United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 4 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
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
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
Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1830
Scope and Contents
Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies...
Dates:
1800 (1952-1961)
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Advertising 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 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 mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Landgraff, W.Va. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Norfolk, V.A. 1
- Pocahontas County (W. Va.) 1
- Pocahontas V.a. 1
- Railroads 1
- Snowville, V.A. 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Taxation 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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