Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 2 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
Teamsters Local 175, Scrapbook and Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2284
Overview
A scrapbook and personal diary of Volney Andrews, one-time president of Local 175, covering the years 1938-1949. There is material on disputes over the legitimacy of the AFL and the CIO especially as it was reflected in state regional labor councils and jurisdictional struggles in West Virginia between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Mine Workers of America. Also mentioned are political concerns such as elections, congressional investigations of labor and foreign trade...
Dates:
1938-1949
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- Subject: Strikes and lockouts X
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- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Atwater. 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 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 - Labor organization. 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
- Elections 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Railroads 1
- Railroads - Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. 1
- Railroads - Norfolk and Western Railroad. 1
- Scrip. 1
- Smokeless Coal Fields - coal. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- Virginian Railroad -- Railroads 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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