United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 54 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
Gauley Mountain Coal Company Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1921
Overview
The collection consists of a letter from William N. Page, organizer of the Gauley Mountain Coal Company, concerning dangers in mining; abstracts of land titles granted to Robert Morris in 1795; World War II production statistics for the company; copy of a contract between the company, the United Mine Workers of America, and the Charleston General Hospital for hospitalization of miners and their families; letter outlining the life of Robert Hamilton Morris, director of the American Institute...
Dates:
1908-1951
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
George S. Goldstein, Health Care Administrator, Records regarding United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3285
Overview
Records of Dr. George S. Goldstein, a health care administrator who worked in the Ohio and Pennsylvania coal fields. Dr. Goldstein's work concerned the Appalachian coalfield medical care system, especially in terms of the role played by the United Mine Workers of America and its health and retirement fund.
Dates:
1950-1996
George Thompson, Coal Miner, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3260
Scope and Contents
This collection includes booklets of agreements between the U.M.W.A. and northern WV coal operators, coal company employee accounts, and WV mining law codes, as well as certificates for first aid training and union dues of George Thompson of Monongah, Marion Co., WV.
Series include:
Series 1. Pamphlets, 1931-1937, undated
Series 2. Ephemera, 1902-1918, 1937-1938, 1984, undated
Dates:
1902-1918, 1931-1938, 1984, undated
Gordon L. Swartz III, Oral History with Karl Kafton, United Mine Workers of America Leader
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4647
Scope and Contents
This is an oral history interview conducted by Gordon L. Swartz III featuring Karl Kafton, a West Virginia coal miner and active member of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) union. Kafton shares his parents’ story of immigrating to the United States from Ukraine in the early 20th century and his father's experiences working in coal mines in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. He describes his childhood in a predominantly immigrant mining community, his experiences in grade school, and...
Dates:
1995 September 29
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
James R. Moreland (1879-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1146
Scope and Contents
Family papers of Alexander Smith, Charles Edgar Brown, and Joseph Moreland; correspondence; materials relating to local history and Moreland's civic, social, religious, and professional activities. Typescript on the Union in West Virginia Coal Fields; a bound typescript on the History of the Various Courts of Monongalia County; and abstracts and legal papers of the Connellsville Basin Coke Company. Material also includes plats and maps relating to the residential and...
Dates:
1809-1948
Joseph Ozanic, Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2482
Overview
Joe Ozanic went to work in the coal mines of Mt. Olive, joining in 1909, UMW Local 728. After serving briefly in the army during World War I, Ozanic returned to work in the mines at Mt. Olive. In 1932, Ozanic joined the Progressive Mine Workers of America, a rival organization to the United Mine Workers, serving both as president of PMWA District 1 and as national president. During the 1940s, Ozanic was an organizer for the American Federation of Labor. These papers reflect Ozanic's...
Dates:
1932-1974
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
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 22
- Union names. 18
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 18
- Coal mining. 16
- Coal miners 11
- Unions - UMWA. 11
- Politics and government. 9
- Account books 8
- Coal mining -- Strikes 8
- Coal mining - coal companies. 7
- Elections 7
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 6
- New Deal, 1933-1939 6
- Unions. 6
- World War, 1939-1945 6
- Coal mining - Safety. 5
- Taxation 5
- World War, 1914-1918 5
- Coal mining - Medical care. 4
- Diaries and journals. 4
- Labor 4
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
- Mills and mill-work 4
- Railroads 4
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 4
- Broadsides. 3
- Coal mines and mining 3
- Editors - letters and papers. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 3
- Kentucky 3
- Labor unions 3
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 3
- Logan County. 3
- Marion County (W. Va.) 3
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 3
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 3
- Physicians - letters and papers. 3
- Socialism 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Agriculture 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 2
- Coal - Mine safety. 2
- Coal - coal operators. 2
- Coal - labor disputes. 2
- Coal industry. 2
- Coal miners - Medical care. 2
- Coal miners' trials. 2
- Coal miners--West Virginia 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 2
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 2
- Coal mining - disasters. 2
- Education 2
- Gas industry 2
- General stores 2
- Health services. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 2
- Maps. 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 2
- Monongalia County (W. Va.) 2
- Politicians -- United States 2
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 2
- Unions -- Coal 2
- United States -- Politics and government 2
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 2
- Women -- Suffrage 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- Advertising 1
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Appalachian Region 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Benham, Ky. -- Benham Employees Associations 1
- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Builders and contractors. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Charleston. 1
- Church buildings 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Clarksburg (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Island Creek Coal Co. 1
- Coal - Logan County. 1
- Coal - Miners for Democracy. 1
- Coal - Solvay Collieries. 1
- Coal - company stores. 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 companies - West Virginia. 1 + ∧ less
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