United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Matewan Massacre Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2962
Overview
Correspondence between Harold Houston, chief attorney for UMWA District 17 and Floyd Evans of the legal firm of Evans and Sampselle concerning trials after the "Matewan Massacre." Legal affidavits pertaining to the miners' trials of 1922 in Charles Town, West Virginia and to the Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co. and Hitchman Coal and Coke Company's suits against John L. Lewis and John Mitchell of the UMWA. Proclamations of Governor E.F. Morgan concerning the 1921 Mingo County mine strikes. An...
Dates:
1914-1934
Miscellaneous Records Regarding History of the Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3836
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous records regarding history of the coal industry. Types of records include correspondence. See "Scope and Content Note" for additional information regarding material within the collection.
Dates:
1934-1937
Mother Jones Typescript Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2778
Overview
Typescript memoir of the life of Mother Jones, entitled "Mother Jones: the Life Story of the Irish Immigrant Girl Who Became the Most Unique Character in the American Labor Movement, Living Past 100 Years," written by Lillie May Burgess of Hyattsville, Maryland, and copyrighted 8 February 1938. The manuscript is in two parts, several pages of which are missing. The first part (241pp.) is entitled "The Life Story of Mother Jones: American Labor's Joan of Arc," and is a narration of events in...
Dates:
1938
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
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 4
- Coal mining -- Strikes 4
- Coal mining. 4
- Unions - UMWA. 3
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal miners 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 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' spouses 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
- Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
- Colorado 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Taxation 1
- Trials. 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- West Virginia 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
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