Pocahontas Operators Association
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Pocahontas Operators Association, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview
The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates:
1941-1973
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1830
Scope and Contents
Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies...
Dates:
1800 (1952-1961)
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Landgraff, W.Va. 1
- Norfolk, V.A. 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas V.a. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Snowville, V.A. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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