United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Additional filters:
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- Politics and government. 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Elections 2
- Taxation 2
- Account books 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Education 1
- Environmentalism. 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
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Public utilities 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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