Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 4 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
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
United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Funds, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2769
Scope and Contents
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) archives consists of the records of the first industry-wide pension and medical care plans for coal miners and their families in the United States. The archives comprise approximately 156 linear feet of records from the years 1946-1974, and include minutes, resolutions, correspondence, memos, reports, transcribed speeches, lawsuit documents, construction plans, contracts, statistical reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, microfilmed reading...
Dates:
1915-1989
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 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 - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Health services. 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Silicosis 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Trials. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds - copayment system. 1
- Virginia 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Vocational rehabilitation 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1
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