Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.)
Organization
Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:
Huett Nestor, Compiler, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1885
Overview
Archives of the Fairmont Labor Temple, 1921-1940, including certificate of incorporation, bylaws, financial records, minutes, and correspondence. There are also notes on the labor movement in Marion County, compiled by Huett Nestor, concerning the membership and officers of local unions, and a list of "Prominent Members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. from Marion County."
Dates:
1921-1940, 1963
Panoramic Photographs Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4168
Overview
Collection of over 110 panoramic photographs documenting soldiers and military camps, conventions and meetings, West Virginia University (WVU), businesses, railroads, family reunions, and more. Types of image include group portraits, landscapes, and building photographs. Conventions and meetings include the WV Delegates to Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Convention, the 13th Annual Meeting of the WV Dairymen's Association, the Democratic National Convention, the WV State...
Dates:
1890-2008; Majority of material found within 1890-1960
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates:
1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Teamsters Local 175, Scrapbook and Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2284
Overview
A scrapbook and personal diary of Volney Andrews, one-time president of Local 175, covering the years 1938-1949. There is material on disputes over the legitimacy of the AFL and the CIO especially as it was reflected in state regional labor councils and jurisdictional struggles in West Virginia between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Mine Workers of America. Also mentioned are political concerns such as elections, congressional investigations of labor and foreign trade...
Dates:
1938-1949
Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview
UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates:
1908-1961
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview
The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates:
1897-1972
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.
Dates:
1905-1959
West Virginia State Industrial Union Council, CIO, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1380
Scope and Contents
The West Virginia State Industrial Union Council was formed in 1937 as the state labor federation for local unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1958, the WVIUC merged with the State Federation of Labor to form the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Included in these two accessions are the correspondence, legal papers, reports, and printed materials of the Industrial Union Council’s president's office, between 1940 and 1951. Subjects include...
Dates:
1940-1951
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- Elections 5
- New Deal, 1933-1939 5
- Union names. 5
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 5
- Politics and government. 3
- Taxation 3
- Unions. 3
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 3
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Alabama 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
- Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
- Labor unions 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Military camps 1
- Montana 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Public utilities 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Tennessee 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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