United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Funds, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2769
Scope and Contents
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) archives consists of the records of the first industry-wide pension and medical care plans for coal miners and their families in the United States. The archives comprise approximately 156 linear feet of records from the years 1946-1974, and include minutes, resolutions, correspondence, memos, reports, transcribed speeches, lawsuit documents, construction plans, contracts, statistical reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, microfilmed reading...
Dates:
1915-1989
United Mine Workers of America, Local Union 6046, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2680
Overview
Minutes, correspondence, grievance case files, and union campaign material of union locals in the New River field. The correspondence concerns implementation of national bituminous coal mine contracts, local 6046's members' benefits, safety and working conditions in the Lochgelly mine, and state and federal legislation sought by the UMW. The minutes of Local 6046 meetings summarize all matters discussed and acted on, including reports from the local's mine and safety committees, expenses,...
Dates:
ca. 1933-1974
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Coal - Mine safety. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Health services. 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Silicosis 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds - copayment system. 1
- Virginia 1
- Vocational rehabilitation 1 + ∧ less
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