Miners' Treason Trials.
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Fred Mooney Manuscripts
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1428
Scope and Contents
Typescript and manuscript drafts of “The Life of Fred Mooney,” by himself, and a manuscript copy of "Shootin Straight" by J. F. Pennington. Mooney, one-time Secretary-Treasurer of the West Virginia United Mine Workers, relates his experience in the West Virginia labor movement, He covers the disturbances at Cabin and Paint Creek, 1912-1913; the abortive Miners March of 1919; the Matawan massacre of the Baldwin Felts detectives; the Miners Treason Trials in 1922; and a later dispute with John...
Dates:
circa 1935
Miner's Treason Trials (Charlestown, W.Va.), Indictment and Article
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1779
Overview
In 1922, twenty-four coal miners were jailed for treason in Charles Town, West Virginia, in the Jefferson County jail, as a result of violent conflict during the miners' attempt to unionize in Southwestern West Virginia in the early twentieth century. Collection contains photocopies of the miners' indictment and an article, "Treason Trials in the United States" from the American Law Review, volume 26.
Dates:
1922 and undated
Miners' Treason Trials, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0979
Overview
The collection consists of case papers for the trials of coal miners and UMWA leaders, indicted for treason in connection with the armed march into Logan County, West Virginia, during August and September, 1921. The main part of the papers concern the trials of Walter Allen, William Blizzard, C. Frank Keeney, Rev. J.E. Wilburn, and John Wilburn. There are also photocopies of an indictment dated 17 September 1921 and an indictment dated 12 January 1922, as well as other court records...
Dates:
1921-1923