Winding Gulf Operators Association
Organization
Found in 2 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
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- Account books 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 - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Education 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Maps. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 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. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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