Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Miscellaneous Records Regarding History of the Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3836
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous records regarding history of the coal industry. Types of records include correspondence. See "Scope and Content Note" for additional information regarding material within the collection.
Dates:
1934-1937
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
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates:
1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
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
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
Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview
UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates:
1908-1961
West Virginia University, Honorary Degrees, Lists
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2583
Overview
Two lists, alphabetical and chronological, of honorary degree recipients of West Virginia University. Recipients include Newton D. Baker, Waitman Barbe, Michael Benedum, Luis Borges, Pearl Buck, Robert C. Byrd, Henry S. Commager, Roy Bird Cook, Earl Core, John J. Cornwell, Marmaduke Dent, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Henry D. Hatfield, John L. Lewis, J.A. McBride, Jennings Randolph, Sam Rayburn, Harold E. Stassen, Cyrus Vance, I.C. White, and Charles Yeager.
Dates:
1873-1988
Additional filters:
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- Coal mining - Labor organization. 8
- Politics and government. 7
- Union names. 7
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 7
- Elections 5
- New Deal, 1933-1939 5
- Coal mining - coal companies. 4
- Politicians -- United States 4
- Unions. 4
- United States -- Politics and government 4
- Coal mining -- Strikes 3
- Coal mining. 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 3
- Railroads 3
- Unions - UMWA. 3
- West Virginia - Politics and government. 3
- World War, 1914-1918 3
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Account books 2
- Coal industry. 2
- Coal miners 2
- Coal mining - Medical care. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' March of 1919. 2
- Coal mining - Miners' Treason Trials. 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- General stores 2
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Kentucky 2
- Labor 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Physicians - letters and papers. 2
- Strikes and lockouts 2
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 2
- Unions -- Coal 2
- West Virginia - Governors. 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans. 1
- Alabama 1
- Army-McCarthy Controversy, 1954 1
- Atwater. 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Broadsides. 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Cemeteries -- Union Miners' Cemetery 1
- Charleston. 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 - Scrip. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining - company stores. 1
- Coal operators associations. 1
- Coal trade 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Education 1
- Environmentalism. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Farms and farming. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Health services. 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Judges -- West Virginia 1
- Kanawha Valley. 1
- Kansas 1
- Labor disputes 1
- Labor organization. 1
- Labor unions 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Matawan Massacre 1
- Matewan (W. Va.) 1
- Matewan Massacre. 1
- Miners' Treason Trials. 1
- Mingo County (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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