United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
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
George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview
Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates:
1895-1920
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
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
Miners for Democracy Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2477
Overview
The collection consists of the "Proposed Rules of MFD Caucus", from District 3l, UMWA, and the transcribed testimony of Charles M. Culp, a West Virginia miner, given in Washington, D.C., on 18 February 1972 in an investigation of his retention by District 31 as campaign worker for the Boyle-Titler-Owens international slate in 1969. Culp's handwritten statement and other evidence are included with the testimony.
Dates:
1972
Miners' Treason Trials, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0979
Overview
The collection consists of case papers for the trials of coal miners and UMWA leaders, indicted for treason in connection with the armed march into Logan County, West Virginia, during August and September, 1921. The main part of the papers concern the trials of Walter Allen, William Blizzard, C. Frank Keeney, Rev. J.E. Wilburn, and John Wilburn. There are also photocopies of an indictment dated 17 September 1921 and an indictment dated 12 January 1922, as well as other court records...
Dates:
1921-1923
Miscellaneous Records Regarding History of the Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3836
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous records regarding history of the coal industry. Types of records include correspondence. See "Scope and Content Note" for additional information regarding material within the collection.
Dates:
1934-1937
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
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- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 15
- Coal mining. 7
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- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Labor unions 2
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
- Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads 2
- Taxation 2
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 2
- Unions - UMWA. 2
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- Unions. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
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- Advertising 1
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- Broadsides. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
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- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
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- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal miners - Medical care. 1
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- 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
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining - disasters. 1
- Colorado 1
- Davy. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Grievance cases - labor unions. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Illinois - Coal mining. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kansas 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor organizing, UMWA - Ohio. 1
- Labor unions - grievance cases. 1
- Labor unions - pension plans. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
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