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Unions.

 Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 20 Collections and/or Records:

A. Philip Randolph, Civil Rights and Labor Leader, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1530
Overview Papers of Asa Philip Randolph, a prominent civil rights and labor leader, who founded and edited The Messenger, an influential black radical labor newspaper of the 1920s and who organized and presided over the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, the only independent, viable black trade union in the American labor movement. Much of the correspondence deals with raising subscriptions for The Messenger, gaining an International...
Dates: 1919-1937
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employees of America, Division 103, Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2536
Scope and Contents Records of a local union of street car employees in Wheeling, West Virginia. There are minute books, correspondence, contracts, agreements, boards of arbitration hearings, and financial records, including membership figures and lists of members from the founding of the local to the late 1950s. The correspondence concerns mainly intra-union issues of seniority, transfers of membership, and local union governance, but there are also a few letters about Division 103's support of other organized...
Dates: 1899-1958
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

American Flint Glass Workers Union, Archives

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2639
Overview

Contracts, correspondence, records, agreements, circulars, reports, proceedings, and pictures of AFGWU Locals 536 and 95 of Morgantown, West Virginia. Some of the material relates to glass workers at the Beaumont Glass Company of Morgantown.

Dates: 1951-1975
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates: 1787-1957
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Coal Miners' March Telegram

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1716
Overview

Two-Page telegram from the Williamson Kiwanis Club to the Prosecuting Attorney of Boone County concerning an armed group of UMWA miners preparing to march through Logan County to Mingo County.

Dates: 1921
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Guy D. Goff Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0622
Overview Two scrapbooks of newspaper clippings and two volumes of typed copies of correspondence written by Guy Despard Goff (September 13, 1866 - January 7, 1933), son of Nathan Goff, Jr. (1843-1920). Guy D. Goff was United States district attorney for the eastern district of Wisconsin (1911-1915), assistant to the Attorney General of the United States (1917, ca. 1920-1923), and a U.S. Senator from West Virginia (1925-1931), among other things. One scrapbook concerns labor violence in 1911-1912,...
Dates: 1911-1920
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Huett Nestor, Compiler, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1885
Overview

Archives of the Fairmont Labor Temple, 1921-1940, including certificate of incorporation, bylaws, financial records, minutes, and correspondence. There are also notes on the labor movement in Marion County, compiled by Huett Nestor, concerning the membership and officers of local unions, and a list of "Prominent Members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. from Marion County."

Dates: 1921-1940, 1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Laborers' International Union of North America, Local 814, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3314
Overview

Minutes of the Laborers International Union of North America, Local 814 which represents West Virginia University employees. Documents first organizational meeting of April 28, 1960 through June 14, 1963.

Dates: 1960-1963
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Mary "Mother" Jones Letter

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1823
Overview

Letter from Mary "Mother" Jones to T.V. Powderly, Department of Labor, Washington, D.C. "Mother" Jones introduces Fred Mooney, secretary-treasurer of the United Mine Workers, District 17, asks Powderly to get him a passport, and says she does not know when she will leave for Mexico.

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