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Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969

 Person

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

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

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  • Subject: Coal mining. X
  • Subject: Coal mining. X

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Subject
Coal mining - Labor organization. 8
Union names. 7
Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 7
Elections 5
New Deal, 1933-1939 5
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Politics and government. 5
Coal mining - coal companies. 4
Unions. 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
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
Politicians -- United States 2
Strikes and lockouts 2
Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 2
Unions -- Coal 2
United States -- Politics and government 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
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
Mount Olive (Ill.) 1
N&W Railroads - railroads. 1
Oklahoma 1
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