William Durbin
After his family emigrates from Finland to Minnesota, Otto Peltonen and his father work in the dangerous iron ore mines of the Mesabi Range. There, in the face of discrimination from the foremen, who accept bribes for the prime mining spots, Otto and his father take part in the beginnings of the labor unionization.
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The Journal of Otto Peltonen: A Finnish Immigrant, Hibbing, Minnesota, 1905