Oral history interview with Walter White, 1975 April 16, 18, 21, 23 and 1975 May 12, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21.

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Oral history interview with Walter White, 1975 April 16, 18, 21, 23 and 1975 May 12, 14, 15, 19, 20, 21.

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Interview with Walter White concerning his experiences as a federal labor mediator and conciliator. White speaks of his his thirty-year career with the U.S. Conciliation Service and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, as well as his early boyhood employment with International Harvester Company. He discusses the Depression and New Deal, the Kansas Employment Service, his employment with U.S. Potash Company and experiences with Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers Union, and his employment with the U.S. Conciliation Service in 1942. White also explains labor-management relations during World War II, his personal experiences in the Omaha and Des Moines offices, the Taft-Hartley Act, the formation of Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, and the post-World War II labor unrest. In addition, White talks about his transfer to Texas, his personal philosophy concerning labor-management relations, personal expereinces with and comments about James Hoffa, Sid Richardson, and John Connally, and Eugene Debs.

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University of North Texas Library, UNT

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