Latinos at the Kennecott Copper Mine

Miriam B. Murphy History Blazer, November 1996 During the copper strike of 1912 Utah Copper Company brought many Mexican and Mexican American strikebreakers to the Bingham mine. According to historian Vicente V. Mayer, most of them did not remain after the settlement of the strike. Company records reveal, though, that by 1918-19 large numbers of Spanish-surnamed individuals began to be …