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
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
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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- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Railroads 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Diaries and journals. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Elections 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
- Unions. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- Church buildings 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining - disasters. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Davy. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- New River coalfields. 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
- Raleigh County (W. Va.) 1
- Roads. SEE ALSO Turnpikes. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Socialism 1
- Taxation 1
- Transportation 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1 + ∧ less
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