Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949
Person
Found in 2 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
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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- 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
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor unions 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Tennessee 1
- Unions -- Coal 1 + ∧ less
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