The UMW has the same goals that every known labor union has-- namely to have better working conditions and better pay with better benefits. They also try to keep and make as many jobs as possible for union members and to make sure that no one works at a mining job who is not a union member.
United Mine Workers of America (UMW).
Mary Harris Jones.
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United Mine Workers was created on 1890-01-22.
In 1996 most iron ore mine workers were union members of the United Steelworkers of America.
Mary Harris Jones
The 1920 Alabama coal strike, or the Alabama Miners' Strike, was a statewide strike of the United Mine Workers of America against coal mine operators.
to establish collective bargaining in american industrial life in the twentieth century
William John Walsh has written: 'The United mine workers of America as an economic and social force in the anthracite territory' -- subject(s): Anthracite coal, Coal miners, Coal mines and mining, Labor unions, United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell - United Mine Workers - was born on 1870-02-04.
Theodore Roosevelt supported labor in the united coal mine workers.
John Mitchell - United Mine Workers - died on 1919-09-09.