Winding Gulf 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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Unions. X
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- Subject
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Logan County. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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