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Homer Adams Holt (1898-1975) Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1450
Scope and Contents Correspondence, messages, and state papers of West Virginia's twentieth governor, 1937-1941, and manuscript drafts of "West Virginia: A Guide to the Mountain State (1941)," the Works Project Administration's Federal Writer's Project's work on West Virginia. Also included are assorted speeches and addresses given by Holt, newspaper clippings and articles regarding Holt's successor as Governor of West Virginia, Matthew Neely, and other political figures, and correspondence with governors from...
Dates: 1937-1944

Major W. P. Tams, Jr. Transcript of an Interview

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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

West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates: 1897-1972

West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers

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Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview

Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.

Dates: 1905-1959

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  • Names: Cornwell, John J. (John Jacob), 1867-1953 X
  • Subject: Union names. X
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Elections 3
Politics and government. 3
Account books 2
Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
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Names
Holt, Homer Adams, 1898-1975 3
Holt, Rush Dew, 1905-1955 3
Johnson, George W. 3
Kump, Herman Guy, 1877-1962 3
Neely, Matthew Mansfield, 1874-1958 3
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Randolph, Jennings, 1902-1998 3
Revercomb, Chapman, 1895- 3
AFL-CIO 2
AFL-CIO. Committee on Political Education 2
American Federation of Labor 2
Andrews, Volney. 2
Armstrong, Glenn. 2
Barron, W. W. 2
Biaggi, Mario 2
Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949 2
Bowles, Chester, 1901-1986 2
Boyle, William M. 2
Boyle, William M. Jr. 2
Buckman, Cecil G. 2
Burnside, Maurice Gwinn, 1902-1991 2
Butler, Paul M. (Paul Mulholland), 1905-1961 2
Byrd, Robert C. 2
Cairnes, Tom. 2
Carey, James B. 2
Carter, E.A. 2
Congress of Industrial Organizations (U.S.) 2
Daniels, Jonathan. 2
Dawson, D. Boone. 2
Eccles, Mariner S. 2
Edmiston, Andrew. 2
Ellis, Hubert S. 2
Funkhouser, Raymond J. 2
Green, William. 2
Haywood, Allan S., 1888-1953 2
Hedrick, Erland H. 2
Hillman, Sidney, 1887-1946 2
Humphrey, Hubert H. (Hubert Horatio), 1911-1978 2
Hutchings, Paul R. 2
Kee, John, 1874-1951 2
Kee, Maude Elizabeth, 1895-1975 2
Kilgore, Harley Martin, 1893-1956 2
Landis, James M. 2
MacDonald, David J. 2
Marland, William C. 2
Maybank, Burnet R. 2
Meadows, Clarence W. 2
Meany, George, 1894-1980 2
Mollohan, Robert H. 2
Moore, Arch A., Jr. (Arch Alfred), 1923-2015 2
Parkersburg Central Trades & Labor Council 2
Patteson, Okey L. 2
Preston, Rev. David. 2
Ramsay, Robert L. 2
Rohrbaugh, E.G. 2
Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962 2
Roosevelt, Franklin D., Jr. (Franklin Delano), 1914-1988 2
Schiffler, A.C. 2
Skeen, Ben. 2
West Virginia Industrial Union Council, CIO. 2
West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 2
Wheeling Typographical Union, No.79 2
Baldwin-Felts Detective Inc. 1
Beaver Coal Company 1
Berwind, E.J. 1
Beury, Joe. 1
Beury, Joseph L. 1
Caster, Curran and Bullitt 1
Collins, George. 1
Collins, Jarius. 1
Collins, Justus, 1857-1934 1
Davis, John W. (John William), 1873-1955 1
Dixon, Samuel. 1
Hadsell, Richard. 1
Hatfield, Elias. 1
Hatfield, Henry Drury, 1875-1962 1
Hatfield, Troy. 1
Jones, Mary. 1
Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969 1
Mann, Isaac T. (Isaac Thomas), 1864-1932 1
McNutt, Paul V. (Paul Vories), 1891-1955 1
Mitchell, John. 1
Mooney, Fred, 1888-1952 1
Patterson, Bob. 1
Patterson, S.T. 1
Perkins, Milo, 1900- 1
Pressman, Lee, 1906-1969 1
Renahan, J.A. 1
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 1
Steel Workers Organizing Committee (U.S.) 1
Surplus Commodities Corporation 1
Tams, W. P., Jr. (William Purviance), 1883-1977 1
United States. Public Health Service 1
Vanderbilt, William H. (William Henry), 1901-1981 1
Watts, James O. 1
Weirton Steel Employees' Security League 1
West Virginia Bar Association 1
Winding Gulf Collieries 1
Wolfe, George. 1
Writers’ Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of West Virginia 1
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