Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Filtered By
- Subject: Coal mining - Labor organization. X
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- Subject
- Alabama 1
- Coal industry. 1
- Coal mining - Strikes - West Virginia mines. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Education 1
- Elections 1
- Guffey Coal Act. 1
- Isolationism -- United States -- History -- 20th Century 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor unions 1
- Lewis County. 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- New Deal, 1933-1939 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Politicians -- United States 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Public utilities 1
- Social Security -- United States 1
- Taxation 1
- Tennessee 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- United States - Social Security. 1
- United States -- Politics and government 1
- West Virginia -- Politics and government 1
- Weston republican (Weston, W. Va. : 1879) The Weston republican 1
- Wheeler-Rayburn Holding Company Act 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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