Columbia Conserve Company. Employee Council minutes, 1932-1933.

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Columbia Conserve Company. Employee Council minutes, 1932-1933.

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Records consist chiefly of the minutes (1932-1933) of the Employee Council of the Columbia Conserve Co. of Indianapolis, Ind.

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The Columbia Conserve Company is primarily of interest as a pioneer in experiments in industrial democracy. The Columbia Conserve Company, canners of soups and catsups, was owned and managed since 1902 by members of the Hapgood family. In 1917, William Hapgood (president) introduced a plan of industrial democracy, whereby the firm operated under a system of "substitution of salaries for wages; profit sharing; and a provision for increasing and ultimately complete control...