United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
- Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
- Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
- Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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