Oral history interview with Walter E. Klint, 1975.

Biographical Note

Director employee benefits program.

Scope and Contents

Building Continental Can's personnel department, Seattle; work force problems World War II; defense subcontract work, World War II; establishment of accident prevention program; training programs; improvements in employee benefits; organization of industrial relations department after World War II; handling management-union relations; from local to master contracts; Inland Steel affair, installing pension plans, 1950, supplemental unemployment benefit program, 1955; sabbatical leave; ingredients of employee loyalty, pride; Continental Can's public image; evolution of Continental Can's health program.

Subjects

• Continental Can Company.
• Employee rights.
• Employees--Training of.
• Interviews.
• Klint, Walter E.--Interviews.
• Nackman, Mark E., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Personnel directors--Interviews.
• Personnel management.