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
Teamsters Local 175, Scrapbook and Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2284
Overview
A scrapbook and personal diary of Volney Andrews, one-time president of Local 175, covering the years 1938-1949. There is material on disputes over the legitimacy of the AFL and the CIO especially as it was reflected in state regional labor councils and jurisdictional struggles in West Virginia between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Mine Workers of America. Also mentioned are political concerns such as elections, congressional investigations of labor and foreign trade...
Dates:
1938-1949
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- Account books 1
- Agriculture 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Grafton. 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Religion. SEE ALSO Churches. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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