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United Mine Workers of America

 Organization

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates: 1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955

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 mining - Safety. 3
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 3
Coal mining. 3
Elections 3
Account books 2
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Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
Coal mining -- Strikes 2
Education 2
New Deal, 1933-1939 2
Union names. 2
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
World War, 1939-1945 2
Advertising 1
Church buildings 1
Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
Coal - Logan County. 1
Coal - Mine safety. 1
Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal - coal operators. 1
Coal - company stores. 1
Coal - labor disputes. 1
Coal - labor relations. 1
Coal - problems. 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 - 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 - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
Diaries and journals. 1
Editors - letters and papers. 1
Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Gas industry 1
Guffey Coal Act. 1
Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
Labor organization - Subversive Activities Control Board. 1
Labor organization - integration. 1
Lewis County. 1
Logan County - coal. 1
Logan County, W. Va. -- Public schools 1
Logan County. 1
Maps. 1
March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
New River coalfields. 1
Newspaper publishing 1
Newspapers. 1
Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
Politicians -- United States 1
Public institutions -- West Virginia 1
Public utilities 1
Railroads 1
Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
Schools - Logan County. 1
Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
Social Security -- United States 1
Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
Solvay Collieries. 1
Unions. 1
United States - Census returns. 1
United States - Social Security. 1
United States -- Politics and government 1
Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
West Virginia - public institutions. 1
West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1
World War, 1914-1918 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1
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