Lewis, John L. (John Llewellyn), 1880-1969
Person
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
United Mine Workers of America, Health and Retirement Funds, Records
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2769
Scope and Contents
The United Mine Workers of America (UMWA) archives consists of the records of the first industry-wide pension and medical care plans for coal miners and their families in the United States. The archives comprise approximately 156 linear feet of records from the years 1946-1974, and include minutes, resolutions, correspondence, memos, reports, transcribed speeches, lawsuit documents, construction plans, contracts, statistical reports, newspaper clippings, photographs, microfilmed reading...
Dates:
1915-1989
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: Kentucky X
Additional filters:
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- Alabama 1
- Blankenship vs. Boyle. 1
- Coal miners 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Coal mining - Medical care. 1
- Coal mining - camps and company towns. 1
- Coal mining -- Strikes 1
- Dental care 1
- Dentists 1
- Diaries and journals. 1
- Drugs and druggists. 1
- Federal Coal Mine Health and Safety Act 1969. 1
- Health services. 1
- Hospitals and hospital records. 1
- Hospitals and sanitariums. 1
- Kansas 1
- Lungs -- Dust diseases 1
- Medicine. SEE ALSO Folk medicine. 1
- Montana 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Physicians - letters and papers. 1
- Silicosis 1
- Tennessee 1
- United Mine Workers of America Health and Retirement Funds - copayment system. 1
- Virginia 1
- Vocational rehabilitation 1 + ∧ less
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