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Material (1931-1957) of a labor organizer including correspondence, reports, handbills, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, instruction posters, political and labor buttons. There are court reports involving labor cases for the period 1940-1956. Subjects include Subversive Activities Control Board, integration in labor movement, labor during WW II, labor in southern U. S., communism in labor movement, union constitutions and agreement between industry and unions. See inventory for listing of material in collection.

Includes co-op newsletters, circulars, promotional literature, business correspondence, discussions and decisions of the managing committee and daily operating notes from the workers of a Morgantown, West Virginia, grocery store. There are also editorials on liberation movements and trade unionism.

Twelve minute books, 1888-1950. Other materials include secretarial correspondence, rolls and accounts, newspaper clippings, correspondence, financial reports, convention reports, and various constitutions.

Papers of the Painters Local Union No. 91 in Wheeling, WV, including minute books, account books, and membership and dues records (1886-1924); typescript minutes (1941-1954); correspondence, (1886, 1943-1952); and receipts, contracts, and pamphlets (1886-1958).

Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia.
(1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky, circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union.
(2) Adam Getto, Autobiography, 1975, an autobiography of his experiences as a union section leader at Bethlehem Steel's Ellsworth Mine in Bentleyville, Pennsylvania.
(3) Miriam Schultz, Bread Upon the Waters, circa 1970, a novel about coal miners in western Pennsylvania.
(4) Miriam Schultz, "Larry Corcoran," circa 1970, a short story about a coal miner in western Pennsylvania.
(5) Tony Sabo, Stripped Naked in Public, circa 1971, an autobiographical account about his life in coal towns in northern West Virginia and his work in the Welfare Rights Organization.
Microfilm contains copies of Autobiography, Stripped Naked in Public, and "Larry Corcoran."

Records of the Progressive Mine Workers of America.

Financial records, newsletters, minutes, correspondence and inter-factory memos of Clarksburg Union Local No.2. There are also records of grievances, arbitration, and union attendance.