Guide to the William Goff Caples Transcripts Of Speeches,
1950-1968

Collection Number: 5250

Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library

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Compiled by:
Judy Comor and Constance Bulkley
Date completed:
1969
EAD encoding:
Casey S. Westerman, December 18, 2002

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DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
William Goff Caples transcripts of speeches, 1950-1968.
Collection Number:
5250
Creator:
Caples, William Goff, 1909-
Quantity:
.5 linear ft.
Forms of Material:
Speeches.
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library
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.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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 was president of the Chicago Board of Education and of the United Charities of Chicago. Mr. Caples was very active in many industrial relations and humanitarian groups. His activities included 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.
In September 1968 he became president of Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio.
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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.
SUBJECTS

Names:
Caples, William Goff.
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.

Form and Genre Terms:
Speeches.
Transcripts.

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Cite As:
William Goff Caples transcripts of speeches, 1950-1968. #5250. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.
CONTAINER LIST

Description
Container
I. Speeches, 1950-1968.
1950-51 "Trendy in Employee Benefit Plans" before the California Personnel Management Association and the Personnel Section of the Western Management Association.
1950-51 "Employee Security Means a Lot - But It Isn't Everything."
1950-51 "How to Survey and Plan for Your Future Manpower Needs."
1950-51 "Mobilizing the Power of Management" before the 28th Annual Convention of the National Association of Foremen.
1950-51 "Where is Collective Bargaining Going" before the Industrial Relations session, 56th Congress of Industry, National Association of Manufacturers.
1952 "Economic Education of Workers" before the 5th Annual Management Engineering Conference.
1952 "Women and Corporate Affairs" before the Chicago Women's Club.
1952 "industry Looks at Training" before the American Society of Training Directors.
1952 "The Inside Story of Labor's Power," stenographic transcript of WGN-TV Broadcast.
1952 Speech before members of the National Paper Board Association
1952 "Psychological Impact of Old Age and Security Interest on Labor-Management Relations."
1952 "Teamwork in Industry" before the 2nd Annual Institute of Teamwork in Industry and the National Conference of Christians and Jews.
1952 "Frustrations" given before the Annual Joint Meeting of the Eastern States Blast Furnace and Coke Oven Association and the Blast Furnace and Coke Association of the Chicago District.
1953-54 "Editors Frustrate Management Too" before the Industrial Editors' Association.
1953-54 "The Meaning of Pensions" before Conference on National Organizations.
1953-54 "Labor and Security" before 24th annual meeting, Wisconsin Chamber of Commerce.
1953-54 "Forum" of the Air."
1955 Human Dignity in the Last 100 Years" before Young Women's Christian Association
1955 "The Potential Power of Middle Management — On and Off the Job" before final luncheon session of the Spring Management Conference of American Management Association.
1955 Transcript of panel discussion on Answers for Americans, WPIX-TV, New York.
1955 "Effects of Automation on Employment and Manpower Needs."
1955 "Collectivism - U.S.A."
1955 "What Will Be the Effect of the Labor Merger."
1956 Statement of William G. Caples before the Senate Finance Committee.
1956 "Human Relations - Its Challenge in Manpower Development for Business and Industry."
1956 "Problems Affecting Engineers and Technicians: Recruiting in Basic Industry."
1956 "Survival Through Executive Development" before 10th annual Conference of Bankers.
1957-58 "The Corporation and the College" before Commission on Colleges and Industry.
1957-58 "Business and Industry Look at Modern Education before Annual Education Conference Week Session, Northwestern University.
1957-58 "Public School Education."
1957-58 "Credo of a Corporation."
1957-58 "Citizenship In a Space Age" before Board of Education 17th Annual Vocational Conference for Chicago High Schools.
1957-58 "The Gifts of the Teacher" before Dinner Meeting, Council for the Mentally Handicapped.
1957-58 "Learning Spells Opportunity."
1957-58 "The Publics and Industrial Relations."
1957-58 "The Need for an Intelligent Response to Requests for Corporate Giving."
1959 "Communication and Collective Bargaining" before 10th Annual Editors' Workshop, American Iron and Steel Institute.
1959 "Changing Aspects of Collective Bargaining" before Tuesday Morning Session of American Institute of Steel Construction, Inc. 37th Annual Convention.
1959 "Spotlight on Steel" before Special Labor Relations Conference American Management Association.
1959 "Changing Aspects of Collective Bargaining" before the 27th Annual Meeting of the National Paperboard Association.
1960 "Development and Problems of the Structure of Collective Bargaining in the Steel Industry" before the McKinsey Seminar, University of Chicago.
1960 "The Cooperation between Operating Executives and Staff in Labor-Management Relations."
1960 "Ornament in Prosperity - Refuge in Adversity" commencement address, St. Xavier College,
1960 "The Role of Labor In Our Society" debate between Caples and Arthur F. Goldberg, USW-CIO Counsel, Carleton College, Minnesota.
1960 "Automation in Theory and Practice."
1960 "The Desolating Pestilence" before the 1960 Public Relations Seminar.
1961 "A Management Viewpoint."
1961 "Your Right to Say It" appearance on WGN-TV Northwestern University Reviewing Stand.
1961 "Industry's Stake in a Family Counseling Service" before the Family Service of Philadelphia.
1961 "The Problems Created By Technological Change" before the 9th Annual Union Management Conference, University of Notre Dame.
1961 "Administration as a Decision - Making Process.
1961 "The Empty Chairs" before the 24th Annual Dinner of the Bureau of Jewish Employment Problems.
1961 Speech before the Industrial Affairs Committee State Senate, Springfield, Illinois.
1961 "Keys to a Career" before the 13th Annual Chicago Area Conference.
1961 "Old Fashioned Fourth of July."
1961 "Mission to Metropolis" before annual meeting of Chicago Home Missionary and Church Extension Society.
1961 "Management's Responsibility for Employee Benefits" before the 15th anniversary Conference Council on Employee Benefits.
1961 "Have Educators Failed Us in Defending Democratic Rights?" before congregation Bnai David.
1962 "The Role of Public Relations in the 1962 Steel Negotiations" to the American Iron and Steel Institute Editors' Workshop.
1962 "Employment Problems Facing School Graduates" before the 13th Annual School Board Associations Conference.
1962 "Labor Negotiations in the 60's — Trends and Effect" before the Society of Automotive Engineers.
1962 "Corporate Management."
1962 "The Impact of the Administration on Labor-Management Relations" to American Mining Congress.
1963 "A View of the Sixties."
1963 "The Personnel Administrator in a Changing World" to the National Personnel Conference of the American Bankers Association.
1963 "New Responsibilities of Labor and Management" before the San Francisco Conference, Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California, Berkeley.
1963 Statement on Proposed F.E.P. Legislation
1963 "Men and Management" before Annual Convention of the National Metal Decorators Association.
1963 "Building a Team Effort."
1964 "Labor-Management Relations in Industry" before Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Washington, D.C.
1964 Remarks by Caples to the Annual Meeting of the National Council on the Aging.
1964 "A Management View of Employment Problems in the Steel Industry for the Next Decade."
1964 "The Implications of Technological Changes for Employment and Education" before a clinic for school administrators.
1964 "The Question of Adequacy" before Conference on Management of Human Resources of the Merchants and Manufacturers Association.
1964 "Problem Areas in Collective Bargaining for the Remainder of the 1960's" to the Arbitration and Mediation Conference.
1964 "The How and Why of Inland's Retirement Program" to the Conference on Preparing Workers for Retirement.
1965 "Some Reflections on the Problems of Collective Bargaining."
1965 "Responsibility of the Business Community for Equal Employment Opportunity" before the Northwest Regional Conference of Business and Community Leaders on Plans for Progress
1965 Statement on On-the-Job Training.
1966 "The Effect of Technological Change on Employees and in the Community" before American Iron and Steel Institute,
1966 "Business Community Responsibility in the Era of Equal Opportunity Employment."
1966 "History of Collective Bargaining in the Steel Industry."
1967-68 "Labor and Labor Relations."
1967-68 "The Challenge of Hope."
1967-68 "Minorities in Break-Through Jobs." before National Industrial Conference Board Seminar.
1967-68 Allyn Lecture Series, College of Business Administration, Kent State University.