Mooney, Fred, 1888-1952
Person
Found in 5 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
Fred Mooney Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1956
Scope and Contents
Fred Mooney papers, ca.1935. 1 ms. Box and 1 bundle. Original manuscripts on "The Life of Fred Mooney, By Himself" and a scrapbook and newspaper clippings collected by Mooney. Mooney was a former secretary-treasurer of United Mine Workers District 31. A microfilm copy of the papers was made in 1961 and is filed under A&M 1428.Additional: One folder of correspondence by or to Fred Mooney, 1938-1941. Includes typescript pages of Mooney's early life and family. Correspondents...
Dates:
ca. 1935
Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2584
Overview
Transcript of an interview by Richard Hadsell with Major W.P. Tams, Jr., former mine operator in the Winding Gulf coal mining region. Tams discusses his early days in coal mining, the opening of the Kanawha coal region, and coal operators and union officials such as: E.J. Berwind, Joe Beury, George Collins, Jarius Collins, Justus Collins, John J. Cornwell, Samuel Dixon, Elias Hatfield, Troy Hatfield, Isaac Mann, S.T. Patterson, J.A. Renahan, James O. Watts, and George Wolfe. Other...
Dates:
1825-1934
Mary "Mother" Jones Letter
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1823
Overview
Letter from Mary "Mother" Jones to T.V. Powderly, Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. "Mother" Jones introduces Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, District 17, asks Powderly to get him a passport, and says she does not know when she will leave for Mexico.
Dates:
1920
W.P. Tams, Jr. Letter Regarding "Struggle in the Coal Fields" by Fred Mooney
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2512
Overview
This holograph letter from Tams to Dr. Munn discusses Fred Mooney's book, STRUGGLE IN THE COAL FIELDS. Tams gives his opinion of the book and its author.
Dates:
1968 Nov 1
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 4
- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Mexico 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Washington (D.C.) 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1 + ∧ less
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