United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Henry Drury Hatfield (1875-1962) Papers and Correspondence
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1661
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, farm records, legal and financial records, speeches, medical files, photographs, and newspaper clippings of Governor (1913-17) and United States Senator (1929-35) Henry D. Hatfield, who was also chief surgeon and founder of the Huntington Memorial Hospital.Subjects include West Virginia and national politics, 1928-35; 1944-57; National Republican Conventions of 1912, 1928, 1932, 1944, 1948, and 1952; criticism of the New Deal and the Fair Deal; the NRA; the West...
Dates:
1913-1958
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions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Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.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
Additional filters:
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- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Elections 2
- Politics and government. 2
- Advertising 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal companies - Island Creek Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - Logan Coal Operators Association. 1
- Coal mining - March on Mingo and Logan. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kentucky 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Railroads 1
- Solvay Collieries - coal. 1
- Solvay Collieries. 1
- Taxation 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- United States - Census returns. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- Virginia-West Virginia debt controversy. 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1914-1918 -- National Defense Council (U.S.) 1 + ∧ less
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