United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
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- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - Illinois. 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 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
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 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 -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- United States Bureau of Mines - Inspectors' reports. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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