OH 0278 BOH 0005 | Oral History

OH 0278 BOH 0005

Retired federal labor mediator and conciliator. Experiences and reminiscences from his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; early boyhood; employment with the International Harvester Company; comments about the Depression and New Deal; Kansas employment Service; employment with U.S. Potash company and experiences with the Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union; employment with U.S. Conciliation Service, 1942; labor-management relations during World War II; personal experiences in the Omaha and Des Moines offices; Taft-Hartley Act and formation of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service; post-World War II labor unrest; transfer to Texas; personal philosophy concerning labor-management relations; personal experiences with and comments about James Hoffa, Sid Richardson, John Connally, and Eugene Debs. Also as OHB 0005.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 708 pp. (2 vols.)
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Ronald E. Marcello, J.D Dunn
Date of Interview April 16, 1975, April 18, 1975, April 21, 1975, April 23, 1975, May 12, 1975, May 14, 1975, May 15, 1975, May 19, 1975, May 20, 1975, May 21, 1975

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