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Coal mining - Medical care.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Fund, Director John D. Winebrenner, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3104
Overview The correspondence, travel vouchers and articles of John D. Winebrenner, a regional director of the UMWA Health & Retirement Funds in Tennessee. Papers and publications reflect the problems and contributions of organized medicine and the promotional efforts of the United Mine Workers of America in meeting the diverse medical needs of coal miners, particularly the majority of miners who lived and worked in remote areas. Publications included The Boone Report and Medical Services for Rural...
Dates: 1948-1972

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