United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Charles E. Boswell, Newspaper Editor, Essay regarding Miners at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0589
Overview
In an unpublished essay, Boswell, editor of the Labor Argus (Charleston's Socialist newspaper) describes the mining labor troubles at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. He adamantly opposes Governor Hatfield's settlement and the role of the UMWA in accepting it. In particular he castigates Thomas Haggerty, a field marshal for the union, for compromising with capitalists.
Dates:
1913-1985
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
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
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
Matewan Massacre Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2962
Overview
Correspondence between Harold Houston, chief attorney for UMWA District 17 and Floyd Evans of the legal firm of Evans and Sampselle concerning trials after the "Matewan Massacre." Legal affidavits pertaining to the miners' trials of 1922 in Charles Town, West Virginia and to the Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co. and Hitchman Coal and Coke Company's suits against John L. Lewis and John Mitchell of the UMWA. Proclamations of Governor E.F. Morgan concerning the 1921 Mingo County mine strikes. An...
Dates:
1914-1934
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
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
UMWA, Miners Right To Strike Committee Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3660
Overview
Records of the Miners Right To Strike Committee, a group affiliated with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), documenting a strike against the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association (BCOA) in 1977 that resulted in a 1978 contract. Collection includes bulletins, handbills, newsletters, and other material issued by the Committee. Also includes "Statement of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association (BCOA), presented at the First Session of the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement...
Dates:
1976-1978; Majority of material found within 1977-1978
Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview
UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates:
1908-1961
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- Subject: Coal mining -- Strikes X
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- Coal mining -- Strikes 8
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 6
- Coal mining. 5
- Unions - UMWA. 3
- Account books 2
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal miners 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Socialism 2
- Taxation 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alabama 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 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' spouses 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - 1912-1913. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining - disasters. 1
- Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
- Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
- Colorado 1
- Davy. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education 1
- Elections 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Kansas 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions 1
- Maps. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Tennessee 1
- Transportation 1 + ∧ less
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