Murray, Philip, 1886-1952
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
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
West Virginia State Industrial Union Council, CIO, Archives
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1380
Scope and Contents
The West Virginia State Industrial Union Council was formed in 1937 as the state labor federation for local unions affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations. In 1958, the WVIUC merged with the State Federation of Labor to form the West Virginia Labor Federation, AFL-CIO. Included in these two accessions are the correspondence, legal papers, reports, and printed materials of the Industrial Union Council’s president's office, between 1940 and 1951. Subjects include...
Dates:
1940-1951
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- Alabama 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Elections 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
- Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
- Montana 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Tennessee 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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