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
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
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 -- Strikes X
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 2
- Coal mining -- Strikes 2
- Alabama 1
- Cabin Creek (W. Va.) 1
- Coal industry. 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
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Kansas 1
- Kentucky 1
- Labor organization. SEE ALSO Coal mining - labor 1
- Labor unions 1
- Logan County. 1
- Mabscott (W. Va.) 1
- Montana 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Paint Creek (Fayette County, W. Va.) 1
- Tennessee 1
- Unions -- Coal 1
- Unions. 1
- Wheeling (W. Va.) 1 + ∧ less
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