United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fred Mooney Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1428
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript drafts of “The Life of Fred Mooney,” by himself, and a manuscript copy of "Shootin Straight" by J. F. Pennington. Mooney, one-time Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia United Mine Workers, relates his experience in the West Virginia labor movement, He covers the disturbances at Cabin and Paint Creek, 1912-1913; the abortive Miners March of 1919; the Matawan massacre of the Baldwin Felts detectives; the Miners Treason Trials in 1922; and a later dispute with John...
Dates:
circa 1935
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' 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
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- Subject: Trials. X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal miners' trials. 2
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Logan County. 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Trials (Treason) -- United States 1
- Trials. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1 + ∧ less
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