William Goff Caples transcripts of speeches, 1950-1968.

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William Goff Caples transcripts of speeches, 1950-1968.

Consists chiefly of copies of speeches made by Caples (few originals, few reprints) before workingmen's associations, management conferences, civic and social groups, and educational institutes in his capacity as an Inland Steel Company executive. The speeches deal with employee benefits plans, employment security, collective bargaining, industrial management, economic education, women workers, training, staffing and minority workers, frustration, pensions, labor and materials security, social problems, race relations, social change, middle management, social security, automation, collectivism, union mergers, recruitment, management development, management policy, education and opportunity, industrial relations and public opinion, female education, labor education, the iron and steel industry, labor-management cooperation, union policy, labor legislation, technological changes, executive ability, prejudice, equal employment opportunity, job choice, management responsibility, education policy, unemployment, industrial economics, personnel management, discrimination in employment, older workers, retirement, on-the-job training, and human, industrial, and public relations.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7887212

Cornell University Library

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Inland Steel Company

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Steel Company founded in 1893 in Chicago, Illinois; Inland Steel operated a fleet of bulk freighters for ore transport on the Great Lakes. From the description of Records 1978-1981. (Bowling Green State University). WorldCat record id: 588915836 Wheelwright, located in eastern Kentucky's Floyd County, is a town created by the coal industry. Initially developed as a coal camp by Elk Horn Coal Corporation, Wheelwright began to take shape in 1911. It was incorporat...

Caples, William Goff, 1909-

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William Goff Caples, an attorney, worked as manager of industrial relations at Inland Steel Company (1946-1950), as president and director of Inland Steel Container Company (subsidiary of Inland Steel Company) (1950-1953), returning to Inland Steel Company as vice president in 1953. Caples also served as president of the Chicago Board of Education, and of the United Charities of Chicago. His professional interests have been in collective bargaining, personnel administrat...