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Oral history interview with Claude Adams, 1975.

Creator: Adams, Claude
Project: Continental Group project.
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 110 pages. Sound recording 1 reel
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Plant manager.

Scope and Contents

Job opportunities in the South; growth of paper industry in the South; pollution control work; Army experience, racial integration, World War II; work as chemist, Robert Gair paper mill; Gair relations with Fort Wayne; plant modernization and output; duties as assistant manager, Port Wentworth plant; merger with Gair in 1961; plant unionization, machinists' militancy; influence of United States economy on paper industry; changes in employee attitudes over the years.

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