Oral history interview with Bernard Bloser, 1975.

Biographical Note

Regional manager.

Scope and Contents

Syracuse machine shop operations; introduction of lock and lap seam, production and problems; development of high speed equipment; running prototype line of beer cans, production problems; West Coast operations, management; lack of staff support for organization in 1940s; reorganization under Heller Associates, morale problems; management development policy; production planning responsibilities in division; executives and company organization; increase in standardization; development of satellite system of operations; staff-executive vice president liaison duties; labor-management problems in the South, arbitration.

Subjects

• Bloser, Bernard--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Manufacturing processes.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)