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Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Dawson Coal Company Collection, A&M 2659, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Scope and Contents

Folder 1: pamphlet, OUTLINE OF WORK OF STATE BUREAU OF NEGRO WELFARE AND STATISTICS; broadside, AMERICA FIRST! YOUR GOVERNMENT, American Constitutional Association, Charleston, WV; catalogue of Cincinnati Pump Mfg. Co., n.d.; affidavits certifying ages of young men for employment; miscellaneous company correspondence concerning provision of non-union miners, job applications, engineering problems, and other mine business, including a letter from the Clarksburg Ku Klux Klan regarding activities of the chapter; broadside notifying UMWA members of government possession of mine; measuring card for sizing coal lumps. Folder 2: correspondence and memoranda concerning wage scales.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.
• American Constitutional Association (Charleston, West Virginia)
• Broadsides.
• Cincinnati Pump Manufacturing Company
• Clarksburg (W. Va.)
• Coal - coal operators.
• Coal mining - Wage scales.
• Coal mining - age affidavits.
• Coal mining - engineering problems.
• Coal mining - non-union miners.
• Coal mining -- Strikes
• Coal mining.
• Dawson Coal Company
• Dawson Colleries (Madisonville, Ky.)
• Dawson Daylight Coal Company (Madisonville, Ky.)
• Flat Creek Coal Company (Madisonville, Ky.)
• Irona Coal Company
• Ku Klux Klan (Clarksburg, W. Va.)
• Marshall Coal Company
• Reinecke Coal Mining Company (Madisonville, Ky.)
• Rosemont Coal Company.
• Ruckman Coal Company (Madisonville, Ky.)
• State Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics
• Trio Coal Company (Madisonville, Ky.)
• Unions - UMWA.
• United Mine Workers of America