Interview with Constance Jones Price
In this interview, Constance Price talks about the efforts of her father, Walter W. Jones, to organize for the UMWA in Alabama. Price says the family came to Birmingham because prominent mine leader John L. Lewis asked her father to help organize the coal miners in the area. She recalls that her fat...
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In this interview, Constance Price talks about the efforts of her father, Walter W. Jones, to organize for the UMWA in Alabama. Price says the family came to Birmingham because prominent mine leader John L. Lewis asked her father to help organize the coal miners in the area. She recalls that her father's life was often in jeopardy because of his work organizing the union, but she says the whites usually looked after him, helped keep him safe. Price says she was always aware that her father was in danger. She remembers many nights when he was hiding out and wasn't able to come home, and her mother and the children would cry. They also worried when he had to go into the mines with inspectors because they had heard about the awful conditions and they had seen the fall out from mine accidents. She says Jones himself didn't do much mining in his lifetime; he was there because his father had been a miner. In fact, Jones urged his children to stay out of the mines. Price also talks briefly about living through the Depression, which she calls The Panic. She remembers the bread lines, but she says her family didn't go on relief. They raised animals and had a garden.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries. |
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Interview with Constance Jones PricePrice, Constance Jones (Interviewee); Kuhn, Cliff (Interviewer)Sound; Text1984 July 18engelectronic; image/jpeg; 2 audio cassettes; 2 transcriptsIn this interview, Constance Price talks about the efforts of her father, Walter W. Jones, to organize for the UMWA in Alabama. Price says the family came to Birmingham because prominent mine leader John L. Lewis asked her father to help organize the coal miners in the area. She recalls that her father's life was often in jeopardy because of his work organizing the union, but she says the whites usually looked after him, helped keep him safe. Price says she was always aware that her father was in danger. She remembers many nights when he was hiding out and wasn't able to come home, and her mother and the children would cry. They also worried when he had to go into the mines with inspectors because they had heard about the awful conditions and they had seen the fall out from mine accidents. She says Jones himself didn't do much mining in his lifetime; he was there because his father had been a miner. In fact, Jones urged his children to stay out of the mines. Price also talks briefly about living through the Depression, which she calls The Panic. She remembers the bread lines, but she says her family didn't go on relief. They raised animals and had a garden.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.Price, Constance Jones --Interviews; interviews; transcriptsUnited States--Alabama--Jefferson County--BirminghamThe University of Alabama Libraries Special CollectionsWorking Lives Oral History Projectu0008_0000003_0000055http://purl.lib.ua.edu/54333Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.http://cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/223 |
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