Bittner, Van A. (Van Amberg), 1885-1949
Person
Found in 2 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
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:
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- Academies (Private schools) 1
- Account books 1
- Bluefield (W. Va.) 1
- Charleston. 1
- Coal mining - coal companies. 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
- Marion County (W. Va.) 1
- Mills and mill-work 1
- Morgantown (W. Va.) 1
- Mountain Lake Park (Md.) 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 (W. Va.) 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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