United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Gauley Mountain Coal Company Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1921
Overview
The collection consists of a letter from William N. Page, organizer of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, concerning dangers in mining; abstracts of land titles granted to Robert Morris in 1795; World War II production statistics for the company; copy of a contract between the company, the United Mine Workers of America, and the Charleston General Hospital for hospitalization of miners and their families; letter outlining the life of Robert Hamilton Morris, director of the American Institute...
Dates:
1908-1951
Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents
Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates:
1887-1962
M.H. Ross, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1936
Scope and Contents
Material (1931-1957) of a labor organizer including correspondence, reports, handbills, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, instruction posters, political and labor buttons. There are court reports involving labor cases for the period 1940-1956. Subjects include Subversive Activities Control Board, integration in labor movement, labor during WW II, labor in southern U. S., communism in labor movement, union constitutions and agreement between industry and unions. See inventory for listing of...
Dates:
1931-1957
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
Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview
Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates:
1938-1967
Filtered By
- Subject: Coal mining - Safety. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining. 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Taxation 3
- Account books 2
- Coal - Mine safety. 2
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Church buildings 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - company stores. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal - labor relations. 1
- Coal - problems. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal miners - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - disasters. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Elections 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Labor organization - Subversive Activities Control Board. 1
- Labor organization - integration. 1
- Land. 1
- Logan County - coal. 1
- Logan County, W. Va. -- Public schools 1
- Logan County. 1
- Maps. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Public institutions -- West Virginia 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools - Logan County. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- West Virginia - public institutions. 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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