Oral history interview with Leighton McLendon, 1975.

Biographical Note

Electrician.

Scope and Contents

Training as electrician and welder; Gair plant construction work, Savannah; duties as pulp mill and paper mill electrician; attitude towards union-management negotiations; history of electricians union; safety concerns, equipment, troubleshooting; summer youth employment program, bull gang work; changes in race relations in the South; Gair merger with Continental Can; industrial relations department; loss of fraternity in plant.

Subjects

• Consolidation and merger of corporations.
• Continental Can Company.
• Electricians--Interviews.
• Factory management.
• Interviews.
• Labor unions.
• Manufacturing processes.
• McLendon, Leighton--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Race relations.