United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions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Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
- Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
- Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
- Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Trials. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1 + ∧ less
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