Oral history interview with Robert C. Meyers, 1974.

Biographical Note

Plant superintendent.

Scope and Contents

Depression, 1939 Van Wert Container Company, winder feeder and mandle operator; World War II Navy; Continental Can takeover: foreman, 1956, general foreman, 1964, plant superintendent, 1973; Van Wert area labor force and industries, women and minority groups, supervising workers, morale, hierarchy of responsibility, time off.

Subjects

• Containers.
• Continental Can Company.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions--Officials and employees.
• Meyers, Robert C.--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Supervisors, Industrial--Interviews.