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United Mine Workers of America

 Organization

Found in 32 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

Dawson Coal Company Collection

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2659
Scope and Contents Folder 1: pamphlet, OUTLINE OF WORK OF STATE BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS; broadside, AMERICA FIRST! YOUR GOVERNMENT, American Constitutional Association, Charleston, WV; catalogue of Cincinnati Pump Mfg. Co., n.d.; affidavits certifying ages of young men for employment; miscellaneous company correspondence concerning provision of non-union miners, job applications, engineering problems, and other mine business, including a letter from the Clarksburg Ku Klux Klan regarding...
Dates: 1917-1948

Doug Yarrow and Charlotte Yablonski Appalachian UMWA Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4533
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of papers and printed materials related to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and Black Lung Association. It also includes newspapers and legal documents related to the UMWA elections, Joseph A. Yablonski, Mingo County, and the protests against strip mining in Appalachia.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1943-1973; 1943-ca. 2004

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

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Coal mining - Labor organization. 18
Union names. 18
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 18
Coal mining. 11
Unions - UMWA. 11
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Coal miners 7
Elections 7
Politics and government. 7
Unions. 6
New Deal, 1933-1939 5
Account books 4
Coal mining - coal companies. 4
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 4
Coal mining -- Strikes 4
Labor 4
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Editors - letters and papers. 3
Fairmont. 3
Labor unions 3
Railroads 3
Taxation 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
Broadsides. 2
Coal - coal operators. 2
Coal industry. 2
Coal mines and mining 2
Coal mining - Medical care. 2
Coal mining - Safety. 2
Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
Diaries and journals. 2
General stores 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Unions -- Coal 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Advertising 1
African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
Agriculture 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Benham, Ky. -- Benham Employees Associations 1
Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
Charleston. 1
Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
Coal - Mine safety. 1
Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal - labor disputes. 1
Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal miners - Medical care. 1
Coal miners' spouses 1
Coal miners' trials. 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 - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
Coal operators associations. 1
Colorado 1
Education 1
Environmentalism. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 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
Guffey Coal Act. 1
Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
Hyattsville (Md.) 1
Illinois - Coal mining. 1
Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
Kentucky 1
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