Winding Gulf Operators Association
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Account books 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Education 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Logan County. 1
- Maps. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Taxation 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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