Oral history interview with Arthur E. Graf and L. Virgil Jones [electronic resource], 1974

Biographical Note

Supervisor; Arthur Graf b. 1905.

Scope and Contents

Shellmar, pressman in Milwaukee, 1924; move to Chicago and Mt. Vernon, NY; developments in printing wrappers, especially candy, presses, inks, glassene, pliofilm, polyethelene; switch from letter press to gravure; Mt. Vernon, Continental Can takeover, labor-management relations, hours and wages; impressions of B.W. Martin.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Continental Can Company.
• Graf, Arthur E.--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Jones, L. Virgil, interviewee.
• Jones, L. Virgil--Interviews.
• Labor unions.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Printing.
• Supervisors, Industrial--Interviews.