United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
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
Panoramic Photographs Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4168
Overview
Collection of over 110 panoramic photographs documenting soldiers and military camps, conventions and meetings, West Virginia University (WVU), businesses, railroads, family reunions, and more. Types of image include group portraits, landscapes, and building photographs. Conventions and meetings include the WV Delegates to Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Convention, the 13th Annual Meeting of the WV Dairymen's Association, the Democratic National Convention, the WV State...
Dates:
1890-2008; Majority of material found within 1890-1960
Progressive Mine Workers of America, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2609
Scope and Contents
Records of the Progressive Mine Workers of America.Boxes 1-36 include: convention proceedings, minutes, contracts and agreements, financial records, correspondence, mine inspectors' reports, and grievance files which make up the bulk of the records. In addition there are printed National Industrial Recovery Administration and National Recovery Administration documents on the coal industry and a microfilm copy of the union's newspaper, THE PROGRESSIVE MINER, 1932-53....
Dates:
1932-1965
Teamsters Local 175, Scrapbook and Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2284
Overview
A scrapbook and personal diary of Volney Andrews, one-time president of Local 175, covering the years 1938-1949. There is material on disputes over the legitimacy of the AFL and the CIO especially as it was reflected in state regional labor councils and jurisdictional struggles in West Virginia between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Mine Workers of America. Also mentioned are political concerns such as elections, congressional investigations of labor and foreign trade...
Dates:
1938-1949
United Mine Workers of America Inventory
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2982
Overview
Preliminary inventory of the archives of the United Mine Workers of America conducted circa 1985. Inventory was conducted by the West Virginia Collection at the request of the UMWA, in order to help the labor organization prepare to send the materials to an archival repository. Collection contains a three-page explanation of the inventory process and the twenty-seven page inventory. Inventory notes types of materials (correspondence, subject files, financial reports, meeting minutes,...
Dates:
circa 1985
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- Labor unions 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 2
- Unions -- Coal 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Illinois. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Elections 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Grievance cases - labor unions. 1
- Illinois - Coal mining. 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Labor unions - grievance cases. 1
- Labor unions - pension plans. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Military camps 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Pension plans - labor unions. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- The Progressive Miner 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States Bureau of Mines - Inspectors' reports. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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