Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949
Person
Found in 11 Collections and/or Records:
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0258
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. marshal (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Clarence Edwin Smith (1885-1959) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1606
Overview
Correspondence, business and legal records, account books, news releases, clippings, and family papers and photographs of a U.S. Marshall (1916-1922); editor of the Fairmont TIMES (1925-1959) and Wheeling REGISTER (1933-1935); Democratic politician; member of the National Bituminous Coal Commission (1935-1939); and businessman. Subjects include: Smith's student days at Virginia Military Institute; West Virginia National Guard; Monongah Mine Relief Committee; Associated Press; Association...
Dates:
1787-1957
Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), Historian, Research Papers Regarding West Virginia History
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3946
Overview
Research papers of Festus P. Summers (1895-1971), a historian who served on the faculty of West Virginia University from 1932 to 1965 and as chairman of the history department from 1946 to 1962. Collection includes photocopied correspondence, articles, and typescripts, as well as manuscript notes. Many of the photocopies appear to have been made from Archives and Manuscript collections at the West Virginia and Regional History Center, including A&M 873, A&M 1661, A&M 1824, and...
Dates:
ca. 1900-1971
Miscellaneous Records Regarding History of the Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3836
Overview
This collection contains miscellaneous records regarding history of the coal industry. Types of records include correspondence. See "Scope and Content Note" for additional information regarding material within the collection.
Dates:
1934-1937
Richard M. Hadsell, Collector, Records Regarding History of Coal Industry
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2122
Overview
Correspondence, reports, petitions, agreements, newspaper clippings, and magazine articles relating to the soft coal industry and labor conditions, generally in southern West Virginia. Subjects covered include the eight-hour day; strikes; consolidation of coal operations; freight rates; government contracts for coal; Paint and Cabin creeks, 1912-1913; working conditions in the Polack Cigar Factory, Wheeling, 1914; investigation of the Gay Coal and Coke Company, Logan County, 1917;...
Dates:
1880-1935
Rush Dew Holt (1905-1955) Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0873
Overview
Papers of Rush Dew Holt, Sr. (1905-1955) relating to his personal and political activities. Types of material include publications, clippings, correspondence, photographs, and ephemera, among others. The collection is divided into six series: Personal and Political Papers (1840-2000 and undated), Artifacts (1939-1952 and undated), Legislative Records (1920-1955 and undated), Constituent Services (1923-1954 and undated), Press and Media Activity (1925-2003 and undated), and Administrative...
Dates:
1840-2003; Majority of material found within 1918-1955
Teamsters Local 175, Scrapbook and Diary
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2284
Overview
A scrapbook and personal diary of Volney Andrews, one-time president of Local 175, covering the years 1938-1949. There is material on disputes over the legitimacy of the AFL and the CIO especially as it was reflected in state regional labor councils and jurisdictional struggles in West Virginia between the United Mine Workers of America and the Progressive Mine Workers of America. Also mentioned are political concerns such as elections, congressional investigations of labor and foreign trade...
Dates:
1938-1949
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 Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1658
Overview
The West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO, which was formed in 1958, includes the records of those organizations which preceded it: the West Virginia Industrial Union Council (CIO) and the West Virginia State Federation of Labor, unofficially and more commonly known as the West Virginia Federation of Labor (AFL). There is from the AFL affiliate Congressional correspondence; officers' files (president and secretary-treasurer); delegate convention files; financial records; auditors' reports;...
Dates:
1897-1972
West Virginia Labor Federation AFL-CIO Papers
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 0160
Overview
Executive council minutes and proceedings, correspondence, and printed material of the state organization of the American Federation of Labor founded in 1903. Papers include congressional correspondence, 1950-1957; correspondence of President E. A. Carter, 1949-1957; a few papers of H. M. Rogers, 1905-1959, and Frank W. Snyder, 1906-1911; records of the Parkersburg Central Trades and Labor Council, 1924-1942; and a typescript copy of the minutes of the Wheeling Typographical Union.
Dates:
1905-1959
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Elections 7
- New Deal, 1933-1939 7
- Politics and government. 5
- Unions. 5
- Account books 4
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 4
- Union names. 4
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 4
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 3
- Diaries and journals. 3
- Fairmont. 3
- Taxation 3
- United States. Labor Management Relations Act, 1947 3
- Academies (Private schools) 2
- Coal mining - coal companies. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Editors - letters and papers. 2
- Education. SEE ALSO Schools. 2
- General stores 2
- Judges - letters and papers. 2
- Labor unions 2
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 2
- Marion County (W. Va.) 2
- Mills and mill-work 2
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 2
- Railroads 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Women 2
- Women -- Roles in society 2
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 2
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 2
- World War, 1914-1918 2
- World War, 1939-1945 2
- Alabama 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mines and mining 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Education 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- Grafton. 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor 1
- Labor organization - Interracial Council. 1
- Labor organization - Labor's Non-Partisan League. 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Public utilities 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Tennessee 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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