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Language
English
Abstract
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, circulars,
legal files, etc.), date span for each series, linear feet for each series, and a brief description of the content of the
materials. It appears that some material related to the UMWA Health and Retirement Funds was donated to the West Virginia
Collection and is now part of A&M 2769, UMWA Health and Retirement Funds Archive. Other series from this collection appear
to be located at the Pennsylvania State University Special Collections Library.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], United Mine Workers of America Inventory, A&M 2982, West Virginia and
Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
The United Mine Workers of American (UMWA) was founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1890 by the merger of Knights of Labor Trade Assembly
No. 135 and the National Progressive Union of Miners and Mine Laborers. It is a labor organization most well-known for representing
coal miners, but the union also represents health care workers, truck drivers, manufacturing workers and public employees.