United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2628
Scope and Contents
Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky, circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union.
(2) Adam Getto, ...
Dates:
circa 1932, 1970-1975
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
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, Local Union 6046, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2680
Overview
Minutes, correspondence, grievance case files, and union campaign material of union locals in the New River field. The correspondence concerns implementation of national bituminous coal mine contracts, local 6046's members' benefits, safety and working conditions in the Lochgelly mine, and state and federal legislation sought by the UMW. The minutes of Local 6046 meetings summarize all matters discussed and acted on, including reports from the local's mine and safety committees, expenses,...
Dates:
ca. 1933-1974
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal - Mine safety. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners - Medical care. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Elections 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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