Mitchell, John Papers on Microfilm, 1887-1989
Collection Number: 5502 mf
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
John Mitchell Papers on Microfilm, 1887-1989
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5502 mf
Abstract:
The papers of John Mitchell contain correspondence (1885-1919), reports and proceedings,
pamphlets, and photogrprimarily in connection with Mitchell's leading role in the
coal-mining industry, the movement, and in Americal relations.
Creator:
Mitchell, John
Quanitities:
6.44 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
John Mitchell was born in Braidwood, Illinois on February 4, 1870, the son of Robert
Mitchell, a Scotch-Irish immigrant, and Martha Halley. His mother died soon after
he was born, and his father died when he was six. Reared by his father's third wife,
Mitchell had little opportunity for schooling and spent much of his time helping his
stepmother with "taking in" the neighborhood washing.
At the age of ten, Mitchell left home and went to work on a neighboring farm carrying
water to the hired help. When he was twelve, he returned to Braidwood where he began
to work in the mines as a trapper boy; although Illinois law required a miner to be
thirteen, the law was not enforced at the time. As a trapper boy, Mitchell opened
and closed the wooden doors that separated sections within the mines, an operation
which controlled ventilation. From trapper boy, he was slowly promoted to become a
mule driver, a miner's helper, and finally a full-fledged miner.
When he was sixteen, Mitchell went west and worked in the mines of Colorado, but
in 1888 he returned to Illinois and found employment in Spring Valley. After a ten-month
miners' strike in 1891, he left for New Mexico, but later returned to Spring Valley.
In 1892, he married Catherine O'Rourke and soon settled down to the miner's daily
routine. The panic of 1893 and a strike by the miners of Illinois in 1894 added to
the usual struggles of a young couple, and when a new English mine superintendent
fired all the Irish workers at Mitchell's mine following the strike, Mitchell found
himself without a job.
Mitchell found work in another camp where William D. Ryan, an old friend from Braidwood,
had previously worked. Ryan, now a railroad employee and secretary of the sub-district
of northern Illinois for the United Mine Workers, selected Mitchell as secretary-treasurer
of the sub-district, which in effect made Mitchell the financial officer for the UMW
in the state of Illinois. At the same time, Mitchell was sent to the state capital
at Springfield as a lobbyist for the miners' cause.
While lobbying on behalf of the Illinois UMW interests, Mitchell successfully used
his influence to secure reform in the state's labor laws. Through his efforts, a weighing
law, a child labor law, and an act establishing a two year apprenticeship for miners
were passed. Legislation also was enacted exempting the miners and operators from
anti-trust laws, thereby permitting the miners and operators to sit in joint convention
and establish appropriate price scales.
In 1897, Mitchell became a member of the Illinois UMW State Executive Board, and
Ryan became state secretary- treasurer. On July 4 of that year the national UMW declard
its first successful strike, and following its conclusion in September, Mitchell chaired
a joint meeting of operators and miners in northern Illinois.
In 1898, at the age of twenty-seven, Mitchell was sent as an Illinois delegate to
the National UMW convention. The vice- presidential aspirants of that year considered
this office a stepping stone to the presidency because they fully expected president
Michael Ratchford to resign and accept a position ith the United States Industrial
Commission. In this contest, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Illinois UMW leaders each sought
the vice presidential spot for a member from their respective states. With the help
of his friend Ryan, who by now was a member of the UMW National Executive Committee,
Mitchell was elected to this office. Ratchford accepted the post with the United States
Industrial Commission in September, 1898, and precipitated a heated controversy over
whether Mitchell should be allowed to succeed to the presidency. In an effort to avoid
a divisive struggle that an extraordinary convention in the fall of 1898 might entail,
Mitchell was permitted to succeed Ratchford as acting president of the UMW.
The summer and fall of 1898 were troubled times for a union which urgently needed
unity. West Virginia operators had not participated in the joint negotiations of 1898,
and were expanding their markets into those states where operators had signed agreements
with the UMW. Also, several operators in Illinois did not accept the agreement and
imported black strikebreakers, which provoked violence. Riots in such areas as Pana,
Illinois, on September 28, 1898, and the Virden massacre of October 12 of that year,
indicated a general lack of unification of the UMW in Illinois.
As National UMW vice-president, John Mitchell sought to organize workers in West
Virginia and to persuade the miners in Illinois to accept the agreement of the multi-state
joint conference. As acting president, he sent organizers into Kansas, Iowa, Arkansas,
Oklahoma and other fields.
In January, 1899, Mitchell was elected president of the national UMW in his own right
and in the fall of the year he went to eastern Pennsylvania in an attempt to organize
its anthracite fields. Working conditions in the Susquehanna and Schulykill valleys
were desperate, characterized by low wages, long hours, company owned houses and stores,
child labor, and a higher incidence of industrial accidents and deaths than in the
bituminous fields. Racial, ethnic, and language differences separated the miners in
the anthracite area.
The operators were controlled basically by seven coal-carrying railraods which in
turn were controlled by JP Morgan and Cornelius Vanderbilt. After some success in
the soft coal fields, Mitchell was tested in the anthracite region where unorganized
laborers numbered more than the enitre membership of the UMW. Mitchell enlisted the
aid of clergymen and worked to change the thinking of many who had opposed unions
initially. After five months of organizing, he succeeded in attracting to the ranks
of the UMW only ten thousand of the one hundred fifty thousand eligible miners.
Mitchell left the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania briefly to report his progress
to the UMW national office and to participate in the 1899 bituminous joint conference
which extracted a twenty percent wage increase. He returned to the anthracite fields
in August, 1900, and called a convention in Scranton, Pennsylvania, of the three anthracite
districts which formulated demands for a wage increase.
The anthracite miners had not received an advance in wages since 1880, and the UMW
National Executive Board authorized Mitchell to call a strike in the entire anthracite
field if the convention's demands were not met. The operators ignored his request
for arbitration, and the UMW called for a strike to commence on September 17, 1900.
Despite the low membership count, one hundred twelve thousand workers responded and
conducted the strike with restraint.
Writing John Mitchell on September 5, 1900, Daniel J. Keefe, president of the International
Longshoreman's Association, expresesd the hope that the UMW would see a satisfactory
conclusion to the coming struggle. Mitchell replied the next day that the coal operators
did not respond to his offer of arbitration and that he feared a strike would be declared.
Telegrams were sent on the twelfth to Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Hudson, Lackawanna,
Central of New Jersey, Reading, and Erie Railroads, notifying them of an imminent
strike and again requesting arbitration. On the same day, a circular was sent out
calling for a strike, the coal miners to cease work on the seventeenth if no settlement
was reached. Samuel Gompers, on the thirteenth, proferred what support he could.
On the same day, the UMW issued a circular stating the rationale for the strike.
The cost of living had increased by ten percent. Under these circumstances, lack of
a wage increase was tantamount to a wage reduction. Despite Pennsylvania statutes
specifying 2400 pounds as a legal ton of anthracite coal, the miners were compelled
to load a company ton ranging from 2700 to 4000 pounds, and, in addition, their wages
were docked up to 12 percent for any impurities therein. The car had to be topped
out at 18 inches above the edge. Miners were forced to purchase their own powder at
exorbitant rates, and, as a condition of employment, were required to ransact business
in "pluck me" stores.
On the sixteenth, R.N. Mason, an Ohio mine inspector, expressed the view that the
nation's attention was riveted upon the anthracite strike, and considered the endeavor
the "greatest labor struggle in the history of nations." In a letter of the seventeenth
to the Reverend John F. Power, Mitchell explained that the UMW struck only after all
reasonable measures to bring about an honorable settlement were exhausted, and noted
the personal attacks by an operator-controlled regional press. John Fahy, president
of UMW District 9 (Shamokin, Pennsylvania), informed Mitchell that there was an overwhelming
response to the strike call.
Beginning on the nineteenth, status reports on the strike were issued, which detailed
the percentage of striking and working miners in the anthracite fields. They also
noted at any given time whether the operators struck against were badly crippled,
slightly crippled, or continuing to function. Companies noted are Lehigh Valley, Reading,
Markle, Van Vickle, Pardee, Cross Creks, Morgans, and others. By this date, seventy-four
percent of the anthracite miners were on strike.
On October 1, 1900, the Reading Company posted a ten percent increase. The collection
includes copies of the October 1, 3, and 17 notices of the Reading Company, and an
October 2 notice of the Lackawanna. On the 12th, a convention convened at Scranton,
PA, for the purpose of deciding whether to accept the operators' offer. On the 13th,
the convention agreed to the operators' offer of a ten percent advance, provided that
the agreement would not expire until April 1, 1901, nd that the sliding scale would
be abolished. On the 17th, the Reading Company and others gave their consent. Letters
from Mitchell expressed his view that the strike was a weapon of the last resort.
He hoped that ultimately the operators in the anthracite fields would emulate the
practice of their bituminous confreres by engaging in joint interstate agreements
with the UMW, thereby decreasing the possibility of strikes.
The election of 1900 was an important factor in the early settlement of the 1900
anthracite strike. Marcus Alonzo Hanna, a spokesman for big business and a staunch
supporter of the Republican party, sougt to avoid the embarrassment of a labor-management
conflict for President William McKinley. When the operators refused to meet with Mitchell,
Hanna arranged a meeting with JP Morgan, a financier of the operators. On October
3, 1900, labor delegates in convention proposed a ten percent increase in wages, abolition
of the sliding wage scale (i.e., a scale dependent upon market fluctuations), and
the recognition of workers' grievance committees. The operators refused to acknowledge
the convention, but in October 10, 1900, posted notices which implied acceptance of
the terms. The workers declared victory, and on October 29, 1900, the strike ended
officially. This date was later declared Mitchell Day by the miners because of the
UMW president's role in the strike.
Despite his victory in the anthracite fields of Pennsylvania, John Mitchell was faced
with opposition in the ranks. At the January, 1901, UMW national convention, he was
confronted by Thomas Lewis, Patrick Dolan, and socialists and radicals within the
union. Lewis, the national UMW vice-president, led whatever serious opposition there
was to Mitchell, though to no avail.
At the same time, Mitchell found himself confronting the American Federation of Labor
in the matter of a jurisdictional dispute. Samuel Gompers, president of the AFL, rebuked
the UMW and Mitchell for gathering into its ranks unskilled workers and skilled craftsmen
from separate trades such as the engineers, pumpmen, firemen, carpenters, and blacksmiths
who worked in and around the mines. Mitchell defended the practice as essential in
that three percent of the workers who were skilled could throw the ninety-seven percent
of the remaining miners out of work by striking. Gompers later conceded Mitchell's
point, which resulted in the Scranton Declaration permitting the UMW exclusively to
continue the practice.
The Strike of 1900 was but a skirmish compared to the anthracite coal strike of 1902.
In that year, the miners perceived their conditions as so desperate that they were
willing to sacrifice heavily to have their grievances properly rectified. The success
of the miners in a struggle for better wages and working conditions depended on the
ability of the UMW to organize the workers and to convince the operators to accept
demands they adamantly opposed. This movement was personally directed by John Mitchell
as president of the UMW and architect of the strategy for the miners.
The January convention of the UMW in Indianapolis authorized Mitchell to call, with
the advice of the National Executive Board, a sectional or national suspension of
work in the bituminous regions. This action was designed to assist him if he considered
a nationwide strike necessary in order to organize the anthracite regions, where previously
the operators had done nothing to recognize the legitimacy of the union. On February
13, 1902, Mitchell sent invitations to all the operators of mines in the anthracite
regions to meet the following month to discuss wages and prices in a joint conference.
Within a week, he received negative replies from every operator. Also, in February,
he met with JP Morgan to secure his intervention as financier for the operators. This
tactic had succeeded and resulted in a wage increase two years before, but this time
Morgan told Mitchell that he must attempt to deal with the operators on his own.
On March 18, representatives of three union districts of the anthracite region met
in Shamokin, Pennsylvania, to discuss demands to present when the current wage scale
expired on April 1, 1902. The Shamokin Convention demaned an eight hour day, a twenty
percent increase in wages, a rate of sixty cents per ton fixed at 2,240 pounds, and
recognition by the operators of the union in a contractual agreement.
The Industrial Department of the National Civic Federation, on request of the miners,
arranged a meeting between railroad presidents, who exercised control over the mine
operators, and a miners' committee. This meeting was fruitless, but a strike was postponed
for thirty days. On May 1, the National Civic Federation transmitted John Mitchell's
offer of a five per cent increase or arbitration. The operators refused the increase
or any settlement by arbitration. On May 13, an executive committee of miners ordered
a temporary work stoppage and on May 15, at a convention of the three districts' representatives
in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, the miners voted, despite Mitchell's opposition, to extend
the strike. Mitchell urged the miners to act together and avoid violence.
Mitchell issued a call on June 18 for a special national convention to meet in Indianapolis
on July 18. Sentiment among the bituminous mine leaders was strongly in favor of a
national strike in sympathy with those striking in Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
Mitchell opposed a sympathetic strike, asserting that they usually failed and that
the workers who had union contracts should honor them as sacred. Also, he advised
the workers that the striking miners would need financial assistance desperately during
the strike, which could be provided only by assessing the other miners.
Mitchell then detailed to the special convention his plan for the best way to aid
those in the three anthracite districts: the national treasury should contribute $50,000,
all local treasuries should give what they could, and a one dollar assessment per
member should be made. Further, all union officials earning above a certain amount
should be assessed twenty-five percent of their salaries. Finally, an appeal to other
unions and the general public for financial support was outlined.
By August and September, the effects of the strike were apparent in the major eastern
cities; for example, the price of a ton of coal in New York City jumped from five
to twenty dollars. With winter approaching and neither side acknowledging defeat,
politicians and public opinion urged a settlement, the public having become more sympathetic
to the strikers as their working conditions and the restraint of their strike conduct
were publicized. In late September, a letter from George Baer, president of the Philadelphia
and Reading Railroad, implying a divine right of capitalists to dictate business terms,
received widespread publicity that embarrassed the operators. On September 26 the
Philadelphia and Reading Railroad demanded that its workers return to their posts
or be fired.
On September 28, Pennsylvania Governor Stone pledged state troops to protect any
miner who desired to return to work. The strike continued. On September 29, as Mitchell
and the district leaders were discussing plans to propose public ownership of the
mines, President Theodore Roosevelt announced his intention to take a personal hand
in the crisis. The President sent telegrams to Mitchell and the operators requesting
a meeting at the White House on October 3.
John Mitchell and the three district presidents met with Roosevelt, five mine operators
including Baer, and three cabinet officials. President Roosevelt acknowledged no legal
right or duty to intervene, but appealed to the men's patriotism to settle the strike.
Mitchell acknowledged the gravity of the situation, but recounted that the offers
to meet with the operators were rebuffed. He proposed that the union would accept
as binding the decision of a presidential commission. This evidently suited the President.
After an adjournment to allow time for the operators to draw up a written response,
George Baer read the statement. He outlined the President's duties "to restore majesty
of the law." The operators refused conciliation and insisted that the President restore
law and order. Roosevelt was infuriated by the operators. Later efforts by the President
were rebuffed until the pressure of public opinion indicated that the next session
of Congress might declare public ownership of the mines.
The operators knew that Roosevelt would not veto such legislation, but would eagerly
welcome it. On October 13, J.P. Morgan went to the White House to announce that the
operators would accept arbitration. The President appointed a commission of seven
members agreeable to the operators and Mitchell. On October 20 and 21, the anthracite
miners, after a debate, decided to return to work on October 23.
The report of the Anthracite Coal Strike Commission was issued on March 21, 1903.
After five months of testimony from 588 witnesses, including four days of intensive
cross examination of John Mitchell by Wayne MacVeagh, counsel for the Pennsylvania
Coal Company, the Commission formulated its decision. The miners were awarded a ten
percent increase in wages, an eight-hour day for engineers and firemen and nine hours
for other miners. The commission refused to compel union recognition, and, while denying
the demand for a standard weight, it established a sliding scale with a procedure
for determining the scale on the basis of market conditions. A permanent conciliation
board, composed of one miner and one operator for each of the three anthracite districts,
was established to settle grievances. Despite some glaring defects, the Commission's
decision was acceptable to the UMW.
From March, 1903, to March, 1908, when Mitchell stepped down as UMW president, the
union experienced a period of unsteady growth. Dues-paying membership fluctuated bteween
1904 and 1906 because workers on strike could not contribute while unemployed. The
depression of 1903 pressured the union to accept a reduction in wages of five and
one-half percent. In addition to widespread unemployment, strikes occurred when operators
reduced wages further than the 1904 joint agreement reached with operators in Pennsylvania,
Ohio, indiana, and Illinois. The disputes in the anthracite region of eastern Pennsylvania
were governed by a conciliation board established in 1903; often these disputes were
not settled to the satisfaction of union members, and Mitchell noted apathy and a
decline in membership in that region. He toured the region during the summer of 1905,
and the rolls increased from 34,000 to 80,000. In August he addressed 150,000 people
at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, with President Roosevelt on the platform. However,
Mitchell foresaw imminent difficulties in eastern Pennsylvania as contracts were to
expire in less than a year.
The annual January convention of mineworkers in 1906 set the strategy for a coming
meeting with the operators. The three anthracite districts left the negotiating in
the hands of a committee headed by Mitchell. A special convention formed ten demands
for the upcoming joint interstate conference with the operators scheduled for February
2, 1906. At that meeting Patrick Dolan, president of district 5, voted against the
instructions of his miners in favor of a resolution by the operators to extend the
reduced wage scale for two years. He was the only labor leader to vote with the operators.
The conference ended abruptly, with the operators clearly showing a stronger position
against a divided union. This impasse was the most serious threat to the strength
of the union since Mitchell had assumed office.
In the next attempt to reach a settlement, H.C. Perry, president of the Illinois
miners, introduced a resolution authorizing national and district officials to make
two year agreements with any operator willing to restore the 1903 scale. This resolution
in effect repudiated the policy of the previous decade of uniting the labor unions
in the central competitive field until all the operators signed an agreement. Thomas
Lewis of Ohio opposed the policy of district settlements, as he realized that operators
in Ohio would not restore the 1903 scale unless forced to by the entire regional conference.
After thorough discussion, Mitchell endorsed the policy and the Perry resolution was
adopted by vote. Although much bitterness accompanied this decision, it proved to
be a modest victory for the unions. By mid-April, 1906, most operators of unionized
fields had signed the 1903 scale agreement and by mid-July, the rest of the operators
submitted.
During the January, 1907, convention, after Mitchell read his report concerning the
previous year's activities, Vice President Lewis read a scathing criticism of the
union's policies for 1906. Lewis charged that the opportunity for an industry wide
strike during a period of relative prosperity had been missed by the union. He also
charged that, without desirable concessions, the sectional contracts caused declining
morale and membership. Although Lewis was rebuked and Mitchell's action was endorsed
by a committee report, the controversy continued.
In April, 1907, Mitchell suffered an appendectomy from which he did not fully recover
until June. Late that month he traveled west to Montana and Wyoming on UMW business.
By October of that year, Mitchell was again in poor health, and as a result, announced
that he would not stand for reelection. On March 19, 1908, he stepped down as president
before an appreciative convention.
Mitchell accepted employment with the National Civic Federation in August, 1908.
Organized in 1900, the Federation sought to study and debate issues affecting United
States' foreign and domestic policy, to mobilize enlightened public opinion on these
issues, and to secure appropriate legislation relating to the same. While affiliated
with this group, Mitchell was chairman of its Trade Agreement Department. In this
capacity, he hoped to be able to bring about a better understanding by employers of
the aims and methods of trade unionism. While he considered the work worthwhile, he
did confide to Samuel Gompers that it was a bit of a letdown after his UMW endeavors.
Unfortunately for Mitchell, the National Civic Federation was unpopular with many
militant labor leaders because its membership included bitter foes of unionism. The
radical element within the UMW continuously sought to persuade Mitchell to resign
his position; they succeeded in 1911 when the union passed a resolution that made
it a matter of expulsion for any UMW member to belong to the National Civic Federation.
Between 1911 and 1915, Mitchell was involved in the activities of the National Child
Labor Committee, the American Academy of Political and Social Science, the American
Association for Labor Legislation, New York Peace Society, National Committee on Prison
Labor, Travelers' Aid Society, and the National Woman's Trade Union League. Also during
this period he undertook extensive public speaking tours for the Lyceum and Chautauqua
circuits and under the guidance of his own agent. In June, 1915, he was appointed
by Governor Glynn as chairman of the New York State Industrial Commission, a post
he held until his death in 1919. As chairman, Mitchell was frequently called on to
investigate and arbitrate labor-management disputes. Mitchell's duties in this capacity
included the prevention of violations of New York's labor laws and the administration
of the Workmen's Compensation Law and the State Insurance Fund.
During World War I, Mitchell carried the additional burden of the chairmanship of
the New York State Food Commission. The Commission kept an eye on food production,
offering advice on how to increase production and how to save food for the war effort,
as well as opposing food price gouging and profiteering. Simultaneously, Mitchell
was president of the New York State Council of Farms and Markets, chairman of the
Federal Food Board, and chairman of the Federal Milk Commission for the eastern states.
His last public appearance was in Syracuse before the New York State Federation of
labor in August, 1919.
In early August, 1919, Mitchell presided at a public hearing in the Rome brass and
copper strike. After the bitterly contested hearing closed, he set out with friends
on a vacation trip, but shortly after the trip began, he experienced a gall stone
attack and returned to New York City for surgery. He died on September 9, 1919, following
an operation at Post-Graduate Hospital. Funeral services were conducted at the Roman
Catholic Cathedral of the Diocese of Scranton, Pennsylvania, at which city his remains
were interred.
The papers of John Mitchell contain correspondence (1885-1919), reports and proceedings,
pamphlets, and photographs primarily in connection with Mitchell's leading role in
the coal-mining industry, the labor movement, and in American industrial relations.
Correspondence constitutes the bulk of the collection. It can be divided roughly
into three major areas, reflecting Mitchell's affiliations with the United Mine Workers
of America, the National Civic Federation, and New York State Commissions. There is
much correspondence relating to the affairs of the American Federation of Labor, as
well.
Other significant files include minutes of the United Mine Workers National Executive
Board (1900-1908), A.F.of L. Executive Council minutes (1902-1913), and those of the
New York State Food Commission (1917-1919) the New York State Workman's Compensation
Commission (1914-1919) and the New York State Industrial Commission (1914-1919).
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Names:
Mitchell, John
Turcheneske, John A.
American Federation of Labor
National Civic Federation (U.S.)
New York (State) -- Food Commission
New York (State) -- Industrial Commission.
New York (State) -- Workman's Compensation Commission.
United Mine Workers of America.
Subjects:
Anthracite Coal Strike, Pennsylvania, 1900.
Anthracite Coal Strike, United States, 1902.
Coal-miners.
Industrial relations -- New York (State) -- State supervision.
Labor leaders.
Miners.
Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining industry -- United States.
CONTAINER LIST
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Correspondence. 7/12/1885-6/30/1900
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Reel 2 |
Correspondence. 7/1/1900-6/30/1901
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Reel 3 |
Correspondence. 7/1/1901-1901, n.d.
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Reel 4A |
Correspondence. 1/1/1902-10/13/1902
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Reel 4B |
Correspondence. 1/1/1902-10/13/1902. Copy 2.
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Reel 5A |
Correspondence. 10/14/1902-2/30/03
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Reel 5B |
Correspondence. 10/14/1902-2/30/03. Copy 2.
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Reel 6 |
Correspondence. 3/1/1903-10/24/1903
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Reel 7 |
Correspondence. 10/26/1903-1/25/1904
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Reel 8 |
Correspondence. 1/26/1904-12/6/1904
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Reel 9 |
Correspondence. 12/7/1904-6/15/1905
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Reel 10 |
Correspondence. 6/16/1905-3/14/1906
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Reel 11 |
Correspondence. 3/15/1906-4/9/1907
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Reel 12 |
Correspondence. 4/10/1907-12/5/1907
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Reel 13 |
Correspondence. 12/6/1907-7/24/1908
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Reel 14 |
Correspondence. 7/25/1908-12/8/1908
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Reel 15 |
Correspondence. 12/9/1908-3/15/1909
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Reel 16 |
Correspondence. 3/16/1909-8/31/1909
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Reel 17 |
Correspondence. 7/1/1909-12/4/1909
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Reel 18 |
Correspondence. 12/5/1909-1909, n.d.
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Reel 19 |
Correspondence. 1/1/1910-5/7/1910
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Reel 20 |
Correspondence. 5/9/1910-9/24/1910
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Reel 21 |
Correspondence. 9/26/1910-1910 n.d.
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Reel 22 |
Correspondence. 1910, n.d.-3/20/1911
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Reel 23 |
Correspondence. 3/21/1911-7/30/1911
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Reel 24 |
Correspondence. 8/1/1911-12/31/1911
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Reel 25 |
Correspondence. 1911, n.d.-3/11/1912
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Reel 26 |
Correspondence. 3/12/1912-8/9/1912
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Reel 27 |
Correspondence. 9/10/1912-1912, n.d.
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Reel 28 |
Correspondence. 1/1/1913-5/5/1913
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Reel 29 |
Correspondence. 5/5/1913-10/30/1913
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Reel 30 |
Correspondence. 11/2/1913-4/11/1914
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Reel 31 |
Correspondence. 4/13/1914-12/17/1914
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Reel 32 |
Correspondence. 12/18/1914-10/15/1915
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Reel 33 |
Correspondence. 10/18/1915-10/30/1916
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Reel 34 |
Correspondence. 11/1/1916-7/30/1917
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Reel 35 |
Correspondence. 8/1/1917-3/4/1918
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Reel 36 |
Correspondence. 3/5/1918-12/17/1918
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Reel 37 |
Correspondence. 12/18/1918-6/19/1919
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Reel 38 |
Correspondence. 6/23/1919-Undated
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Reel 39 |
Undated correspondence.
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Reel 40 |
Undated correspondence.
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Reel 41 |
Minutes, Proceedings, Constitutions and Reports 1891-1908
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Reel 41 | 1 |
Minutes of the National Executive Board, 1900, Feb-1908, Mar
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1900-1908 |
Reel 41 | 2 |
Proceedings of the First Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
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1891 |
Scope and Contents
Held at Columbus, Ohio on February 10-17, 1891. Columbus: Myers Bros., 1891. 64 pp
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Reel 41 | 3 |
Proceedings of the Ninth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
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1899 |
Scope and Contents
Held at Columbus, Ohio, January Eleventh, 1898. Indianapolis: Indiana Newspaper Union,
1898. 32pp.
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Reel 41 | 4 |
Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1899 |
Scope and Contents
Held at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, January Ninth, 1899. Indianapolis: Indiana Newspaper
Union, 1899. 43pp.
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Reel 41 | 5 |
Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1900 |
Scope and Contents
Held at Indianapolis, Indiana, January Fifteenth, Nineteen Hundred. Indianapolis:
Indiana Newspaper Union, 1900. 68pp.
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Reel 41 | 6 |
Proceedings of the Twelfth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Held at Indianapolis, Indiana, January 21 to 30 (Inclusive). Indianapolis: Hollenbeck
Press, 1901. 112pp
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Reel 41 | 7 |
Minutes of the Thirteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
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1902 |
Scope and Contents
Held at Indianapolis, Indiana, January 20 to 29, 1902, Inclusive. Indianapolis: Hollenbeck
Press, 1902. 188pp.
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Reel 41 | 8 |
Minutes of the Fourteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1903 |
Scope and Contents
Held in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, January 19 to 27 Inclusive. Indianapolis:
Hollenbeck Press, 1903. 508pp.
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Reel 41 | 9 |
Minutes of the Fifteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1904 |
Scope and Contents
Indianapolis: Cheltenham Press, 1904. 319pp.
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Reel 41 | 10 |
Minutes of the Sixteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Held in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, January 16 to 23, 1905 Inclusive. Indianapolis:
Cheltenham Press, 1905. 363pp.
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Reel 41 | 11 |
Minutes of the 17th Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1906 |
Scope and Contents
Indianapolis: The Cheltenham Press, 1906. 466pp.
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Reel 42 |
Minutes, Proceedings, Constitutions and Reports 1891-1908
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Reel 42 | 1 |
Minutes of the Special Convention: United Mine Workers of America
|
1906 |
Scope and Contents
Held in the German House: Indianapolis, Indiana, March 15-30, 1906. Indianapolis:
Cheltenham Press, 1906. 102pp.
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Reel 42 | 2 |
Proceedings of the Eighteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1907 |
Scope and Contents
Held in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, Jan. 15-22, '07, Inclusive. Indianapolis:
Cheltenham Press, 1907. 466pp.
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Reel 42 | 3 |
Proceedings of the Nineteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1908 |
Scope and Contents
Held in the City of Indianapolis, Ind. January 21 to February 3, Inclusive. Indianapolis:
Cheltenham Press, 1908. 536p.
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Reel 42 | 4 |
Proceedings of the Reconvened Nineteenth Annual Convention of the United Mine Workers
of America
|
1908 |
Scope and Contents
Held in the City of Indianapolis, Indiana, March 12th to March 20, Inclusive, 1908.
Indianapolis: Cheltenham Press, 1908. 112pp.
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Reel 42 | 5 |
Constitution and Laws of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1890 |
Scope and Contents
Np, 1890. (4pp)
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Reel 42 | 6 |
Constitution and Laws of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1896 |
Scope and Contents
Established January 25th, 1890, Amended 1896. Columbus: Myers Bros., 1896. 16pp
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Reel 42 | 7 |
Constitution and Laws of the United Mine Workers of America
|
1900 |
Scope and Contents
Revision, 1900. Indianapolis: Indiana Newspaper Union, 1900. 16pp
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Reel 42 | 8 |
Constitution and Laws of the National Union, United Mine Workers of America
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Revision, 1901. Joliet: Republican Printing, 1901. 24pp.
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Reel 42 | 9 |
"Report of Special convention of the United Mineworkers of America Called to Consider
the Strike on the Anthracite Field, Indianapolis, Ind., July 17-19, 1902."
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
ts. 105pp.
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Reel 43A |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 1. American Federation of Labor,
Minutes of the Executive Committee, Apr 14, 1902-Oct 21-1911. Copy 2.
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Reel 43B |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 1. American Federation of Labor,
Minutes of the Executive Committee, Apr 14, 1902-Oct 21-1911
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Reel 44 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 2. American Federation of Labor,
President's Reports, 1907-1910; Part 3. American Federation of Labor, Secretary's
Reports, 1902-1913-
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Reel 44 | 1 |
American Federation of Labor, Minutes of the Executive Committee
|
1912 |
Scope and Contents
January 8, 1912
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Reel 44 | 2 |
American Federation of Labor, President's Reports
|
1907-1910 |
Reel 44 | 3 |
American Federation of Labor, Secretary's Reports
|
1902-1913 |
Reel 45 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 4. New York State Food Commission,
Minutes, 1917-1919; Part 5. New York State Industrial Commission, Administrative Minutes
and Index, 1914-Feb 29, 1916
|
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Reel 45 | 1 |
New York State Food Commission, Minutes
|
1917-1919 |
Reel 45 | 2 |
New York State Industrial Commission, Administrative Minutes and Index
|
1914-1916 |
Scope and Contents
1914-February 29, 1916
|
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Reel 46 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 5. New York State Industrial
Commission, Administrative Minutes and Index, Mar 2, 1916-Dec 27 1916
|
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Reel 47 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 5. New York State Industrial
Commission, Administrative Minutes and Index, Jan 3, 1917 - Dec 27, 1917
|
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Reel 48 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 5. New York State Industrial
Commission, Administrative Minutes and Index, Jan 2, 1918 - Sept 25, 1918
|
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Reel 49 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 6. New York State Workman's
Compensation Commission, Minutes, May 29, 1914
|
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Reel 49 | 1 |
New York State Workman's Compensation Commission, Minutes
|
1914 |
Scope and Contents
May 29, 1914.
|
|||
Reel 49 | 2 |
New York State Industrial Commission, Administrative Minutes and Index
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
October 1, 1918.
|
|||
Reel 50 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 6. New York State Workman's
Compensation Commission, Minutes, Jun 1, 1914 - Jul 31, 1914
|
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Reel 51 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 6. New York State Workman's
Compensation Commission, Minutes, Aug 3, 1914 - Sept 21, 1914
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Reel 52 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 6. New York State Workman's
Compensation Commission, Minutes, Oct 1, 1914 - Feb 27, 1915
|
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Reel 53 |
Miscellaneous Minutes, Proceedings, and Reports. Part 6. New York State Workman's
Compensation Commission, Minutes, Mar 1, 1915 - Jul 9, 1919
|
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Reel 54 |
Printed Matter, 1888-1912
|
||
Reel 54 | 1 |
Adler, Felix. The Ethics of the Labor Struggle.
|
|
Scope and Contents
New York: Ethical Record, nd. 30pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 2 |
Adler, Felix. The Evils Disclosed by the Coal Strike.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
New York: Ethical Record, 1902. 24pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 3 |
Agreement Between Miners and Operators of the Eighth District of Illinois.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Peoria: np, no date. 14pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 4 |
Amberg, Emil. The Fraction of Progress.
|
1903 |
Scope and Contents
Detroit: The American Press, 1903. [7pp]
|
|||
Reel 54 | 5 |
Argument of Hon. C.N. Brumm of Council for the United Mine Workers of America.
|
1903 |
Scope and Contents
Philadelphia: Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1903. 42pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 6 |
Argument of H.T. Newcomb of Council for the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company.
|
1903 |
Scope and Contents
Philadelphia: Anthracite Coal Strike Commission, 1903. 104pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 7 |
Beebe, James C. Common Sense Measures for Protection to Mines and Miners.
|
1907 |
Scope and Contents
No place or publisher, [1907]. 11pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 8 |
Casson, Herbert N. Common Sense on the Labor Question.
|
|
Scope and Contents
New York: Gold sleeve Press, no date. 61pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 9 |
Chaplin, Heman. The Coal Mines and the Public.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
New York: J.B. Millet Co., 1902. 63pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 10 |
Coal Miners' Strike, 1897: Supplement to the Sixteenth Annual Coal Report of the Bureau
of Labor Statistics.
|
1897 |
Scope and Contents
Springfield: State of Illinois, 1897. 29pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 11 |
Compilation of Grievances and Action Thereon.
|
1903 |
Scope and Contents
Scranton: Sanders Printing Co., 1903. 70pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 12 |
Danryid, Lemuel. History and Philosophy of the Eight Hour Movement
|
1899 |
Scope and Contents
Washington: Allied Printing, 1899. 15 pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 13 |
Fourth Annual Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Faithorn Printing Co., 1901. 188pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 14 |
Gunton, George. The Economic and Social Importance of the Eight Hour Movement.
|
1889 |
Scope and Contents
Washington: Allied Printing, 1889. 24 pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 15 |
Gompers, Samuel. The Eight Hour Workday: Its Inauguration, Enforcement, and Influence.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Washington: American Federation of Labor, nd. 9pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 16 |
The Illinois Coal Operators Association: Joint Interstate Agreement, District and
Local Agreements for the Year Ending March 31, 1901.
|
1900 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Allied Printing, 1900. 30pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 17 |
The Illinois Coal Operators Association: Joint Interstate Agreement, District and
Local Agreements, for the Scale Year Ending March 31, 1902.
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Allied Printing, 1901. 38pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 18 |
The Illinois Coal Operators Association: Joint Interstate Agreement, District and
Local Agreements for the Scale Year Ending March 31, 1903.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Faithorn Printing, 1902. 95pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 19 |
Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana,
and Illinois.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Joliet: Allied Printing, 1906. 272pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 20 |
Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Western Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
|
1908 |
Scope and Contents
Toledo: no publisher, 1908. 275pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 21 |
John Mitchell Exposed.
|
|
Scope and Contents
New York: Labor News Co., no date. 32pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 22 |
Justi, Herman. The Organization of Capital.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: The Illinois Coal Operators Association, 1902. 51pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 23 |
Labor and the War.
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
New York: Allied Printing, 1918. [16 pp]
|
|||
Reel 54 | 24 |
McNeill, George. The Eight Hour Primer.
|
1889 |
Scope and Contents
Washington: Allied Printing, 1889. 19pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 25 |
Mitchell, John. The Coal Strike.
|
|
Scope and Contents
No place, publisher, or date. 6pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 26 |
Minutes of the Joint Conference of Anthracite Mine Operators and Correspondence Connected
Therewith.
|
1906 |
Scope and Contents
New York: C.G. Burgoyne, 1906. 173pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 27 |
Negotiations of Anthracite Coal Operators and Anthracite Mine Workers: Addresses of
John P. White, International President, and William Green, International Statistician.
|
1912 |
Scope and Contents
Indianapolis: Cheltenham-Aetna Press, 1912. 69pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 28 |
The Next Great Step for Labor.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Chicago: Hollister Bros. Press, no date. 32pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 29 |
Official Report of Proceedings of the Joint Conference of Miners and Operators.
|
1898 |
Scope and Contents
Columbus, Ohio: Lawrence Press Co., [1898]. 35pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 30 |
Organization of the Association of Commissioners and Secretaries.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: no publisher, 1905. 16pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 31 |
Plain Facts About the Conditions in the Coal Mining Industry.
|
|
Scope and Contents
No place, publisher, or date. 43pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 32 |
Platform and Constitution of the National Party. Chicago:
|
|
Scope and Contents
Chicago: New York: no publisher, no date. 19pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 33 |
Proceedings of Joint Convention and Constitutional Laws of the National Progressive
Union of Miners and Mine Laborers.
|
1888 |
Scope and Contents
Columbus: no publisher, 1888. 32pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 34 |
Proceedings of the Joint Convention of Miners and Operators.
|
1906 |
Scope and Contents
Charleston: no publisher, 1906. 342pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 35 |
Proceedings of the Third Annual Convention of the National Federation of Miners and
Mine Laborers of the United States of Territories.
|
1887 |
Scope and Contents
Columbus: Myers Brothers, 1887. 16pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 36 |
Program for Constructive Democracy: Message and War Program of the National Party:
An Appeal to the Heart and Brain of America.
|
1918 |
Scope and Contents
Chicago: no publisher, [1918]. 19pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 37 |
Roberts, Peter. "The Anthracite Conflict."
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Reprint. Yale Review, Nov. 1902. 11pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 38 |
Second Annual Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, and Pennsylvania.
|
1899 |
Scope and Contents
Pittsburgh: The Myers and Shinkle Co., 1899. 68pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 39 |
Seventh Annual Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Western Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.
|
1904 |
Scope and Contents
Indianapolis: C.L. Scroggs Co., 1904. 254pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 40 |
Speech Delivered By John Mitchell in Support of the Report of the Committee on Boycotts.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Toronto: Am. Federation of Labor, no date. 7pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 41 |
Speech of William B. Wilson on Mitchell Day.
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Indianapolis: no publisher, 1901. 20pp
|
|||
Reel 54 | 42 |
Strikes are War! War is Hell!! N
|
|
Scope and Contents
New York: Charles Francis Press, no date. 23pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 43 |
Third Annual Joint Conference of Coal Miners and Operators of Illinois, Indiana, Ohio,
and Pennsylvania.
|
1900 |
Scope and Contents
Indianapolis: no publisher, 1900. 158pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 44 |
Topical Plan of Inquiry on Conditions of Labor and Capital Employed in the Mining
Industry.
|
|
Scope and Contents
No place, publisher or date. 9pp.
|
|||
Reel 54 | 45 |
True Friend of the Workingman: M.A. Hanna's Record.
|
|
Scope and Contents
Akron: Allied Printing, no date. 15pp.
|
|||
Reel 55 |
Photographs
|
||
Reel 55 | 1 |
John Mitchell
|
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Reel 55 | 2 |
John Mitchell
|
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Reel 55 | 3 |
John Mitchell
|
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Reel 55 | 4 |
John Mitchell
|
|
Reel 55 | 5 |
John Mitchell (left), John Fallou ( right)
|
|
Reel 55 | 6 |
John Mitchell
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Mt. Carmel, Pennsylvania, September 8, 1905
|
|||
Reel 55 | 7 |
John Mitchell.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Scranton, Pennsylvania, 1902
|
|||
Reel 55 | 8 |
John Mitchell's sons: left to right: Robert, James, Richard.
|
1908 |
Scope and Contents
Spring Valley, Illinois, 1908
|
|||
Reel 55 | 9 |
Rufus M. Barnes
|
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Reel 55 | 10 |
Beech Flats Coal Company. Coal Shute
|
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Reel 55 | 11 |
Beech Flats Coal Company. Steam Shovel
|
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Reel 55 | 12 |
Beech Flats Coal Company. Shunting of coal cars
|
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Reel 55 | 13 |
Beech Flats Coal Company. Steam shovel strip mining
|
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Reel 55 | 14 |
Joseph Brustead. West Bay City, Michigan
|
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Reel 55 | 15 |
Standing, left to right: Thomas Cairns, James Kennedy; Sitting, left to right: Henry
Bausfield, Benjamin Davis, John H. Walker
|
|
Reel 55 | 16 |
Canadian Pacific Railway station.
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, August, 1901
|
|||
Reel 55 | 17 |
Coal Breaker
|
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Reel 55 | 18 |
Clarence S. Darrow
|
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Reel 55 | 19 |
W.H. Deltrey
|
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Reel 55 | 20 |
Charles Duncan
|
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Reel 55 | 21 |
The "Edward F." Shaft, dumps and mill.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Hassel, Montana
|
|||
Reel 55 | 22 |
Chris Evans
|
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Reel 55 | 23 |
W.R. Fairley
|
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Reel 55 | 24 |
W.R. Fairley
|
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Reel 55 | 25 |
Joseph Gilneartain
|
|
Reel 55 | 26 |
Herman Justi
|
1906 |
Scope and Contents
Commissioner, Illinois Coal Operators' Association
|
|||
Reel 55 | 27 |
Kehota Mining Company. Steam shovel strip mining
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
Redfield, Ohio, November 1916
|
|||
Reel 55 | 28 |
Kehota Mining Company. Steam shovel
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
Redfield, Ohio, November 1916
|
|||
Reel 55 | 29 |
Kehota Mining Company. Steam shovel
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
Redfield, Ohio, November 1916
|
|||
Reel 55 | 30 |
Kehota Mining Company. Steam shovel
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
Redfield, Ohio, November 1916
|
|||
Reel 55 | 31 |
Kehota Mining Company. Coal Shute
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
Redfield, Ohio, November 1916
|
|||
Reel 55 | 32 |
Kehota Mining Company. Coal Shute.
|
1916 |
Scope and Contents
Redfield, Ohio, November 1916
|
|||
Reel 55 | 33 |
Edward A. Kirshfield
|
|
Reel 55 | 34 |
Capt. J.J. Kittinger, USMC.
|
1919 |
Scope and Contents
Washington, DC, June 1, 1919
|
|||
Reel 55 | 35 |
T.L. Lewis
|
1900 |
Scope and Contents
Bridgeport, Ohio, November 17, 1900
|
|||
Reel 55 | 36 |
William Little
|
|
Reel 55 | 37 |
Peter McCall
|
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Reel 55 | 38 |
W.N. Naskinz
|
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Reel 55 | 39 |
W.B. Nelson
|
|
Reel 55 | 40 |
New Orleans, Louisiana, Jackson Park
|
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Reel 55 | 41 |
New York State Food Commission
|
1918 |
Reel 55 | 42 |
Thomas C. Parker
|
|
Reel 55 | 43 |
D.D. Price
|
|
Reel 55 | 44 |
Reading, Pennsylvania. Downtown
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Penn St. looking east toward Mt. Penn from Fifth St.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 45 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 46 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. President Theodore Roosevelt addressing
crowd
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 47 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. President Theodore Roosevelt accepting
audience's accolades
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 48 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. President Theodore Roosevelt in Parade
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 49 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. President Theodore Roosevelt in Parade
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 50 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Parade
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 51 |
Roosevelt Day at Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Parade,
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
August 10, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 52 |
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial
|
|
Scope and Contents
Commemorating peaceful settlement of 1902 anthracite coal strike
|
|||
Reel 55 | 53 |
W.C. Scott
|
1899 |
Scope and Contents
December 23, 1899.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 54 |
Sunnyslope, Alberta
|
|
Reel 55 | 55 |
United Mine Workers of America. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
After convention had adjourned. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 56 |
United Mine Workers of America. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Left to right: George W. Harltein (Secretary, District 9), John Mitchell, Mr. Barrett
(reporter, Scranton Truth), on way to meeting of District Executive Boards. Scranton,
Pennsylvania, May 7, 1902.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 57 |
United Mine Workers of America. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
"Riot" during strike. Olyphant, Pennsylvania
|
|||
Reel 55 | 58 |
United Mine Workers of America. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
After a mass meeting. Scranton, Pennsylvania
|
|||
Reel 55 | 59 |
United Mine Workers of America. Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902.
|
1902 |
Scope and Contents
Waiting to hear whether strike would be called off. Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
|
|||
Reel 55 | 60 |
United Mine Workers of America. John P. Gallagher
|
1901 |
Scope and Contents
Secretary, District 7, UMW. March 29, 1901.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 61 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mr. Healy
|
|
Scope and Contents
Board member, District 1, UMW.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 62 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mass Meeting.
|
1903 |
Scope and Contents
Scranton, Pennsylvania, October 29, 1903
|
|||
Reel 55 | 63 |
United Mine Workers of America. Miners' families
|
|
Reel 55 | 64 |
United Mine Workers of America. John Mitchell addressing mass meeting.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
South Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1905
|
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Reel 55 | 65 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mass meeting hearing John Mitchell.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
South Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 18, 1905
|
|||
Reel 55 | 66 |
United Mine Workers of America. Left to right: John Mitchell, Mr. Beamish, Mr. Dunn.
|
1906 |
Scope and Contents
New York City, New York, April 9, 1906
|
|||
Reel 55 | 67 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 68 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 69 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 70 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 71 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 72 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 73 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
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Reel 55 | 74 |
United Mine Workers of America. Mitchell Day Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
|||
Reel 55 | 75 |
United Mine Workers of America. Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
|
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Reel 55 | 76 |
United Mine Workers of America. Parade.
|
1905 |
Scope and Contents
Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
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United Mine Workers of America. Parade.
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1905 |
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Lykens, Pennsylvania, September 20, 1905.
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United Mine Workers of America. Gathering.
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1905 |
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East Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, August 21, 1905
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United Mine Workers of America. F.H. Sherman
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President, District 18, UMW
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Charles Weger
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1898 |
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Company L, 158 Indiana Volunteer Infantry, Spanish-American War, 1898
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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Public Square
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Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Scene outside city
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W. B. Wilson
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