United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Frank Stadlbauer, Collector, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1818
Overview
Coal miner of Monongalia County, West Virginia. The collection includes pay envelopes and records from the Rosedale Coal Co., Connellsville By-Product Coal Corp. and Kelley's Creek Colliery Co. There also are certificates of appointment for a second-class mine foreman and a check weighman, an official tally sheet for a UMWA election, bylaws of the Mountaineer Craftsmen's Cooperative Association, a grievance blank, production statistics (1920-1921) for the Rosedale Coal Co.'s No.2 mine, and...
Dates:
1919-1937
M.H. Ross, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1936
Scope and Contents
Material (1931-1957) of a labor organizer including correspondence, reports, handbills, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, instruction posters, political and labor buttons. There are court reports involving labor cases for the period 1940-1956. Subjects include Subversive Activities Control Board, integration in labor movement, labor during WW II, labor in southern U. S., communism in labor movement, union constitutions and agreement between industry and unions. See inventory for listing of...
Dates:
1931-1957
Winding Gulf Coals, Inc. Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1525
Overview
The collection consists of ledgers, journals, and cashbooks of the Goodwill Coal and Coke Co., Greenbrier Coal and Coke Co., Gulf Coal Co., Louisville Coal and Coke Co., Winding Gulf Coal and Coke Co., and the Winding Gulf Colliery Co., with some material on the operation of company stores. There is also correspondence (1911-1915) between the managers of mines at Winding Gulf and Davy, West Virginia, discussing production levels, availability of railroad cars and freight rates, New River and...
Dates:
1888-1950
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- Elections 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Railroads 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Fairmont. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining - disasters. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Davy. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Labor organization - Subversive Activities Control Board. 1
- Labor organization - integration. 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Socialism 1
- Taxation 1
- Transportation 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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