Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
Pocahontas Operators Association, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2796
Overview
The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on...
Dates:
1941-1973
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: Unions - UMWA. X
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- Labor 2
- Union names. 2
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 2
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal - labor disputes. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal miners' trials. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Elections 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fairmont. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Trials. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Labor 1 + ∧ less
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