Papers of the Virginia Coal Operators Association [manuscript] 1919-1952.

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Papers of the Virginia Coal Operators Association [manuscript] 1919-1952.

Collection contains the charter & by-laws of the association, correspondence, newsclippings, telegrams, election ballots & proxies, memoranda, an auditor's report from the United Mine Workers of America, and a promotional pamphlet for the Jewel Ridge Coal Corporation. Much of the material concerns amendments of the by-laws in 1927 & 1952. Correspondents include John William Chalkley, George H. Esser, pres., V.C.O.A., G.D. Kilgore, secty. V.C.O.A., William F. Minton, pres. district 28 U.M.W.A., John Moore, pres. Ohio Mine workers, C.B. Neal, secty. V.C.O.A., Claude Augustus Swanson, & C.W. Wilson.

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University of Virginia. Library

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Jewel Ridge Coal Corporation.

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Kilgore, G. D.,

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Swanson, Claude Augustus, 1862-1939

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Governor, U.S. Senator from Virginia, and Secretary of the Navy. From the description of Papers, 1867-1935. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20188558 U.S. Representative 1893-1906; Virginia governor 1906-1910; U.S. Senator 1910-1933. From the description of Papers of Claude Augustus Swanson [manuscript], 1917-1922. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647844476 U.S. Senator from Virginia, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. Fro...

Virginia Coal Operators Association.

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Esser, George H., Jr., 1921-2006

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George Hyndman Esser Jr. was born in Norton, Va., in 1922. Esser was a life-long civil rights advocate and crusader against poverty who led the North Carolina Fund under Governor Terry Sanford in the 1960s. He was also a professor of public law and government at the Institute of Government, University of North Carolina, 1948-1963; executive director of the North Carolina Fund, 1963-1969; program officer for the South for the Ford Foundation; 1969-1972; and executive director of the Southern Regi...

Chalkley, John William, 1876-

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Minton, William F.,

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Moore, John,

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Wilson, C. W. J. (Christopher William John), 1924-

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United mine workers of America

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Neal, C. B.,

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