Columbia Conserve Company Records, 1932-1933
Collection Number: 5232
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Columbia Conserve Company Records, 1932-1933
Repository:
Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Collection Number:
5232
Abstract:
The collection consists of the mimeographed minutes of the meetings of the employees
council from December 1952 to July 1933.
Creator:
Columbia Conserve Company
Quanitities:
0.5 cubic feet
Language:
Collection material in English
Mr. William P. Hapgood, president of the Columbia Conserve Company believed that industrial
democracy meant "government of the workers, by the workers, for the workers." In 1917
Mr. Hapgood started his plan, by giving the workers the right to make rules governing
their hours, incomes, hiring and firing and to decide upon all policies of the company.
Various measures adopted by the plant reflect the improvement of the workers. The
55 hour week was reduced to 50 in 1917 and 45 in 1924 when a five day week and a 9
hour day were reestablished.
The maximum salary was set at $5,000. per year. Minimum salaries were established
were $22 per week for unmarried and $33 per week for married men, with an additional
$2 for each child, married women, where husbands were also employed received $19 per
week in 1931.
Dividends were paid to employees at the same rate as on capital stock based on the
payroll until 1925 when an agreement was reached for the employees to purchase common
stock with their share of the profits.
Records consist chiefly of the minutes (1932-1933) of the Employee Council of the
Columbia Conserve Co. of Indianapolis, Ind. In addition, this collection includes
a brochure describing the Columbia Conserve Company's products and organization; and
a pamphlet by Norman Hapgood entitled "The Columbia Conserve and the Committee of
Four" (1922).
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archivist for access to these materials.
This collection must be used in keeping with the Kheel Center Information Sheet and
Procedures for Document Use.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Columbia Conserve Company Records #5232. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation
and Archives, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Columbia Conserve Company.
Columbia Conserve Company. Employee Council.
Subjects:
Works councils--United States.
Cannery workers.
Industrial democracy. United States.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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| Box 1 | Folder 3 |
Columbia Conserve Company Council Meeting Minutes (8/5/1932-7/17/1933)
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Record Group A-16 (2 of 2)
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Record Group A-16 (1 of 2)
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