A guide to characters in "Under Ground"

Fictional characters

• Aino, a Finnish miner.
• Gene Baker, sheriff's deputy.
• Milo Blatnik, boarder in the Kovich boarding house.
• Toivo Eskola, miner.
• Susan Fletcher, sporting girl at Torelli's Boarding House.
• Ina, Maria, Leppe and Briana, sporting girls at Torelli's Boarding House.
• Moose Jackson, the bouncer at Torelli's.
• Old Joe, boarder in the Kovich boarding house.
• Quincy Johnson, reporter, Duluth Labor News.
• Johan Koski, strike committee member.
• Anton Kovich, Katka's uncle, who gives her a place to live.
• Katka Kovich, a Slovenian immigrant who ends up living on the Iron Range in Minnesota.
• Lily Kovich, Anton's wife.
• Andre Kristeva, a Bulgarian clerk for the mining company and strike committee member.
• Andy Lamppi, soda pop peddler.
• Harris Maki, heavy equipment operator at the mine and striker.
• John Logan, a deputy
• Avi Nurmi, wife of Hans Nurmi.
• Hans Nurmi, victim of a beating and shooting by the sheriff's men.
• Dr. Payne, a doctor used by the miners.
• Eli Sandinski, a deputy.
• Paul Schmidt, International Workers of the World (IWW) organizer who accompanies Katka to America.
• Adeline Sherek, the midwife.
• Mr. Augustine Stone, an owner of the Oliver Mining Company.
• Sheriff Archibald Turner, the town sheriff.
• William Jarvi, member of the Finnish Socialist Hall.
• Leo, Ana and Danko Zalar, immigrants who gave Milo Blatnik a place to live when he first arrived.
• Mrs. Zalinsky, an immigrant mother who shares space in steerage with Katka.
• Grete, Mrs. Zalinsky's daughter.
• Samo Zupitz, a miner.

Historical figures of the era, who appear in fictionalized roles