United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
George C. McIntosh (1868-1935) Typed Document
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2599
Overview
Memoirs of a retired newspaperman, editor, and Republican state house representative (1898-1901). McIntosh supported the Republican party and coal operator interests through his newspapers and periodicals, which included: HUNTINGTON GAZETTE, HUNTINGTON SUNDAY GAZETTE, HINTON FREE LANCE, FAYETTE JOURNAL, NEWS-MAIL CO., RALEIGH HERALD, and company magazines for the Island Creek Coal Company and Solvay Collieries. McIntosh discusses: his early employment on the railroads as census taker and...
Dates:
1895-1920
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
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
Mother Jones Typescript Memoir
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2778
Overview
Typescript memoir of the life of Mother Jones, entitled "Mother Jones: the Life Story of the Irish Immigrant Girl Who Became the Most Unique Character in the American Labor Movement, Living Past 100 Years," written by Lillie May Burgess of Hyattsville, Maryland, and copyrighted 8 February 1938. The manuscript is in two parts, several pages of which are missing. The first part (241pp.) is entitled "The Life Story of Mother Jones: American Labor's Joan of Arc," and is a narration of events in...
Dates:
1938
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions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Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.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
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
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- Coal mining. 4
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- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Coal miners 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Taxation 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Colorado 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Education 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1
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