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Title: Don Williams oral history interview, 1993 October 22
Creator: Williams, Don, 1939-2004
Date Created: 1993-10-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Flextime, Foundry workers, Plastic pipe industry, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: 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...

Title: Earl Raborn oral history interview, 1993 October 21
Creator: Raborn, Earl, 1927-2015
Date Created: 1993-10-21
Subjects--Topical: Foundries--Environmental aspects, Foundries--Management, Industrial relations, Personnel directors, Personnel management, Personnel departments--Employees, Pipe mills, Pollution control industry, Work environment
Description: 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...

Title: Hassey Gibson oral history interview, 1993 June 3
Creator: Gibson, Hassey R. (Hassey Richardson), 1910-1999
Date Created: 1993-06-03
Subjects--Topical: Molding (Founding), Foundries, Ironwork, Piecework, Mechanization, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment, Strikes and lockouts
Description: 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 ...

Title: Jasper Barber oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Barber, Jasper Dennis, 1932-2002
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: Foundries--Management, Foundry workers, Industrial relations, Plastic pipe industry, Piping--Design and construction, Pipe mills, Mechanization, Work environment
Description: 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...

Title: Jim Price oral history interview, 1993 June 8
Creator: Price, James Wilson, 1921-2011
Date Created: 1993-06-08
Subjects--Topical: Foundries, Industrial relations, Ironwork, Mechanization, Mechanical engineering, Pipe mills, Piping--Design and construction, Work environment
Description: 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...

Title: Will Hollisby oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Hollisby, Will, approximately 1903-
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: African Americans--Segregation, City and town life, Transportation
Description: Will Hollisby recounts his fifty-seven years living in Charlotte, North Carolina. Topics include working as a landscaper for Charlotte Pipe and Foundry and for private homeowners in Myers Park; using trains, trolleys, and buses within Charlotte an...

Title: Wilma Conder oral history interview, 1993 September 22
Creator: Conder, Wilma H., 1923-2014
Date Created: 1993-09-22
Subjects--Topical: 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
Description: 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...