United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1604
Overview
Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.
Dates:
1795-1908
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
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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- Elections 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Mills and mill-work 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- Unions. 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Railroads 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Fairmont (W. Va.) 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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