United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 12 Collections and/or Records:
Dawson Coal Company Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2659
Scope and Contents
Folder 1: pamphlet, OUTLINE OF WORK OF STATE BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS; broadside, AMERICA FIRST! YOUR GOVERNMENT, American Constitutional Association, Charleston, WV; catalogue of Cincinnati Pump Mfg. Co., n.d.; affidavits certifying ages of young men for employment; miscellaneous company correspondence concerning provision of non-union miners, job applications, engineering problems, and other mine business, including a letter from the Clarksburg Ku Klux Klan regarding...
Dates:
1917-1948
Frank Stadlbauer, Collector, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1818
Overview
Coal miner of Monongalia County, West Virginia. The collection includes pay envelopes and records from the Rosedale Coal Co., Connellsville By-Product Coal Corp. and Kelley's Creek Colliery Co. There also are certificates of appointment for a second-class mine foreman and a check weighman, an official tally sheet for a UMWA election, bylaws of the Mountaineer Craftsmen's Cooperative Association, a grievance blank, production statistics (1920-1921) for the Rosedale Coal Co.'s No.2 mine, and...
Dates:
1919-1937
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
Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview
Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates:
1932-1974
Matewan Massacre Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2962
Overview
Correspondence between Harold Houston, chief attorney for UMWA District 17 and Floyd Evans of the legal firm of Evans and Sampselle concerning trials after the "Matewan Massacre." Legal affidavits pertaining to the miners' trials of 1922 in Charles Town, West Virginia and to the Red Jacket Coal and Coke Co. and Hitchman Coal and Coke Company's suits against John L. Lewis and John Mitchell of the UMWA. Proclamations of Governor E.F. Morgan concerning the 1921 Mingo County mine strikes. An...
Dates:
1914-1934
Miners for Democracy Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2477
Overview
The collection consists of the "Proposed Rules of MFD Caucus", from District 3l, UMWA, and the transcribed testimony of Charles M. Culp, a West Virginia miner, given in Washington, D.C., on 18 February 1972 in an investigation of his retention by District 31 as campaign worker for the Boyle-Titler-Owens international slate in 1969. Culp's handwritten statement and other evidence are included with the testimony.
Dates:
1972
Miners' Treason Trials, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0979
Overview
The collection consists of case papers for the trials of coal miners and UMWA leaders, indicted for treason in connection with the armed march into Logan County, West Virginia, during August and September, 1921. The main part of the papers concern the trials of Walter Allen, William Blizzard, C. Frank Keeney, Rev. J.E. Wilburn, and John Wilburn. There are also photocopies of an indictment dated 17 September 1921 and an indictment dated 12 January 1922, as well as other court records...
Dates:
1921-1923
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
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
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- Coal miners 8
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 8
- Coal mining. 6
- Union names. 6
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 6
- Unions - UMWA. 5
- Coal mining -- Strikes 4
- Broadsides. 2
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal miners' trials. 2
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Labor 2
- World War, 1914-1918 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 - 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 - Medical care. 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 - 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
- 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 services. 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. 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
- Trials. 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions. 1
- United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds - copayment system. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- Virginia 1
- Vocational rehabilitation 1 + ∧ less
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