Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc.
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Fred Mooney Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1428
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript drafts of “The Life of Fred Mooney,” by himself, and a manuscript copy of "Shootin Straight" by J. F. Pennington. Mooney, one-time Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia United Mine Workers, relates his experience in the West Virginia labor movement, He covers the disturbances at Cabin and Paint Creek, 1912-1913; the abortive Miners March of 1919; the Matawan massacre of the Baldwin Felts detectives; the Miners Treason Trials in 1922; and a later dispute with John...
Dates:
circa 1935
Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents
Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates:
1887-1962
Labor Argus, Article Transcripts Regarding Cabin Creek and Paint Creek Coal Strikes
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3272
Overview
Transcription of articles from The Labor Argus about incidents pertaining to the Cabin Creek and Paint Creek coal strikes. The activities of the Baldwin-Felts detective agency are frequently reported, as well as the imposition of martial law by state authorities.
Dates:
1912-1913
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview
Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates:
1825-1934
Matewan Trial Transcript
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3608
Overview
Incomplete court reporter's transcript of the Matewan Trial. This document records testimony bearing upon the event known as the "Matewan Massacre" that occurred on May 19, 1920 on the streets of Matewan, Mingo County. This brief but deadly encounter between local authorities and Baldwin-Felts detectives triggered a chain of events that led to an armed conflict between mine owners and their workers, resulting in the largest armed insurrection in post bellum American history. The transcript...
Dates:
1921
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- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Matewan (W. Va.) 2
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 2
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 2
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 2
- Account books 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Education 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor Argus. 1
- Maps. 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Taxation 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1 + ∧ less
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