Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc.
Organization
Found in 2 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
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
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 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 - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1 + ∧ less
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