Utah Historical Quarterly Volume 43, Number 2, 1975

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COSTITUZIONE DELIA

SOCIETA* DI MUTUO SOCCORSO

Fratellanza Minatori SUNNYSIDE, UTAH STATC UNITI D'AMERICA

ORGANIZZATA IL 2 FEBBRAIO 1902 Uniti alia Federazione Colombiana delle Societa' Italo-Americane il giorno 2S del mese d'Aprile 1902 LOGGIA NO. 9 8

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Italian Fraternal Organizations in Utah, 1897-1934 BY P H I L I P F . N O T A R I A N N I

I M M I G R A N T S , SEEKING SECURITY among people who spoke their language and who could offer assistance with such exigent needs as finding work, were drawn to communities where sizeable numbers of their nationality resided. There they often found organizations and associations already founded by their countrymen for protection and improvement, within which they could gain an identity in a new environment fraught with uncertainties and prejudices. Mr. Notarianni is a doctoral student in history at the University of Minnesota.


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