The Progressive Miners of America (PMA, renamed the Progressive Mine Workers of America, PMWA, in 1938) was a coal miners' union organized in 1932 in...
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Union Miners Cemetery is a cemetery in Mount Olive, Illinois. The cemetery is the burial site of labor leader Mary Harris "Mother" Jones. Miners Day has...
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Union violence in the United States (category Labor history of the United States)
were killed, one of them a non-union miner, the other a union man accidentally shot by other miners. Their mission accomplished, the miners once again boarded...
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George W. Dowell (category American lawyers)
were among the first directors of the bank. He later served as the general counsel for the Progressive Miners of America. Dowell ran unsuccessfully for...
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merger of several miners' unions representing copper miners from Butte, Montana, silver and lead miners from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, gold miners from Colorado...
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Arthur Benedict Gramlich (category United Mine Workers of America people)
a member of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers of America, he was one of the early converts to the newly formed Progressive Miners of America union. He...
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Macoupin County, Illinois (redirect from History of Macoupin County, Illinois)
prominent during the internecine war between the UMW and the Progressive Miners of America of the 1930s. Agriculture remained the county's prime economic...
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Lovestoneites (redirect from Independent Labor League of America)
called for the creation of a new union in August 1933 and other disaffected members gravitated towards the Progressive Miners of America. The Lovestoneites...
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Thyra J. Edwards (category African-American women journalists)
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, a black union based in Chicago, and with the Progressive Miners of America in southern Illinois. In 1933 she was part of forming...
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Agnes Burns Wieck (category American activists)
Wieck was founder and first president of the short-lived Illinois Women's Auxiliary of the Progressive Miners of America (PMA) in 1932. She led a January 1933...
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