Box 120
Container
Contains 24 Results:
"A History of the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers", 1953
File — Box: 120, Folder: 11
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1953
Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers notes, circa 1983
File — Box: 120, Folder: 12
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
circa 1983
"Trade Unionism in North Carolina: The Strike Against Reynolds Tobacco, 1947" by Akosua Barthwell, 1977
File — Box: 120, Folder: 13
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1977
"The Workplace and the Union in Tobacco, Winston-Salem, N. C., 1943-1950" by Robert Korstad, 1980
File — Box: 120, Folder: 14
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
1980
The Worker's Voice, Vol. 1 No. 9 by the United Tobacco Workers Local 22, June 1945
File — Box: 120, Folder: 15
Identifier: II
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
During the 1940s, Mike H. Ross worked with the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers and then as an International Representative for the United Furniture Workers of America - Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) and part of the CIO's "Operation Dixie". Operation Dixie was a movement during the 1940s by the CIO to organize southern labor into unions. The South was not labor-friendly during this time, especially to organizations or people who wanted to do away with Jim...
Dates:
June 1945
"A Long March from Maoism to Microsoft" by Gary Rivlin, 2004
File — Box: 120, Folder: 16
Identifier: III
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Mike H. Ross, after being injured during World War II, came back to the United States, where he was stationed in several army bases to convalesce. These included Fort Dix, New Jersey and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Ross also spent some time in New Orleans, Louisiana after the war, and was in North Carolina during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time, Ross began doing research for a history on the populist movement in the south. Much of his research consisted of news clippings,...
Dates:
2004
"The Operation of the Wage and Hour Law in North Carolina and the South" by M. H. Ross, 1952
File — Box: 120, Folder: 17
Identifier: III
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Mike H. Ross, after being injured during World War II, came back to the United States, where he was stationed in several army bases to convalesce. These included Fort Dix, New Jersey and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia. Ross also spent some time in New Orleans, Louisiana after the war, and was in North Carolina during the late 1940s and early 1950s. During this time, Ross began doing research for a history on the populist movement in the south. Much of his research consisted of news clippings,...
Dates:
1952
[Union songs], 1939, 1947, undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 7
Identifier: IX
Scope and Content of the Papers
From the Collection:
The Ross papers (1916-1987) contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2011-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125.The campaign materials consist of items from...
Dates:
1939, 1947, undated
["Background for Stephen Crane visit"], undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 1
Identifier: V
Scope and Content of the Papers
From the Collection:
The Ross papers (1916-1987) contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2011-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125.The campaign materials consist of items from...
Dates:
undated
Labor Troubles in Pennsylvania, undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 2
Identifier: V
Scope and Content of the Papers
From the Collection:
The Ross papers (1916-1987) contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2011-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125.The campaign materials consist of items from...
Dates:
undated
Gowen inserts, undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 3
Identifier: V
Scope and Content of the Papers
From the Collection:
The Ross papers (1916-1987) contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2011-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125.The campaign materials consist of items from...
Dates:
undated
[Group Health Association of America photos], [L2002-09_015 to L2002-09_021], 1970s
File — Box: 120, Folder: 4
Identifier: VI
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
The general files consists of some files from the Fairmont Clinic and Rural Practice Program, which includes correspondence and news articles. Also in the series are teaching materials from Ross's courses at Fairmont College.
Dates:
1970s
"Life Style of the Coal Miner" by M. H. Ross, 1971
File — Box: 120, Folder: 21
Identifier: VI
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
The general files consists of some files from the Fairmont Clinic and Rural Practice Program, which includes correspondence and news articles. Also in the series are teaching materials from Ross's courses at Fairmont College.
Dates:
1971
"The Appalachian Coal Miner: His Way of Living, Working, and Relating to Others" by M. H. Ross, undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 22
Identifier: VI
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
The general files consists of some files from the Fairmont Clinic and Rural Practice Program, which includes correspondence and news articles. Also in the series are teaching materials from Ross's courses at Fairmont College.
Dates:
undated
Handwritten note cards describing West family oral histories, undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 8
Identifier: VIII
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Jane Ross Davis, Ross's daughter, conducted several interviews at the end of 1986 with her father. The interviews cover many aspects of his life with respect to the various series presented and give more insight and understanding into what is contained in the collection.Note by Jane Ross Davis: "When I found, in September of 1986, that my dad's cancer, cancer of the esophagus, had metastasized and that he was not expected to live much beyond Christmas, I realized that I didn't...
Dates:
undated
Anne West Ross: "Union Maid" by Jane Ross Davis, 2006
File — Box: 120, Folder: 23
Identifier: VIII
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Jane Ross Davis, Ross's daughter, conducted several interviews at the end of 1986 with her father. The interviews cover many aspects of his life with respect to the various series presented and give more insight and understanding into what is contained in the collection.Note by Jane Ross Davis: "When I found, in September of 1986, that my dad's cancer, cancer of the esophagus, had metastasized and that he was not expected to live much beyond Christmas, I realized that I didn't...
Dates:
2006
Personal correspondence to Anne West Ross, undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 24
Identifier: VIII
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
Jane Ross Davis, Ross's daughter, conducted several interviews at the end of 1986 with her father. The interviews cover many aspects of his life with respect to the various series presented and give more insight and understanding into what is contained in the collection.Note by Jane Ross Davis: "When I found, in September of 1986, that my dad's cancer, cancer of the esophagus, had metastasized and that he was not expected to live much beyond Christmas, I realized that I didn't...
Dates:
undated
["Songs for Southern Workers - 1937 Songbook of the Kentucky Workers Alliance" prepared by Don West], August 1973
File — Box: 120, Folder: 5
Identifier: IX
Scope and Content of the Papers
From the Collection:
The Ross papers (1916-1987) contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2011-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125.The campaign materials consist of items from...
Dates:
August 1973
[Labor songs - sheet music], undated
File — Box: 120, Folder: 6
Identifier: IX
Scope and Content of the Papers
From the Collection:
The Ross papers (1916-1987) contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2011-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125.The campaign materials consist of items from...
Dates:
undated
"The Appalachian South Folklife Center Annual Report to Friends", 1983
File — Box: 120, Folder: 18
Identifier: IV
Scope and Content of the Series
From the Series:
In June 1960 Mike H. Ross delivered a presentation to the National Conference on Medicine and the Federal Coal Mine, Health, and Safety Act in Washington, D.C. His presentation was "The Lifestyle of the Coal Miner." Ross began doing more research in this area due to his involvement with the United Mine Workers of America, the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union, the Fairmont Clinic, the Rural Practice ProgramThis series contains files relating to lifestyle...
Dates:
1983