Smokeless Coal Operators Association
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Ernest Glenwood Otey (1895-1966) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1909
Overview
Correspondence, financial records, speeches, reports, blueprints, and pamphlets of a Bluefield banker and businessman who was a treasurer of the Democratic Executive Committee and a member of the Board of Governors of West Virginia University. Subjects include numerous businesses in the Bluefield area, Bluefield State College, Concord College, Bank of Bramwell, Island Creek Coal Company, Norfolk and Western Railroad, Pocahontas Fuel Company, Smokeless Operators Association, Virginia Railway,...
Dates:
1935-1965
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
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Historical Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0049
Overview
Production statistics and extracts from historical files of the Smokeless Coal Operators Association, also known as the Pocahontas Operators Association, including information regarding the Pocahontas Coal Co., Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co., Southern Coal Producers Association, Turkey Gap Coal and Coke Co., Ennis Coal Co., Aileen Coal Co., Buckeye Coal & Coke Co., and the Pocahontas Fuel Co. There is a brief history of the coal industry in West Virginia, 1800-1951, and a typescript...
Dates:
1886-1961
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1564
Scope and Contents
“The Smokeless Coal Fields of West Virginia: A Brief History” by W.P. Tams, Jr. Printed in 1963.
Dates:
1931
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
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 5
- Coal mining. 5
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 2
- Unions. 2
- Account books 1
- Banks - Bank of Bramwell. 1
- Banks and banking 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
- Landgraff, W.Va. 1
- Maps. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Norfolk, V.A. 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas V.a. 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Smokeless Coal Industrial Exhibition. 1
- Snowville, V.A. 1
- Taxation 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- Universities and colleges 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
- Women's history -- 1929-1950 1
- Women's history -- 1951-present 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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