United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 4 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
George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview
Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates:
1895-1920
Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents
Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates:
1887-1962
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Account books 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Elections 3
- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- Railroads 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Diaries and journals. 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
- Taxation 2
- Unions. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Advertising 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Maps. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
∨ more