United Mine Workers of America
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Paul Nyden, Collector, Five Unpublished Manuscripts Dealing with Coal Mining, Miners, and Unions
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2628
Scope and Contents
Five unpublished manuscripts relating to coal mining, miners, and unions, in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia. (1) Tom Myerscough, Bloody Hell in Kentucky, circa 1932, a fictionalized account of the National Miners Union strike in Harlan County, Kentucky, in 1931. Myerscough became an organizer and then president of the National Miners Union.
(2) Adam Getto, ...
Dates:
circa 1932, 1970-1975
Van Amberg Bittner (1885-1949), Labor Leader, Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1698
Overview
UMWA international representative and organizer, member of the Steel Workers Organizing Committee, director of the CIO Organizing Committee, and vice-chairman of the CIO Political Action Committee Correspondence, legal papers, diaries, clippings, and other papers relate to Bittner's early career in the western Pennsylvania coal fields; his presidency of District 5, UMWA, 1911-1916; and his organizational activities in southeastern Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, northern West Virginia,...
Dates:
1908-1961
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- Alabama 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Kentucky 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining. 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Kansas 1
- Montana 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Tennessee 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - National Miners Union. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1 + ∧ less
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