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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Progressive Mine Workers of America, Archives, A&M 2609, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Records of the Progressive Mine Workers of America.

Boxes 1-36 include: convention proceedings, minutes, contracts and agreements, financial records, correspondence, mine inspectors' reports, and grievance files which make up the bulk of the records. In addition there are printed National Industrial Recovery Administration and National Recovery Administration documents on the coal industry and a microfilm copy of the union's newspaper, THE PROGRESSIVE MINER, 1932-53.

Topics covered in the Progressive Mine Workers archives range from the daily governing of the union to wage negotiations with coal operators. There is considerable material on pensions and other benefits for Progressive Mine Workers of America members. Of special interest are minutes from the union's founding convention in 1932, the President's and Secretary-Treasurer's correspondence with local unions, 1947-55, and a notebook containing abstracts of grievance cases from 1932 to 1945.

Boxes 37-38 contain: two convention badges, both with medallions stamped "P.M.W.A District No. 1" (one badge is from the 11th Constitutional Convention, 1951; and the other from the 11th Scale Convention, 1952).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• American Federation of Labor
• Coal mining - Illinois.
• Coal mining - Labor organization.
• Coal mining.
• Grievance cases - labor unions.
• Illinois - Coal mining.
• Labor unions - grievance cases.
• Labor unions - pension plans.
• Pension plans - labor unions.
• Progressive Mine Workers of America
• The Progressive Miner
• Union names.
• Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America.
• Unions -- Coal
• Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization.
• United Mine Workers of America
• United States Bureau of Mines - Inspectors' reports.
• United States. National Recovery Administration
• United States. National Recovery Administration
• United States. National Recovery Administration
• United States. National Recovery Administration