United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Justus Collins (1857-1934) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1824
Scope and Contents
Justus Collins [1857-1934] was an entrepreneur who opened his first coal mine in the Pocahontas- Flat Top coal field of Southern West Virginia, and thereafter operated mines in the New River, Tug River, and Winding Gulf coal fields. He headed a coal sales agency, speculated in coal and timber lands, headed a cement company, and was interested financially in rubber, oil, and gas companies. He played an important role in organizing the Tug River Coal Operators Association, the Winding Gulf...
Dates:
1887-1962
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
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- Account books 1
- Church buildings 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Safety. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Education 1
- Labor organizing, UMWA - Ohio. 1
- Maps. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Ohio 1
- Ohio - Labor organizing, UMWA. 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
- Taxation 1
- UMWA District 6 - Unions. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Winding Gulf (W. Va.) -- Coalfields 1 + ∧ less
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