United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 51 Collections and/or Records:
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
Scotia Coal Company, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2570
Overview
Scotia Coal Company mine and store inventories; time, field rent, and account books; invoices, ledgers and registers covering business matters and community conditions. Also includes small box of pamphlets, including travel brochures for Washington D.C. and Gettysburg (ca. 1880-1900), and programs from the Chicago World's Fair (1893).
Dates:
1878-1956
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)
Steve Nash, Miner, Pay Statement and UMWA Card
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3010
Overview
Two photocopies of material relating to the coal mining career of Steve Nash. The first is a pay statement from the Hitchman Coal & Coke Company, July 1-16, 1912. The other is a United Mine Workers of America transfer card, August 31, 1906, giving a brief statistical description of Nash as well as mentioning the local from which he is transferring.
Dates:
1906-1912
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
Thurman I. Miller Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4297
Scope and Contents
Papers of Thurman Irving “T.I.” Miller (1919-2017), a native of southern West Virginia who served in the Marine Corps from 1939-1945, worked as a master electrician in the coal mining industry, and authored multiple books about both those experiences later in life.The collection includes research material, genealogical material, drafts of his books, and other material. Formats include correspondence, clippings, ephemera, photographs, research materials and interviews, handwritten...
Dates:
ca. 1907-2017
UMWA, Miners Right To Strike Committee Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3660
Overview
Records of the Miners Right To Strike Committee, a group affiliated with the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), documenting a strike against the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association (BCOA) in 1977 that resulted in a 1978 contract. Collection includes bulletins, handbills, newsletters, and other material issued by the Committee. Also includes "Statement of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association (BCOA), presented at the First Session of the National Bituminous Coal Wage Agreement...
Dates:
1976-1978; Majority of material found within 1977-1978
United Mine Workers of America, District 6, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2819
Overview
20 items relating to union organizing in District 6, UMWA (eastern Ohio). Includes court injunctions against UMWA, 1951; affidavits with complaints against UMWA organizers, 1951; list of loyal UMWA members; a letter, 20 February 1951, transmitting this material from George Waters to Steve Kubic; also two credentials for UMWA conventions, 1949 and 1952.
Dates:
1942-1952
United Mine Workers of America, District 29, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2643
Overview
Records of defunct UMW locals in District 29: Local 6195, Otsego, WV - minute book, 1943-71; Local 5949, Minden, WV - relief fund account book and Minden Hospital Fund, 1954-60; Local 6115, Aristo, WV - treasurer's cash book, 1945-52; two each printed copies of UMW Constitution, 1973 and 1976 and one printed copy of by-laws of UMW Local 9690, Itmann, WV. 1 reel microfilm contains 40 UMWA-District 29 contracts and reports, 1941-1971. See inventory folder for detailed list of microfilmed...
Dates:
1941-1976
United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Funds, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2769
Scope and Contents
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) archives consists of the records of the first industry-wide pension and medical care plans for coal miners and their families in the United States. The archives comprise approximately 156 linear feet of records from the years 1946-1974, and include minutes, resolutions, correspondence, memos, reports, transcribed speeches, lawsuit documents, construction plans, contracts, statistical reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, microfilmed reading...
Dates:
1915-1989
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 21
- Union names. 18
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 18
- Coal mining. 16
- Coal miners 11
- Unions - UMWA. 11
- Politics and government. 9
- Account books 8
- Coal mining -- Strikes 8
- Coal mining - coal companies. 7
- Elections 7
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 6
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Unions. 6
- Coal mining - Safety. 5
- Taxation 5
- World War, 1939-1945 5
- Coal mining - Medical care. 4
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Labor 4
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
- Mills and mill-work 4
- Railroads 4
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 4
- World War, 1914-1918 4
- Coal mines and mining 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
- Kentucky 3
- Labor unions 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Logan County. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Physicians - letters and papers. 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Agriculture 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
- Broadsides. 2
- Coal - Mine safety. 2
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal - labor disputes. 2
- Coal industry. 2
- Coal miners - Medical care. 2
- Coal miners' trials. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
- Coal mining - disasters. 2
- Education 2
- Gas industry 2
- General stores 2
- Health services. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
- Maps. 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Socialism 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
- Alabama 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Benham, Ky. -- Benham Employees Associations 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - Miners for Democracy. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - company stores. 1
- Coal - labor relations. 1
- Coal - problems. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Electric equipment 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 + ∧ less
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