The United Mine Workers of America as an Exemplar of Union Activity

Introduction

The purpose of this Scalar book is to examine the duties of unions by looking at a collection provided by the Axe Library's Special Collections Department located at Pittsburg State University. This collection is the Hearl Maxwell collection, a group of documents that display letters, bulletins, postcards, circulars, and various other items of interest created by members of the United Mine Workers of America. A description of union duties will be given along with examples from the collection that will be used to illustrate these duties by providing real world situations that the union took part in and documents that were created to organize or report results of those situations. One particular aspect of each situation that will be analyzed is the way that union leaders use rhetoric in their communication with members and external parties. 

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