Progressive Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview
Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates:
1932-1974
Progressive Mine Workers of America, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2609
Scope and Contents
Records of the Progressive Mine Workers of America.Boxes 1-36 include: convention proceedings, minutes, contracts and agreements, financial records, correspondence, mine inspectors' reports, and grievance files which make up the bulk of the records. In addition there are printed National Industrial Recovery Administration and National Recovery Administration documents on the coal industry and a microfilm copy of the union's newspaper, THE PROGRESSIVE MINER, 1932-53....
Dates:
1932-1965
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
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Elections 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Unions. 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Illinois. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Grievance cases - labor unions. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Illinois - Coal mining. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Labor unions - grievance cases. 1
- Labor unions - pension plans. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- Pension plans - labor unions. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Public utilities 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Taxation 1
- The Progressive Miner 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- United States Bureau of Mines - Inspectors' reports. 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
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