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• Frank Keeney

  … 17 had the largest membership in its history. In 1919, he announced his intention to … due to lack of finances. Keeney continued his labor activities with the Progressive Miners of … Miners of America, Keeney left the labor movement. He owned and operated a …

• Widen

  … , and a ball diamond with company-sponsored teams. Isolated in its early history, Widen prospered during the 1920s when West Virginia labor unions had declined. In the early 1930s, the "United Mine …

• Herman Guy Kump

  … Kump ran for governor, defeating the labor-backed Republican T. C. Townsend in … the agenda of business than to labor and deriving more support from traditional … prerogatives, resented the growth of organized labor under favorable federal legislation, often …

• Bob Wise

  … to jump on stage at rallies and clog for voters. With the support of the West Virginia Education Association and other labor organizations, he upset Brotherton in the primary and went on to win the November election. Two years later, during a national …

• Coal Industry

  … most famous strike episodes in the history of the American coal industry … characterized by the accelerated introduction of labor-saving machinery. "Mechanization": … one machine operation, radically reducing the labor force required. By the 1970s, …

• Coal Mine Disasters

  … ;Monongah":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/2012 exploded, killing at least 361 miners, the worst in U.S. history. Of those killed, only 74 were classified as ‘‘Americans.’’ The resulting public outcry brought Congressional action, culminating …

• Coal Mine Health and Safety Legislation

  … , while denouncing its shortcomings. The Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act of 1969 for the first time in history provided health protection and strict safety measures that have nearly eliminated the grim series of mine disasters. By limiting coal …

• Coal Mine Mechanization

  … , individual pay. Unionism in turn raised labor costs and encouraged operators to embrace … -belting for coal transport further reduced labor requirements, expanding the exodus of former … produced the most coal in its history, but with fewer miners than ever …

• Logan County

  … org/articles/1353 brought further changes. Federal labor legislation passed during Roosevelt’s & … the most significant events in Logan County history was the "Hatfield-McCoy Feud … the dynamics of Logan County’s history, and the continuing decline of coal …

• Joe Manchin

  … Pritt was the liberal candidate, backed by labor. Pritt won. Manchin declined to support … seen as the business candidate with many labor organizations against him in 1996, … to claim that he could pull business, labor, and government together to bring good …

• Martinsburg Roundhouse

  … of 1877":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1965, one of the most widespread and violent labor uprisings in American history, began at the Martinsburg B&O shops. For days, the Martinsburg railroad complex …

• Henry Mason Mathews

  … . To supplement his income, Mathews taught history, literature, and modern languages at Allegheny … the most popular attorneys general in the history of the state. He served as … disputes and for harmony, but as regards labor relations his call for peace was …

• John Jacob Cornwell

  … incorporated socialism, Bolshevism, and organized labor into one vast conspiracy. Cornwell’ … .org/articles/573), militated against labor-management reconciliation in the troubled … crusades into the arena of labor-management conflict. Convinced that attempts …

• Matthew Mansfield Neely

  … divided. Neely led the liberal, pro-labor wing, while the conservative statehouse faction … major figure in the state’s political history and—along with United Mine Workers … Bittner—the architect of the Democratic-labor alliance that dominated West Virginia …

• The Mine Wars

  … , on the miners’ side, the legendary labor organizer "Mary Harris ‘‘Mother’’ Jones& … , which left 16 men dead. Two labor newspapers were suppressed and their editors … . In probably the largest armed labor uprising in American history, perhaps as many as …

• Democratic Party

  … ://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/462 conservative policies alienated labor unions. In a turning point in the party’s history, "M … three-way division, with one faction headed by labor, another controlled by rural conservatives, and a …

• Politics

  … most will agree that our political history has been especially partisan and sometimes … in 1940 with the help of organized labor fashioned a political machine that impacted … as an ideological victory for organized labor and liberalism, his political machine …

• Nick Joe Rahall

  … .org/articles/1561, comprising most of the counties of the Third District. As the representative of a district with a long history of coal mining, Rahall was a leader in Congress on mining issues, chairing the House Subcommittee on Mining and Natural …

• Arch Moore

  Arch Alfred Moore Jr. (April 16, 1923-January 7, 2015), a Republican from the Northern Panhandle, became the first West Virginia governor in 100 years to serve a second term, and he returned later for a third. He was the state’s 28th governor and also the …

• Ephraim Franklin Morgan

  … Morgan displayed personal courtesy to some labor leaders, notably the famous " … nationwide business campaign to portray organized labor as un-American, Morgan annually … which had been marked by escalating labor-management violence. When Harding resisted, …

• Denise Giardina

  … is best known as a novelist and also has a long history of community activism, including a run for governor of West … . As a political activist Giardina participated in and wrote about Appalachian labor-capital conflicts of her day, including the A. T. …

• William Ellsworth Glasscock

  … , but the conflict continued beyond Glasscock’s term. Speaking before the West Virginia capitol in August 1912, labor organizer "Mary Harris ‘‘Mother’’ Jones":http://www.wvencyclopedia.org/articles/1053 denounced Governor Glasscock for the …

• Goldenseal

  … of West Virginians through feature articles, oral histories, and old and new photographs. … under the new Division of Culture and History. In 1979, Ken Sullivan became editor … Mine Wars_, a collection of popular labor history articles was published in 1991 …

• African-American Heritage

  … percent of West Virginia’s total mining labor force from the 1890s through the early … .org/articles/1364 undercut the Black mining labor force after World War II. The … and Dissemination of West Virginia’s Black History, the conference continued into the next …

• Shinnston Tornado

  The deadliest tornado in West Virginia's history struck Shinnston at 8:30 p.m., June 23, 1944. Sixty … the hospitals by a traveling circus and grave digging by the prison camp laborers from Gypsy, north of Shinnston. Selfless efforts were also made by elected …