General and Miscellaneous
Grafton Riot
Peonage
Child Labor
Coal Industry
Individuals

General and Miscellaneous

Grafton Riot

Peonage

Child Labor

Coal Industry

West Virginia's Mine Wars

Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike

• Mother Jones and the Paint Creek-Cabin Creek Strike
• "Committee Condemns W. Va. Mine Owners: Debs, Germer and Berger Report" (West Virginia History)
• "Eugene V. Debs in West Virginia, 1913: A Reappraisal" by Roger Fagge (West Virginia History)
• "Debs's Visit Challenged in Historical Interpretation" by David A. Corbin and Roger Fagge (West Virginia History)
• Bull Moose Special
• Raid on offices of The Socialist and Labor Star
• Governor Henry Hatfield Dictates End to Coal Strike (Time Trail)

Mine Wars, 1920-21

• Matewan Massacre
• Three Days Battle of the Tug (Time Trail)
• Sid Hatfield's Murder Trial (Time Trail)
• "The United States Army and the Return to Normalcy in Labor Dispute Interventions: The Case of the West Virginia Coal Mine Wars, 1920-1921" by Clayton D. Laurie (West Virginia History)
• Battle of Blair Mountain
• William Blizzard Treason Trial Transcript (Ms97-24)
• "Mere Military Color: The State Police and Martial Law" by Merle T. Cole (West Virginia Historical Society Quarterly)

Other Conflicts

• Transcripts of Interviews for Even the Heavens Weep
• Sources on Miscellaneous Coal Conflicts
• Use of State Militia to Put Down Hawks Nest Coal Strike (Time Trail)
• Telegram on Wheeling Labor Conference
• "United Labor of the United States Appeals to the Country to Assist the Miners in Their Struggle"
• "The Debs Meeting Was A Monster"
• "Kanawha's Miners Organize and Demand an Advance to the Columbus Scale"
• Sources on the Cliftonville Riot
• "Conflict at Coal River Collieries: The UMWA vs. the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers" by Thomas J. Robertson and Ronald L. Lewis (West Virginia History)
• "Three Big Mines In Local Region To Resume Operations" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
• "Pickets Quiet at Consol Mines" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
• "Lawyer Explains New Union Plan For Operating Coal Mines In Local Region" (Women Pickets at Owings Mine)
• Widen Strike, 1952-53
• Governor Arch Moore Negotiates the End of a National Coal Strike (Time Trail)
• Pittston Coal Strike Ends (Time Trail)

Black Lung

• The Black Lung Strike (Time Trail)
• "Mines Are Idled Over 'Black Lung'"
• "Coal Miners Sound Call of 'No Law, No Work'"
• Proposed Black Lung Legislation
• Report of the Occupational Pneumoconiosis Board

Women

• "Strategies for Survival: Women's Work in the Southern West Virginia Coal Camps" by Janet W. Greene (West Virginia History)
• "Life underground is improving for women miners with jobs"
• "UMW officers encourage women" (Women Miners)
• "Maternity/paternity leave to be key issue in talks" (Women Miners)

Individuals

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