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Lewis versus Howat: An Analysis of Labor Rhetoric, Education, and Class Privilege in Early Twentieth Century Mining Politics Main Menu United Mine Workers of America Unions A map of UMWA Unions and their District locations. History of the UMWA Who was Hearl Maxwell? A brief biography of the life of Hearl Maxwell, the southeast Kansas miner who collected the information used in this project. Who was Alexander Howat? A brief biography detailing the life of Alexander Howat. Who was John L. Lewis? A brief biography detailing the life of John L. Lewis. Lewis versus Howat An overview of the source of conflict between Lewis and Howat. Lewis versus Howat: A Timeline A timeline detailing all documents from the Hearl Maxwell Collection that related to the dispute between John L. Lewis and Alexander Howat. Lewis versus Howat: Political Action Howat answers President John L. Lewis, circa 1925 The main themes in Howat’s reply to Lewis. Formality in Writing Labor Rhetoric and Class Hierarchy Howat and Lewis at a Convention, circa 1922 Education's Role in Rhetoric, Class, and Privilege Conclusion Works Cited and Consulted

The Project: Maxwell, Lewis, and Howat

9410 The Project: Maxwell, Lewis, and Howat

The Hearl Maxwell Collection was received by the Leonard H. Axe Library of Pittsburg State University on August 17th, 2000 from local resident Linda Knoll. The Collection was donated to the Library by the Maxwell family on November 30, 2000. The Hearl Maxwell Collection contains correspondence, broadsides, union records and circulars, convention proceedings, photographs, publications, and miscellaneous materials that primarily document his activities as an officer in the local unions within District 14 of the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA). Materials within the collection also documents the career of District 14 president, Alexander Howat, and the functioning of the UMWA locals in southeast Kansas during the 1920s. 

As students in Dr. Jamie McDaniel's Digital Humanities course, the class worked with the employees of Leonard H. Axe Library's Special Collections department to digitize this collection over the duration of a few weeks in the Spring semester of the 2015-2016 academic year. With the newly digitized documents, we were then tasked with finding a story or theme from the materials that we could input into a Scalar project in order to tell our story. 

Using the personal papers and materials from the Hearl Maxwell Collection, this project set out to retrace the heated conflict that occurred between District 14 representative, Alexander Howat, and the President of the United Mine Workers Association, John L. Lewis. By analyzing various correspondence, union circulars, and minutes, in conjunction with relevant historical context, our aim was to showcase how this conflict, as it was represented in the documents, depicts the role of education and class privilege in determining political action.

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  1. Lewis versus Howat: An Analysis of Labor, Education, and Class Privilege in early Twentieth Century Mining Politics Morgan Ebbs

Contents of this path:

  1. United Mine Workers of America Unions
  2. History of the UMWA
  3. Who was Hearl Maxwell?
  4. Who was Alexander Howat?
  5. Who was John L. Lewis?
  6. Lewis versus Howat
  7. Lewis versus Howat: A Timeline
  8. Lewis versus Howat: Political Action
  9. Howat answers President John L. Lewis, circa 1925
  10. Formality in Writing
  11. Labor Rhetoric and Class Hierarchy
  12. Howat and Lewis at a Convention, circa 1922
  13. Education's Role in Rhetoric, Class, and Privilege
  14. Conclusion
  15. Works Cited and Consulted

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