United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 21 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Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions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Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.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
Progressive Mine Workers of America, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2609
Scope and Contents
Records of the Progressive Mine Workers of America.Boxes 1-36 include: convention proceedings, minutes, contracts and agreements, financial records, correspondence, mine inspectors' reports, and grievance files which make up the bulk of the records. In addition there are printed National Industrial Recovery Administration and National Recovery Administration documents on the coal industry and a microfilm copy of the union's newspaper, THE PROGRESSIVE MINER, 1932-53....
Dates:
1932-1965
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
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
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
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- Union names. 15
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 15
- Coal mining. 7
- Coal miners 6
- Coal mining -- Strikes 4
- Elections 3
- Politics and government. 3
- Account books 2
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Labor unions 2
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
- Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Railroads 2
- Taxation 2
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 2
- Unions - UMWA. 2
- Unions -- Coal 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Alabama 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Mine safety. 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 - Medical care. 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining 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 - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining - disasters. 1
- Colorado 1
- Davy. 1
- Diaries and journals. 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
- Grievance cases - labor unions. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Illinois - Coal mining. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kansas 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor organizing, UMWA - Ohio. 1
- Labor unions - grievance cases. 1
- Labor unions - pension plans. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- New River (N.C.-W. Va.) 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Ohio 1 + ∧ less
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