Columbia Center for Oral History Portal > Oral history interview with Iver J. Olsen [electronic resource], 1974Biographical NotePlant manager; interviewees are married.
Scope and ContentsFamily, immigration to the United States, early life in Tacoma, Washington; machinist apprenticeship; early jobs; beginning career with Continental Can as a die maker; master mechanic in Oakland and Seattle; women employees during World War II; seventeen years as plant manager; union-management relations.
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