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.
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