United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 17 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Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions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Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.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
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
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
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
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, Slide-Tape Presentation
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2551
Overview
A slide-tape presentation of the history of the United Mine Workers of America, produced by the staff of the United Mine Workers Journal, entitled "Proud To Be A Miner". The program deals both with the historical problems that lead to the founding of the union and its early struggles as well as the more recent rank and file movements such as the Miners for Democracy, Black Lung Association, and the wildcat strikes of 1972-76. This collection comprises a set of transparencies, one cassette...
Dates:
1976
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
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- Coal miners 11
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 8
- Coal mining. 6
- Union names. 6
- Unions - UMWA. 6
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 6
- Coal mining -- Strikes 4
- Broadsides. 2
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal miners - Medical care. 2
- Coal miners' trials. 2
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Health services. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Labor 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Account books 1
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Mine safety. 1
- Coal - Miners for Democracy. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 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 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Electric equipment 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - Wage scales. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - age affidavits. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - engineering problems. 1
- Coal mining - non-union miners. 1
- Colorado 1
- Community health centers. 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Elections 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Health maintenance organizations 1
- Helen (W. Va.) 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Medicine 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Rivers and river valleys. 1
- Silicosis 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Taxation 1
- Trials (Treason) -- United States 1
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