Mitchell, John.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview
UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates:
1908-1961
Additional filters:
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Atwater. 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Oklahoma 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
- Tennessee 1
- Trials. 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1 + ∧ less
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