Word: bittner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Then Van A. Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers, had laid upon Mr. Schwab's and Mr. Rockefeller's interests in West Virginia, the same charge that had previously been laid upon Mr. Mellon's company and other Pittsburgh operators, namely, violation of a wage agreement, in spirit if not in letter. The method used, he said, had been to shut down the mines for a time, then reopen them and offer work to non-union men at wages below the agreed union scale. These moves by the Schwab and Rockefeller companies, Bittner declared, were what had driven...
...West Virginia coal fields are unionized only in small part. But Van A. Bittner, agent of the United Mine Workers, has been busy there trying to bring that region under the Union's dominance. He issued a strike order that took effect last week, and the mine leaders led by Mr. Lewis went down to celebrate the opening of the strike in an effort to make it successful...
Said Van A. Bittner: "Injunctions are like leaves of grass in the lives of labor leaders. . . . Injunctions won't break strikes...
...Bittner, representative of the United Mine Workers in West Virginia, wired Secretary of Commerce Hoover that soft-coal producing companies were attempting to break their wage contract (negotiated at Jacksonville, Fla., a year ago last spring). He said that attempts were being made to lower wages 50%, that armed gunmen were being employed to intimidate the miners, that hundreds of miners were being evicted from their homes by their employer landlords, that, if the Federal Government did not take a stand against the breaking of the wage contract by soft-coal miners, the Union miners of hard and soft coal...
Score, Harvard 37, Worcester Tech 19. Goals from the floor, Gordon 7, Smith 5, Rauh 3, Rudofsky, Sharpe 3, Bittner 2, Delphos 2, Goals from fouls, Gordon 2, Smith, Rauh, Rudofsky, Bittner 3, Sharpe 2, Refereee, Muller...