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United Mine Workers of America

 Organization

Found in 30 Collections and/or Records:

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 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

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

United Mine Workers of America, Miscellaneous Papers and Union President Election Material Regarding Elijah Wolford

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2126
Overview

Material and campaign literature from the campaign of Elijah Wolford for the presidency of the union, 1969. Includes a letter from a campaign committee, the campaign platform, reprint of remarks by Congressman Ken Hechler in the United States House of Representatives, and a report on "Conspiracy in Coal" by T.N. Bethell.

Dates: 1969

United Mine Workers of America, Miscellaneous Papers, Certificate of Membership in Local No. 90

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2102
Overview

Certificate of membership in Local No. 90 of the United Mine Workers at Watson.

Dates: 1899

United Mine Workers of America, Miscellaneous Papers, Charter for Union Local No. 3934

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2261
Overview

Charter issued to Local 3934 by the United Mine Workers of America, May 13, 1920. M.B. Johnson of Hoard, West Virginia is listed as President of the Local and Loyd Downey of Point Marion, Pennsylvania is listed as Secretary. John L. Lewis, national President, signed the charter.

Dates: 1920

United Mine Workers Records at Cornell University

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2991
Overview

Guide to the microfilmed records at the Labor Management Documentation Center of Cornell's M.P. Catherwood Library. Includes the early joint conferences of coal miners and operators, 1899-1920, the District 12 (Illinois) conventions, 1899-1916 and grievance adjustment proceedings, 1899-1927. None of Cornell's holdings pertain directly to West Virginia.

Dates: 1899-1927

Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates: 1908-1961

Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates: 1938-1967

Winding Gulf Coals, Inc. Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1525
Overview The collection consists of ledgers, journals, and cashbooks of the Goodwill Coal and Coke Co., Greenbrier Coal and Coke Co., Gulf Coal Co., Louisville Coal and Coke Co., Winding Gulf Coal and Coke Co., and the Winding Gulf Colliery Co., with some material on the operation of company stores. There is also correspondence (1911-1915) between the managers of mines at Winding Gulf and Davy, West Virginia, discussing production levels, availability of railroad cars and freight rates, New River and...
Dates: 1888-1950

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Coal mining - Labor organization. 21
Union names. 18
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 18
Coal mining. 10
Politics and government. 8
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Coal miners 7
Elections 7
Unions - UMWA. 6
Account books 5
Coal mining -- Strikes 5
New Deal, 1933-1939 5
Unions. 5
Coal mining - coal operators associations. 4
Diaries and journals. 4
Labor 4
Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
Railroads 4
Taxation 4
World War, 1914-1918 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Coal mining - Safety. 3
Coal mining - coal companies. 3
Editors - letters and papers. 3
Fairmont. 3
Labor unions 3
Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 3
Academies (Private schools) 2
Coal - Mine safety. 2
Coal - labor disputes. 2
Coal industry. 2
Coal miners' trials. 2
Coal mines and mining 2
Coal mining - Medical care. 2
Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
General stores 2
Judges - letters and papers. 2
Kentucky 2
Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
Logan County. 2
Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
Marion County (W. Va.) 2
Mills and mill-work 2
Miners' Treason Trials. 2
Morgantown (W. Va.) 2
Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
Politicians -- United States 2
Unions -- Coal 2
United States -- Politics and government 2
Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
Advertising 1
Agriculture 1
Alabama 1
Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
Broadsides. 1
Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
Charleston. 1
Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
Coal - Logan County. 1
Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal - coal operators. 1
Coal - company stores. 1
Coal - labor relations. 1
Coal - problems. 1
Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
Coal miners - Medical care. 1
Coal miners' spouses 1
Coal miners--West Virginia 1
Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 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
Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
Coal mining - company stores. 1
Coal mining - disasters. 1
Coal operators associations. 1
Colorado 1
Davy. 1
Education 1
Environmentalism. 1
Estate settlements. 1
Fairmont Index. 1
Fairmont Times. 1
Farms and farming. 1
Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
Gas industry 1
Grafton. 1
Grievance cases - labor unions. 1
Guffey Coal Act. 1
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