Oral history interview with Wyatt Speight [electronic resource], 1975

Biographical Note

Factory employee.

Scope and Contents

Childhood on a Louisiana farm; construction on the Continental Can plant in Houston, Texas; building expansion, warehousing; production of can lines; operation and maintenance of can splitters; effect of World War II; shop steward, union official, grievance procedures, union and management cooperation.

Subjects

• Cannery workers--Interviews.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Grievance procedures.
• Interviews.
• Labor disputes.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.
• Oral histories.
• Speight, Wyatt--Interviews.