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Scope and Contents Summary of notes: Frances was raised in a coal mining family and married a coal miner. She recalls her growing up years and schools, the pros and cons of living in company towns, some of the happier times of her life, picnics on weekends with friends, etc. She also relates the feelings of the union miners about their jobs, the companies, strikes and scab labor. She lamented that the strikers left mining after the strike and never got their pensions that they fought for - that the scab labors...