United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 54 Collections and/or Records:
Louis Horacek, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2651
Overview
United Mine Workers membership card and certificate; broadside and newsletters concerning protest of Marcus Garvey imprisonment by Universal Negro Improvement Association and UNIA membership certificates; NAACP organizing flier; 1886 printed poem TO THE PUPILS OF ROWLESBURG SCHOOL....; printed show ticket, undated.
Dates:
1920s, 1886
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
M.H. Ross, Collector, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1936
Scope and Contents
Material (1931-1957) of a labor organizer including correspondence, reports, handbills, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, instruction posters, political and labor buttons. There are court reports involving labor cases for the period 1940-1956. Subjects include Subversive Activities Control Board, integration in labor movement, labor during WW II, labor in southern U. S., communism in labor movement, union constitutions and agreement between industry and unions. See inventory for listing of...
Dates:
1931-1957
Miners for Democracy Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2477
Overview
The collection consists of the "Proposed Rules of MFD Caucus", from District 3l, UMWA, and the transcribed testimony of Charles M. Culp, a West Virginia miner, given in Washington, D.C., on 18 February 1972 in an investigation of his retention by District 31 as campaign worker for the Boyle-Titler-Owens international slate in 1969. Culp's handwritten statement and other evidence are included with the testimony.
Dates:
1972
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
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
Panoramic Photographs Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4168
Overview
Collection of over 110 panoramic photographs documenting soldiers and military camps, conventions and meetings, West Virginia University (WVU), businesses, railroads, family reunions, and more. Types of image include group portraits, landscapes, and building photographs. Conventions and meetings include the WV Delegates to Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Convention, the 13th Annual Meeting of the WV Dairymen's Association, the Democratic National Convention, the WV State...
Dates:
1890-2008; Majority of material found within 1890-1960
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
Pocahontas Operators Association Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview
The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates:
1941-1973
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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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