United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Mother Jones Typescript Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2778
Overview
Typescript memoir of the life of Mother Jones, entitled "Mother Jones: the Life Story of the Irish Immigrant Girl Who Became the Most Unique Character in the American Labor Movement, Living Past 100 Years," written by Lillie May Burgess of Hyattsville, Maryland, and copyrighted 8 February 1938. The manuscript is in two parts, several pages of which are missing. The first part (241pp.) is entitled "The Life Story of Mother Jones: American Labor's Joan of Arc," and is a narration of events in...
Dates:
1938
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2628
Scope and Contents
Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky, circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union.
(2) Adam Getto, ...
Dates:
circa 1932, 1970-1975
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- Agriculture 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Colorado 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- West Virginia 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1 + ∧ less
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