White, John P. (John Phillip), 1870-1934
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), Governor, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0006
Scope and Contents
Papers documenting the governorship of William E. Glasscock (1862-1925), who served West Virginia in the period 1909-1913. These papers include series of general correspondence, subject files, newspaper clippings, and pamphlets. General correspondence includes many letters regarding employee unrest in the mining regions of the Great Kanawha Valley in 1912-1913, commonly known as the Cabin Creek-Paint Creek strike. Subject files include telegrams, photographs, etc. Newspaper...
Dates:
1905-1913
Filtered By
- Subject: Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Election of 1904. 1
- Election of 1908. 1
- Election of 1912. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Logan County. 1
- Politicians 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia - Governors. 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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