William Goff Caples Speeches, 1950-1968
Collection Number: 5250
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
William Goff Caples Speeches, 1950-1968
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5250
Abstract:
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.
Creator:
Caples, William Goff
Quanitities:
1 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
William Goff Caples was born in Pittsburgh October 4, 1909. He graduated from Kenyon
College in 1930 and from Northwestern University Law School in 1933. He was admitted
to the Illinois bar in 1933 and practiced in Chicago from 1933 to 1938.
From 1938 to 1942 he was general attorney to the Continental Casualty Company. He
served overseas with the Army Engineer Corps during the war and was discharged to
the Reserves as Lt.Col. in 1946.
He was manager of industrial relations at Inland Steel Company from 1946-1950, president
and director of its subsidiary, Inland Steel Container Company from 1950-53, returning
to Inland Steel Company as vice president in 1953.
He has been president of the Chicago Board of Education and of the United Charities
of Chicago. Mr. Caples is very active in many industrial relations and humanitarian
groups. His present activities include memberships in: the Advisory Council of the
New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, the American Iron and Steel
Institute, American Management Association, Industrial Relations Research Association,
and Industrial Relations Association of Chicago.
His publications are: "The Traditional Role of Management," Current History, July
1965; "The Economy, Our Government and Collective Bargaining," Reporting, March 1965;
"A Management Viewpoint," Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,
January 1961. His interests have been: Collective Bargaining, Personnel Administration
and Industrial Sociology.
In September 1968 he became president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
Sources: Who's Who in America, 1968-69;' Membership Directory, 1966 of the Industrial
Relations Research Association and the Wall Street Journal.
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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INFORMATION FOR USERS
William Goff Caples Speeches #5250. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Caples, William Goff, 1909-
Inland Steel Company
Subjects:
Age and employment -- United States
Automation -- Social aspects -- United States
Collective bargaining -- United States
Discrimination in employment -- United States
Educational equalization -- United States
Employee fringe benefits -- United States
Employees -- Training of -- United States
Executives -- Training of -- United States
Industrial management -- United States
Job security -- United States
Labor laws and legislation--United States.
Middle managers -- United States
Minorities -- Employment -- United States
Personnel management -- United States
Psychology, Industrial -- United States
Public relations -- United States
Retirement -- United States
Social security--United States.
Technological innovations -- United States
Unemployment -- United States
Vocational guidance -- United States
Women -- Education -- United States
Women -- Employment -- United States
Executives.
Personnel directors.
Industrial relations. United States. Public opinion.
Labor-management cooperation. United States.
Steel industry. United States.
Trade-union merger. United States.
Workers' education. United States.
United States. Race relations.
United States. Social conditions.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
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1950-1951 |
| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
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1952 |
| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
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1953-1954 |
| Box 1 | Folder 4 |
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1955 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
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1956 |
| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
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1957-1958 |
| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
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1959 |
| Box 2 | Folder 1 |
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1960 |
| Box 2 | Folder 2 |
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1961 |
| Box 2 | Folder 3 |
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1962 |
| Box 2 | Folder 4 |
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1963 |
| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
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1964 |
| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
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1965 |
| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
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1966 |
| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
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1967-1968 |