United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 9 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
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
Miscellaneous Records Regarding History of the Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3836
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous records regarding history of the coal industry. Types of records include correspondence. See "Scope and Content Note" for additional information regarding material within the collection.
Dates:
1934-1937
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
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, 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
Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2141
Overview
Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine...
Dates:
1938-1967
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 6
- Coal mining. 6
- Politics and government. 5
- Taxation 4
- Coal miners 3
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 3
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Elections 3
- New Deal, 1933-1939 3
- Union names. 3
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 3
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Coal mining - Safety. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Education 2
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Unions. 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- Account books 1
- Advertising 1
- Agriculture 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - Mine safety. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - coal operators. 1
- Coal - company stores. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal - labor relations. 1
- Coal - problems. 1
- Coal Mining - Tug River field 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' 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 - New River field. 1
- Coal mining - Regulation. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - West Virginia Coal Association. 1
- Coal mining - Winding Gulf field. 1
- Coal mining - coal and coke sales. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Colorado 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Fayette County - Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Fayette Whiskey Ring. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Gas industry 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Health services. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan County - coal. 1
- Logan County, W. Va. -- Public schools 1
- Logan County. 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Maps. 1
- March on Mingo and Logan - coal. 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- New River coalfields. 1
- Newspaper publishing 1
- Newspapers. 1
- Pocahontas-Flat Top coalfield. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Public institutions -- West Virginia 1
- Public utilities 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Virginia Railway - Winding Gulf Branch. 1
- Schools - Logan County. 1
- Schools. SEE ALSO Academies 1
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