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Start Over Date range 1946 Subjects Coal mining.

Pocahontas Operators Association Records 1.15 Linear Feet 1 document case, 5 in.; 5 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each

Pocahontas Operators Association
The minutes, correspondence, and financial records of the Pocahontas Operators Association and of its successors, the Smokeless Operators Association and the Southern Virginias Operators Association. Topics mentioned are foreign competition, environmental legislation, labor strife and union negotiations, and lobbying efforts in Congress and with state legislatures. Special mention is made of the conditions in the coal industry during World War II, the impact of the Taft-Hartley Act on bargaining for the 1948 contract, and the effects in the coalfields of union dissension in the UMWA over the role of the Tony Boyle administration during the early 1970s.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Progressive Mine Workers of America, Archives 16.94 Linear Feet Summary: 16 ft. 11 1/4 in. (35 document cases, 5 in.); (2 ledger books, 2 1/2 in.); (3 bound volumes, 10 in.); (1 oversize folder, 1/4 in.); (2 artifact storage boxes, 3/4 in.); (8 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Progressive Mine Workers of America

Records of the Progressive Mine Workers of America.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Rush Meadows Papers 23.4 Linear Feet 23 ft. 5 in. (52 document cases, 5 in. each); (7 large flat storage boxes, 3 in. each)

Meadows, Rush
Papers of Rush Meadows, a Charleston, West Virginia, mining engineer and mine operator, containing correspondence, maps, reports, and photographs on companies involved in coal, oil and gas production in Appalachia, the Rocky Mountain states, and Latin America.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Slaughter's Creek Coal & Land Company Records 0.25 Linear Feet Summary: 2 1/2 in. (1 document case)

Slaughter's Creek Coal and Land Company

The company owned coal lands in the Cabin Creek district of West Virginia. The collection includes deeds, contracts, maps, and engineering reports, with mention of the Winifrede Collieries Co., Wet Branch Mining Co., Chelyan Coal & Land Co., Standard Ore and Alloys Corporation, and Charleston Interurban Railroad Company.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Smokeless Coal Operators Association Records 0.71 Linear Feet Summary: 8 1/2 in. (1 folder, 1 1/2 in.); (4 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Smokeless Coal Operators Association

Production statistics and extracts from the historical files of the Smokeless Operators Association (until 1958 the Pocahontas Operators Association) showing the history of coal mining in the Pocahontas field and production, sales, and distribution statistics for the years 1930 and 1933-1961. There are weekly, monthly, and yearly reports on net tons produced, hours, worked, and tonnage lost because of labor problems, mine disability, or lack of market. There are lists of the coal companies operating in the Pocahontas district during these years. Some files include reports on net production by grade.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Smokeless Fuel Co. Records 3.3 Linear Feet 3 ft. 4 in. (8 document cases, 5 in. each)

Smokeless Fuel Company

This collection consists of correspondence, reports, financial records, pamphlets, maps, photographs, clippings, and other papers of a coal company operating in southern West Virginia. Subjects include operators' associations, wages, prices, mine inspection reports, sales, strip mining, and freight rates. Other firms mentioned include the Winding Gulf Collieries, Charleston Coal Co., Piney Coking Coal Land Co., Juliette Coal Co., LaMar Colliery Co., Phelps Coal Co., George Creek Coal Co., Guyan Eagle Coal Co., Johnstown Coal & Coke Co., Fourseam Coal Corp., Carbon Fuel Co., Cannelton Coal & Coke Co., Redyard Coal Co., Race Fork Coal Co., Crystal Block Coal & Coke Co., Williams Coal Co., and the Spruce River Coal Co.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

United Pocahontas Coal Company Records 0.04 Linear Feet 1 folder, 0.5 in.

United Pocahontas Coal Company
This collection consists mainly of business records of the United Pocahontas Coal Company of Crumpler, West Virginia (McDowell County), including a one-page typescript history of the company, bylaws (1915), business correspondence, and three blueprint maps.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Walter R. Thurmond (1881-1967) Papers 6.15 Linear Feet Summary: 6 ft. 1 3/4 in. (10 document cases, 5 in.); (1 records carton, 15 in.); (5 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

Thurmond, Walter R., 1881-1967
Operator in the Logan coalfield for many years, collector of Internal Revenue for West Virginia, and president of the state Board of Control, 1937-1941. Thurmond returned to the coal industry in 1941 and helped organize the Southern Coal Producers' Association, serving as its secretary until his retirement in 1958. The collection consists of correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, and other papers, including Thurmond's diaries for 1938-1967. Subjects include labor relations, taxes, mine safety, non-union fields, company stores, the United Mine Workers of America, race relations, and national politics. There is specific comment on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

Watson Family Papers 0.8 Linear Feet Summary: 10 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each)

Watson family

Personal papers of the Watson family in Marion County, including a genealogy of the Watson and Haymond families, newspaper clippings of weddings, obituaries, social and business activities, and European travel. Mention is made of coal mining development in Marion County, strikes, labor meetings, conservation, and improvement of farming practices. There is material on politics, industrial development, early iron mining, Marion county history, the Barrickville covered bridge, Beverly-Fairmont Turnpike, and the Presbyterian Church in Fairmont.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

West Virginia University, School of Mines, Records 6.38 Linear Feet (10 letter file boxes, 3 in. each; 5 small flat storage boxes, 3 in. each; 18 reels of microfilm, 1.75 in. each)

West Virginia University. School of Mines

The collection consists of correspondence, reports, surveys, financial and academic records, circulars, and other papers, including regulations of the National Bituminous Coal Commission and bulletins of various code authorities of the National Recovery Administration. Also included in the collection are correspondence, reports, and other papers (ca.1926-1940) of the Lynchburg Coal & Coke Co.

  1. West Virginia and Regional History Center

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