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Charles E. Boswell, Newspaper Editor, Essay regarding Miners at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek
In an unpublished essay, Boswell, editor of the Labor Argus (Charleston's Socialist newspaper) describes the mining labor troubles at Paint Creek and Cabin Creek. He adamantly opposes Governor Hatfield's settlement and the role of the UMWA in accepting it. In particular he castigates Thomas Haggerty, a field marshal for the union, for compromising with capitalists.
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959), Barns Family Papers
Correspondence, business, and legal papers, and photographs of Thomas Barns (1750-1836) and his son John S. Barns, who operated a grist and saw mill at Polsleys Mill (now Fairmont). Papers deal with a river trip to Indiana, 1837; coal mining in 1839; the money question, 1838; land transactions, farming, and mercantile operations of the Barns family; Rosecrans in Middle Tennessee, 1863; and the poor economic conditions, 1878.
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Consolidation Coal Company Clippings
Weekly compilations of photocopied news clippings prepared by the publicity department of Consolidation Coal Company. The clippings are taken from a wide variety of newspapers and document to a limited extent the coal industry nationally. Principally, however, the clippings focus on issues directly related to the company, the Bituminous Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America, relying mainly on Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia newspapers.
Dawson Coal Company Collection
Doug Yarrow and Charlotte Yablonski Appalachian UMWA Papers
This collection consists of papers and printed materials related to the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) and Black Lung Association. It also includes newspapers and legal documents related to the UMWA elections, Joseph A. Yablonski, Mingo County, and the protests against strip mining in Appalachia.
Edgar B. Rowe Papers
This collection consists of correspondence, decisions, and briefs of the umpire for the Northern West Virginia Coal Association, Big Sandy-Elkhorn Coal Operators Association, Western Pennsylvania Coal Operators Association, and the United Mine Workers of America.