United Mine Workers of America District 12 (Ill.) Records on Microfilm
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Scope and Contents
Collection consists of transcripts of joint conventions and conferences of coal mine operators and officials of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (1899-1919); joint board meetings between operators and officials of District 12 of the UMW for the purpose of adjusting grievances (1899-1928); and various contracts signed between locals in the Central Competitive Fields and the mine operators (1899- 1928).
This collection is divided into two series.
Series 1: Joint Conventions and Conference Proceedings (reels 1-3)
Series 2: Joint Grievance Board Transcripts (reels 4-7)
Dates
- 1899-1928
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Conditions Governing Access
Access to the collections in the Kheel Center is restricted. Please contact a reference archivist for access to these materials.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and Procedures for Document Use.
Biographical / Historical
District 12 encompasses the coal fields of Illinois and, throughout the period covered by these records, was one of the largest and most powerful districts in the United Mine Workers (UMW). District 12 was noted for its violent history of labor-management confrontation and, in the 1920's and 1930's, as a hotbed of sentiment against UMW central leadership, notably that of John L. Lewis.
District 12, in an attempt to maintain its contracts, unilaterally, and against the will of the Lewis leadership, accepted a reduction in the day rates of its members, thus leveling the final blow to the uniform scale of the Central Competitive Fields (CCF). In the late 1920's, moreover, District 12 was the center of a movement to unseat Lewis. Led by District 12 President Frank Farrington, John H. Walker, and Alexander Howatt, the movement culminated in 1930 with District 12 declaring itself autonomous from the UMW. After two years of complicated legal battles, District 12 was forced back into the UMW and Farrington and Walker were unseated by pro-Lewis candidates. In the process, a dual miners' union was formed in Illinois, the Progressive Mine Workers of America, which struggled, with questionable success, to wrest the allegiances of Illinois coal miners from the Lewis-dominated UMW.
Extent
1 collection (2 collections)
Abstract
Collection consists of transcripts of joint conventions and conferences of coal mine operators and officials of the United Mine Workers of America (UMW) from Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (1899-1919); joint board meetings between operators and officials of District 12 of the UMW for the purpose of adjusting grievances (1899-1928); and various contracts signed between locals in the Central Competitive Fields and the mine operators (1899-1928).
Quantity:
7 microfilm reels
Forms of Material:
Articles, reprints, pamphlets, correspondence, photographs, microfilm.
General
- Contact Information:
- Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives Martin P. Catherwood Library 227 Ives Hall Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3183> kheel_center@cornell.edu http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/library/kheel-center
- Compiled by:
- Kheel Staff, April 02, 2015
- EAD encoding:
- Kheel Staff, April 02, 2015
- Arbitration, Industrial -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Coal miners -- Dismissal of -- Illinois
- Coal mining industry -- Illinois -- Management
- Coal mining industry -- Illinois -- Safety measures
- Coal mining industry -- Illinois -- Technological innovations
- Coal mining industry -- Labor productivity -- Illinois
- Coal mining industry -- United States -- Equipment and supplies
- Coal-miners -- Housing -- United States
- Coal-miners -- Labor unions -- United States -- Jurisdictional disputes
- Collective bargaining -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Collective labor agreements -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Employee fringe benefits -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Employee fringe benefits -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Employee fringe benefits -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Employee rights -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Employee rules -- Illinois
- Employees, Dismissal of -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Grievance procedures -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Hours of labor -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Hours of labor -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Labor discipline -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Labor unions -- United States -- Elections of officials
- Labor unions -- United States -- Minority membership
- Misconduct -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Misconduct -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Strikes and lockouts -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Union dues -- United States
- United Mine Workers of America.
- Wages -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Wages -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Wages -- Coal mining industry -- Indiana
- Wages -- Coal mining industry -- Ohio
- Working conditions -- Arbitration, Industrial -- Illinois
- Working conditions -- Coal mining industry -- Illinois
- Title
- United Mine Workers of America District 12 (Ill.) Records on Microfilm
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Kheel Staff
- Date
- April 02, 2015
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 02/23/2024: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives Repository
227 Ives Hall
Ithaca NY 14853