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United Mine Workers of America

 Organization

Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:

Charles E. Boswell, Newspaper Editor, Essay regarding Miners at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0589
Overview

In an unpublished essay, Boswell, editor of the Labor Argus (Charleston's Socialist newspaper) describes the mining labor troubles at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. He adamantly opposes Governor Hatfield's settlement and the role of the UMWA in accepting it. In particular he castigates Thomas Haggerty, a field marshal for the union, for compromising with capitalists.

Dates: 1913-1985

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1604
Overview

Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.

Dates: 1795-1908

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957

Consolidation Coal Company Clippings

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3086
Overview

Weekly compilations of photocopied news clippings prepared by the publicity department of Consolidation Coal Company. The clippings are taken from a wide variety of newspapers and document to a limited extent the coal industry nationally. Principally, however, the clippings focus on issues directly related to the company, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America, relying mainly on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia newspapers.

Dates: 1976-1982

Dawson Coal Company Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2659
Scope and Contents Folder 1: pamphlet, OUTLINE OF WORK OF STATE BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS; broadside, AMERICA FIRST! YOUR GOVERNMENT, American Constitutional Association, Charleston, WV; catalogue of Cincinnati Pump Mfg. Co., n.d.; affidavits certifying ages of young men for employment; miscellaneous company correspondence concerning provision of non-union miners, job applications, engineering problems, and other mine business, including a letter from the Clarksburg Ku Klux Klan regarding...
Dates: 1917-1948

Doug Yarrow and Charlotte Yablonski Appalachian UMWA Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4533
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of papers and printed materials related to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and Black Lung Association. It also includes newspapers and legal documents related to the UMWA elections, Joseph A. Yablonski, Mingo County, and the protests against strip mining in Appalachia.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1943-1973; 1943-ca. 2004

Edgar B. Rowe Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1482
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence, decisions, and briefs of the umpire for the Northern West Virginia Coal Association, Big Sandy-Elkhorn Coal Operators Association, Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America.

Dates: 1950-1957

Frank Stadlbauer, Collector, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1818
Overview Coal miner of Monongalia County, West Virginia. The collection includes pay envelopes and records from the Rosedale Coal Co., Connellsville By-Product Coal Corp. and Kelley's Creek Colliery Co. There also are certificates of appointment for a second-class mine foreman and a check weighman, an official tally sheet for a UMWA election, bylaws of the Mountaineer Craftsmen's Cooperative Association, a grievance blank, production statistics (1920-1921) for the Rosedale Coal Co.'s No.2 mine, and...
Dates: 1919-1937

Fred Mooney Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1428
Scope and Contents Typescript and manuscript drafts of “The Life of Fred Mooney,” by himself, and a manuscript copy of "Shootin Straight" by J. F. Pennington. Mooney, one-time Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia United Mine Workers, relates his experience in the West Virginia labor movement, He covers the disturbances at Cabin and Paint Creek, 1912-1913; the abortive Miners March of 1919; the Matawan massacre of the Baldwin Felts detectives; the Miners Treason Trials in 1922; and a later dispute with John...
Dates: circa 1935

Additional filters:

Subject
Coal mining - Labor organization. 21
Union names. 18
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 18
Coal mining. 16
Coal miners 11
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Unions - UMWA. 11
Politics and government. 9
Account books 8
Coal mining -- Strikes 8
Coal mining - coal companies. 7
Elections 7
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 6
New Deal, 1933-1939 6
Unions. 6
Coal mining - Safety. 5
Taxation 5
World War, 1939-1945 5
Coal mining - Medical care. 4
Diaries and journals. 4
Labor 4
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
Mills and mill-work 4
Railroads 4
Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
Coal mines and mining 3
Editors - letters and papers. 3
Fairmont. 3
Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
Kentucky 3
Labor unions 3
Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
Logan County. 3
Marion County (W. Va.) 3
Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
Physicians - letters and papers. 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Agriculture 2
Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
Broadsides. 2
Coal - Mine safety. 2
Coal - coal operators. 2
Coal - labor disputes. 2
Coal industry. 2
Coal miners - Medical care. 2
Coal miners' trials. 2
Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
Coal mining - disasters. 2
Education 2
Gas industry 2
General stores 2
Health services. 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
Maps. 2
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
Miners' Treason Trials. 2
Mingo County (W. Va.) 2
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Socialism 2
Unions -- Coal 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Advertising 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Alabama 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Benham, Ky. -- Benham Employees Associations 1
Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
Builders and contractors. 1
Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
Charleston. 1
Church buildings 1
Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
Coal - Logan County. 1
Coal - Miners for Democracy. 1
Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal - company stores. 1
Coal - labor relations. 1
Coal - problems. 1
Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal miners' spouses 1
Coal miners--West Virginia 1
Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
Coal mines and mining -- Electric equipment 1
Coal mining - Illinois. 1
Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 1
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