Interview with Gus Cormons

Audio recording and transcript of Gus Cormons's 1979 interview with Barbara Graves for the Coal Tyee History Project. Cormons shares details about working in the Number 1 Esplanade Mine where he started in 1926 as a teenager. He talks about his wages and about early union activity in the 1930s. He recounts an injury to his hand that he received while working in the Number 8 Mine and he explains how he was compensated afterward. At the end of the interview, Cormons talks about his father who was also a coal miner.