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United Mine Workers of America

 Organization

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Edgar B. Rowe Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1482
Overview

This collection consists of correspondence, decisions, and briefs of the umpire for the Northern West Virginia Coal Association, Big Sandy-Elkhorn Coal Operators Association, Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America.

Dates: 1950-1957

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

Fred Mooney Manuscripts

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1428
Scope and Contents Typescript and manuscript drafts of “The Life of Fred Mooney,” by himself, and a manuscript copy of "Shootin Straight" by J. F. Pennington. Mooney, one-time Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia United Mine Workers, relates his experience in the West Virginia labor movement, He covers the disturbances at Cabin and Paint Creek, 1912-1913; the abortive Miners March of 1919; the Matawan massacre of the Baldwin Felts detectives; the Miners Treason Trials in 1922; and a later dispute with John...
Dates: circa 1935

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

Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates: 1913-1958

Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates: 1932-1974

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

Miners for Democracy Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2477
Overview

The collection consists of the "Proposed Rules of MFD Caucus", from District 3l, UMWA, and the transcribed testimony of Charles M. Culp, a West Virginia miner, given in Washington, D.C., on 18 February 1972 in an investigation of his retention by District 31 as campaign worker for the Boyle-Titler-Owens international slate in 1969. Culp's handwritten statement and other evidence are included with the testimony.

Dates: 1972

Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2628
Scope and Contents Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky, circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union. (2) Adam Getto, ...
Dates: circa 1932, 1970-1975

Pocahontas Operators Association, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates: 1941-1973

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Coal mining - Labor organization. 15
Coal mining. 7
Coal miners 4
Elections 4
Politics and government. 4
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Unions - UMWA. 4
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 3
Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
Account books 2
Coal mining - Medical care. 2
Coal mining - Safety. 2
Coal mining -- Strikes 2
Labor 2
New Deal, 1933-1939 2
Taxation 2
World War, 1914-1918 2
Advertising 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides. 1
Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
Charleston. 1
Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
Coal - Mine safety. 1
Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal - coal operators. 1
Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal industry. 1
Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal miners - Medical care. 1
Coal miners--West Virginia 1
Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
Coal mining - Illinois. 1
Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 1
Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 1
Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
Coal mining - coal companies. 1
Coal operators associations. 1
Editors - letters and papers. 1
Environmentalism. 1
Fairmont. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Gas industry 1
Grafton. 1
Grievance cases - labor unions. 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Illinois - Coal mining. 1
Kentucky 1
Labor organization - Subversive Activities Control Board. 1
Labor organization - integration. 1
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
Labor organizing, UMWA - Ohio. 1
Labor unions 1
Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
Labor unions - grievance cases. 1
Labor unions - pension plans. 1
Logan (W. Va.) 1
March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
Matawan Massacre 1
Matewan (W. Va.) 1
Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
Miners' Treason Trials. 1
Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
Newspaper publishing 1
Newspapers. 1
Ohio 1
Ohio - Labor organizing, UMWA. 1
Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
Pension plans - labor unions. 1
Physicians - letters and papers. 1
Politicians -- United States 1
Railroads 1
Rivers and river valleys. 1
Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
Solvay Collieries. 1
Strikes and lockouts 1
The Progressive Miner 1
UMWA District 6 - Unions. 1
Unions - National Miners Union. 1
Unions - Teamsters. 1
Unions -- Coal 1
Unions. 1
United States - Census returns. 1
United States -- Politics and government 1
United States Bureau of Mines - Inspectors' reports. 1
United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
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