Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949
Person
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
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
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
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
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Elections 2
- Fairmont. 2
- New Deal, 1933-1939 2
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 2
- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - Working conditions. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 1
- Coal mining - coal operators associations. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Editors - letters and papers. 1
- Fairmont Index. 1
- Fairmont Times. 1
- General stores 1
- Grafton. 1
- Judges - letters and papers. 1
- Labor 1
- Labor unions - Teamsters. 1
- Lawyers - letters and papers. 1
- Logan (W. Va.) 1
- Logan County. 1
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Politics and government. 1
- Railroads 1
- Strikes and lockouts 1
- Union names. 1
- Unions - Progressive Mine Workers of America. 1
- Unions - Teamsters. 1
- Unions - UMWA. 1
- Unions. SEE ALSO Labor organization. 1
- Wheeling Register (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1
- Women's history -- 1850-1899 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- World War, 1914-1918 1 + ∧ less
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