Arlington, Illinois, 1–3

Bootlegging, 5–6

Child labor––coal mining, 30

Coal mines––Boone County, 9–12

Coal mining camps, 3–6, 21–24, 37–38

Coal mining––child labor, 30

Coal mining––description of work (caging), 6–9, 12–21

Coal mining––description of work, 6–9, 12–21, 24–27, 30–35

Colfax, Iowa, 3–4

Depression (1930s)––impact on coal mining, 36–37

Discrimination, see African American workers

Holidays and celebrations––Labor Day, 37–38

Immigrant workers––employment in coal mines, 21

Immigrants––Swedish, 1–3

Labor unions––UMWA District 13, 36–39

Madrid, Iowa––b. 1913, 3

Madrid, Iowa, 3–37

Race relations––in Iowa towns, 21

Roosevelt, Franklin D––NRA, 37

Safety conditions––coal mining, 12–14, 27–35

UMWA District 13––meetings and membership, 36–39