United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions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Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.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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- Advertising 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Kentucky 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Taxation 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
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