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United Mine Workers Of America

However the UMWA withdrew from the CIO in 1942. Near the end of World War 2, Lewis and the union was heavily fined for violating the injunction barring the union from staging a strike. The UMWA was later re-admitted only to be again disaffiliated in 1947. This was due to Lewis refusing to sign the non-Communist affidavit required by the Taft-Hartley Labor Act. Lewis later resigned his Presidency of the UMWA in 1959, and was replaced by Thomas Kennedy, the long time vice president of the UMWA. .
             African American coal miners have a proud and rich history in the UMWA. Of the elected delegates to the founding UMWA convention, at least five were African American miners. One of the best known was Richard L. Davis who mined coal in West Virginia and Ohio. Aside from being a delegate to the founding convention in 1890, Davis later served as a UMWA organizer in Alabama, Ohio and West Virginia. Davis was twice elected to the UMWA National Executive Board as well. Davis and other remarkable UMWA leaders achieved a standard eight hour work day in 1898. UMWA organizers fanned out across the nation in 1933 to organize all coal miners after the passage of the National Industrial Recovery Act. This law granted workers the right to form unions and collectively bargain with their employers. In less than two years nearly 4 million new workers were organized. .
             In 1946 the UMWA made remarkable achievements for miners' health care and retirement benefits. During 1946 a contract between the UMWA and the federal government was created. It was called the UMWA Welfare and Retirement Fund. This UMWA Fund would permanently change health care delivery in the coal fields of the nation. This UMWA Fund built eight hospitals in the Appalachia, established many new clinics and helped to recruit new, young doctors to practice in rural coal field areas. In 1977, the Presidential Commission found that the UMWA Fund had helped miners to succeed in obtaining for themselves a quality of health care comparable to that of the many sectors of the industrial population.


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