Oral history interview with James V. Carlson, 1974.

Biographical Note

Manager for industrial relations.

Scope and Contents

Swedish family background; San Diego and southern California can plants, 1920s; University of California, Los Angeles; summer employment with Continental Can as bag sealer, can stacker; union growth, pay differentials, aims; World War II, stamp rationing, Air Corps, Southwest Pacific; personnel manager, Oakland plant, 1945; International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union: employment of minorities and women; union priorities: wages, fringe benefits, job security; Sacramento plant; steel workers, Machinists Union; Hans Eggerss; Continental's organizational structure; employee training programs, can making school; responsibilities of Industrial Relations and Regional Manager.

Subjects

• Carlson, James V.--Interviews.
• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Executives--Interviews.
• Industrial relations.
• International Association of Machinists.
• International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union.
• Interviews.
• Machinists--Labor unions.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Stevedores--Labor unions.