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Don Williams oral history interview, 1993 October 22
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Creator
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Williams, Don, 1939-2004
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Date Created
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1993-10-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Foundries, Flextime, Foundry workers, Plastic pipe industry, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
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Description
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In this interview, Don Williams recounts his twenty-five year career at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and discusses his current position in the company's newly created Industrial Division. Hired in 1968, Mr. Williams discusses how he came to wor...
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Dorothy "Dot" Hager oral history interview, 1993 November 2
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Creator
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Hager, Dorothy, 1936-
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Date Created
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1993-11-02
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Subjects--Topical
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Accounting--Technological innovations, Corporate treasurers, Corporations--Accounting, Employees--Effect of technological innovations on, Foundries--Accounting, Industrial relations, Pipe mills, Work environment
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Description
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Dorothy "Dot" Hager recounts her thirty-nine years at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry as she advanced from the payroll department to her position as secretary-treasurer in the accounting department. In her role as secretary-treasurer, she explains her ...
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Earl Raborn oral history interview, 1993 October 21
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Creator
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Raborn, Earl, 1927-2015
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Date Created
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1993-10-21
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Subjects--Topical
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Foundries--Environmental aspects, Foundries--Management, Industrial relations, Personnel directors, Personnel management, Personnel departments--Employees, Pipe mills, Pollution control industry, Work environment
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Description
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In this interview, Earl Raborn recounts his forty-five year career in the personnel department of Charlotte Pipe and Foundry. He discusses his role as personnel director and the developments that occurred during his leadership in the personnel dep...
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Evelyn Grindstaff oral history interview, 1999 February 22
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Creator
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Grindstaff, Evelyn, 1922-
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Date Created
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1999-02-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Mills and mill-work, Work environment, Textile workers, Dyslexia, Functional literacy
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Description
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Evelyn Grindstaff recounts her life and forty-five years working in textile mills in Gastonia, North Carolina. Topics discussed include her experiences working at the Groves Mills beginning at the age of fifteen, her husband's World War II service...
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Hassey Gibson oral history interview, 1993 June 3
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Creator
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Gibson, Hassey R. (Hassey Richardson), 1910-1999
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Date Created
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1993-06-03
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Subjects--Topical
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Molding (Founding), Foundries, Ironwork, Piecework, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment, Strikes and lockouts
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Description
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Hassey Gibson was a Charlotte Pipe and Foundry ironworker for fifty-two years. He began to work as a piece worker in 1925, but moved on to do various jobs within the plant. At the beginning of the interview, Mr. Gibson recounts his early work and ...
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Jasper Barber oral history interview, 1993 September 22
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Creator
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Barber, Jasper Dennis, 1932-2002
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Date Created
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1993-09-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Foundries--Management, Foundry workers, Industrial relations, Plastic pipe industry, Piping--Design and construction, Pipe mills, Mechanization, Work environment
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Description
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Jasper Barber was a Charlotte Pipe and Foundry employee for twenty seven years at the time of the interview. Mr. Barber was hired in 1968 as a machinist for the newly created Plastics Division, and he discusses the various early practical and admi...
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Jim Price oral history interview, 1993 June 8
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Creator
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Price, James Wilson, 1921-2011
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Date Created
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1993-06-08
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Subjects--Topical
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Foundries, Industrial relations, Ironwork, Mechanization, Mechanical engineering, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
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Description
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In this interview, Jim Price recounts his fifty years of service at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry as well as his Air Force training during World War II. Mr. Price describes the working conditions at Charlotte Pipe as perilous in nature and discus...
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John Archibald oral history interview, 2004 April 1
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Creator
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Archibald, John, 1925-2008
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Date Created
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2004-04-01
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Subjects--Topical
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Working class families, Working class, Mills and mill-work, Industrial housing, Vocational education, Shipyards, Labor unions, War, Americans--Public opinion, Bombings, Airplanes, Military, Poverty, Racism, Racism--Economic aspects, Work environment, Veterans
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Description
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John Archibald recounts growing up in the Leakesville-Spray area of Rockingham Country, North Carolina, his time as a soldier during World War II, and his life and career after the war. As Mr. Archibald grew older, he became aware that his educati...
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Kneever “Joe” Morrow, Sr. oral history interview, 1993 June 15
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Creator
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Morrow, Kneever, Sr., 1922-1999
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Date Created
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1993-06-15
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Subjects--Topical
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Foundry workers, Foundry workers--Labor unions, Labor unions, Strikes and lockouts, Ironwork, Piecework, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Land use, Urban--Social aspects, Work environment
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Description
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Kneever Morrow worked at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry for approximately thirty-two years, and he recounts the various jobs he held with the company. Mr. Morrow explains how he received his nickname, "Joe," while working at Charlotte Pipe and Foundry...
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Martin Grossman oral history interview, 1979 May 24
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Creator
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Grossman, Martin L. (Martin Luther), 1903-2002
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Date Created
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1979-05-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Electrical engineering, Electric industry workers, Work environment, Power-plants, Electric utilities, Tobacco industry, Cost control, Cities and towns--Growth
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Description
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Martin Grossman recounts his long career as an engineer beginning in the early twentieth century and his experiences in Charlotte, North Carolina, after moving there in 1954. He describes his work in the energy sector with Celanese Corporation and...
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William T. Alexander oral history interview 3, 1992 Spring
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Creator
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Alexander, William Tasse, 1904-1992
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Date Created
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1992
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Subjects--Topical
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Rich people, Work environment, Insurance agents, Rural conditions, Business enterprises, Competition, Soldiers
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Description
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In this last of three interviews, Charlotte native William T. Alexander describes his early career in the 1920s-1930s working in several places across the United States as well as his time in the U.S. Army during World War II. Mr. Alexander talks ...
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Wilma Conder oral history interview, 1993 September 22
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Creator
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Conder, Wilma H., 1923-2014
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Date Created
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1993-09-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Industrial relations, Automation, Foundries--Automation, Pipe mills, Plastics industry and trade, Plastics--Molding, Plastics workers, Shipment of goods, Teams in the workplace, Women blue collar workers, Work environment
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Description
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In her interview, Wilma Conder recounts her twenty-five years at the Charlotte Pipe and Foundry plastics plant. Mrs. Conder discusses her job as an operator of a large molding machine, noting her pioneering efforts in this position as few women da...