<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-WvMtURHC" url="https://archives.lib.wvu.edu/ark:/99999/195233">A&amp;M 2659</eadid><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>Dawson Coal Company Collection, 1917-1948 <num>A&amp;M 2659</num></titleproper><author>Staff of the West Virginia &amp; Regional History Center</author></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>West Virginia and Regional History Center</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://host.lib.wvu.edu/images/logos/wvrhc.jpg" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><address><addressline>1549 University Ave. </addressline><addressline> P.O. Box 6069 </addressline><addressline>Morgantown, WV 26506-6069</addressline><addressline>Business Number: 304-293-3536</addressline><addressline>wvrhcref@westvirginia.libanswers.com</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="https://wvrhc.lib.wvu.edu" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2025-08-30 08:16:55 -0400</date>.</creation><langusage><language encodinganalog="language" langcode="eng">English</language></langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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<p>[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Dawson Coal Company Collection, A&amp;M 2659, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.</p>  </prefercite>
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<p>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.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <geogname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81149493" source="lcsh">Clarksburg (W. Va.)</geogname>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - Wage scales.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">African-Americans. SEE ALSO Coal miners - African Americans.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - age affidavits.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85017011" source="lcsh">Broadsides.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - non-union miners.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal mining - engineering problems.</subject>
    <subject source="local_LC">Coal mining -- Strikes</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Unions - UMWA.</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Coal - coal operators.</subject>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Trio Coal Company  (Madisonville, Ky.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Ku Klux Klan   (Clarksburg, W. Va.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Irona Coal Company</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Dawson Daylight Coal Company   (Madisonville, Ky.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="ingest">Ruckman Coal Company  (Madisonville, Ky.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Rosemont Coal Company.</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Reinecke Coal Mining Company  (Madisonville, Ky.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Dawson Coal Company</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Cincinnati Pump Manufacturing Company</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2011027268" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">American Constitutional Association  (Charleston, West Virginia)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">State Bureau of Negro Welfare and Statistics</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Flat Creek Coal Company   (Madisonville, Ky.)</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Marshall Coal Company</corpname>
    <corpname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50062445" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">United Mine Workers of America</corpname>
    <corpname source="local_LC">Dawson Colleries   (Madisonville, Ky.)</corpname>
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