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Coal mining - Labor organization.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 30 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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers of America, District 6, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2819
Overview

20 items relating to union organizing in District 6, UMWA (eastern Ohio). Includes court injunctions against UMWA, 1951; affidavits with complaints against UMWA organizers, 1951; list of loyal UMWA members; a letter, 20 February 1951, transmitting this material from George Waters to Steve Kubic; also two credentials for UMWA conventions, 1949 and 1952.

Dates: 1942-1952
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers of America Inventory

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2982
Overview Preliminary inventory of the archives of the United Mine Workers of America conducted circa 1985. Inventory was conducted by the West Virginia Collection at the request of the UMWA, in order to help the labor organization prepare to send the materials to an archival repository. Collection contains a three-page explanation of the inventory process and the twenty-seven page inventory. Inventory notes types of materials (correspondence, subject files, financial reports, meeting minutes,...
Dates: circa 1985
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers of America, Local Union 6046, Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2680
Overview Minutes, correspondence, grievance case files, and union campaign material of union locals in the New River field. The correspondence concerns implementation of national bituminous coal mine contracts, local 6046's members' benefits, safety and working conditions in the Lochgelly mine, and state and federal legislation sought by the UMW. The minutes of Local 6046 meetings summarize all matters discussed and acted on, including reports from the local's mine and safety committees, expenses,...
Dates: ca. 1933-1974
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers of America, Miscellaneous Papers and Union President Election Material Regarding Elijah Wolford

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2126
Overview

Material and campaign literature from the campaign of Elijah Wolford for the presidency of the union, 1969. Includes a letter from a campaign committee, the campaign platform, reprint of remarks by Congressman Ken Hechler in the United States House of Representatives, and a report on "Conspiracy in Coal" by T.N. Bethell.

Dates: 1969
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers of America, Miscellaneous Papers, Certificate of Membership in Local No. 90

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2102
Overview

Certificate of membership in Local No. 90 of the United Mine Workers at Watson.

Dates: 1899
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Mine Workers of America, Miscellaneous Papers, Charter for Union Local No. 3934

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2261
Overview

Charter issued to Local 3934 by the United Mine Workers of America, May 13, 1920. M.B. Johnson of Hoard, West Virginia is listed as President of the Local and Loyd Downey of Point Marion, Pennsylvania is listed as Secretary. John L. Lewis, national President, signed the charter.

Dates: 1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

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
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Winding Gulf Coals, Inc. Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1525
Overview The collection consists of ledgers, journals, and cashbooks of the Goodwill Coal and Coke Co., Greenbrier Coal and Coke Co., Gulf Coal Co., Louisville Coal and Coke Co., Winding Gulf Coal and Coke Co., and the Winding Gulf Colliery Co., with some material on the operation of company stores. There is also correspondence (1911-1915) between the managers of mines at Winding Gulf and Davy, West Virginia, discussing production levels, availability of railroad cars and freight rates, New River and...
Dates: 1888-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Woodrow Mosley, Coal Miner, Interview Transcript

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3055
Overview

Transcript of an interview with a retired coal miner of Lincoln County, WV. Mosley lived and worked in the coal fields of Logan County, WV and Pike County, KY most of his life. He started to work in 1929 when mining was still done by pick and shovel and retired in the early sixties when mining had become mechanized. He describes the changes in mining technology he experienced and the effect of unionization in the coal mining region of southern West Virginia.

Dates: 1988
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center