Jones, Mary.
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
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- Coal miners 2
- Coal mining. 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Agriculture 1
- Atwater. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Churches -- Roman Catholic 1
- Coal - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal companies - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal companies - Smokeless Coal Fields. 1
- Coal miners' spouses 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Beaver Coal Company. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - Colorado mines. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal trade 1
- Colorado 1
- Estate settlements. 1
- Homestead, PA -- Steel workers -- Strikes 1
- Hyattsville (Md.) 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Mexican Revolution. 1
- Mines and mining -- Colorado 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Prohibition -- United States -- History 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes - Colorado miners. 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- West Virginia 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women -- United States -- History 1
- Women brewery workers -- Wisconsin -- Milwaukee 1
- Women labor union members 1
- Women textile workers 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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