United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
United Mine Workers of America, Local Union 6046, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2680
Overview
Minutes, correspondence, grievance case files, and union campaign material of union locals in the New River field. The correspondence concerns implementation of national bituminous coal mine contracts, local 6046's members' benefits, safety and working conditions in the Lochgelly mine, and state and federal legislation sought by the UMW. The minutes of Local 6046 meetings summarize all matters discussed and acted on, including reports from the local's mine and safety committees, expenses,...
Dates:
ca. 1933-1974
Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview
Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates:
1938-1967
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- Coal - Mine safety. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Taxation 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Account books 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - company stores. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal - labor relations. 1
- Coal - problems. 1
- Coal miners - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Labor organization - Subversive Activities Control Board. 1
- Labor organization - integration. 1
- Logan County - coal. 1
- Logan County, W. Va. -- Public schools 1
- Logan County. 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Public institutions -- West Virginia 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Schools - Logan County. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- West Virginia - public institutions. 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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