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Language
English
Abstract
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry
and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation
of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in
the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917; investigation
of the Wheeling Can Company, 1918; labor conditions in West Virginia, 1917; publicity releases of Winding Gulf Operators Association,
1923-1925; and eviction of miners; labor conditions in Logan County, 1923. Correspondents include D.T. Evans, Carl Hayden,
W.E. Borah, M.M. Neely, Van A. Bittner, J.P. White, F.J. Hayes, Mary "Mother" Jones, Thomas Haggerty, Woodrow Wilson, and
J.J. Cornwell.
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Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry,
A&M 2122, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.