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[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.
Biographical / Historical
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.
Related Material
2102, 2126, 2261, 2982
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Coal mining - Labor organization.
- Labor unions
- Union names.
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization.
- United Mine Workers of America
- United Mine Workers of America. Local 3934 (Hoard, W. Va.)
- United Mine Workers of America. Local 90 (Watson, W. Va.)
- Wolford, Elijah.