United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1146
Scope and Contents
Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities. Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company. Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and...
Dates:
1809-1948
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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- Account books 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Colorado 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Maps. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Unions. 1
- West Virginia 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1 + ∧ less
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