NAME: JOHNSON, CAROL

BORN: Albert City, Iowa (1914)

DIED:

GENDER: m

INTERVIEWER: Davis

DATE: 11/17/82

TOWN: STORM LAKE

UNION: AMCBW Local 191, UFCW Local 191

OFFICES HELD: Steward, Chief Steward, AMCBW Local 191

COMPANIES: Kingan Company, Hygrade Food Products Corporation

TIME PERIOD: 1940s–1980s

INDEX

Aalf-Baker Mfg. Company, 21

Albert City, Iowa––b. 1914, 1

AMCBW––contracts and negotiations, 23–24

AMCBW––grievances and arbitrations, 24

AMCBW––master agreements, 25–26

AMCBW––officers and elections, 18–20

Community service––ABCBW Local 191, 26–29

Helstein, Ralph, 22

Hygrade Food Products Corp, 3–29

Immigrants––Swedish, 1–2

Incentive systems––packinghouse industry, 14–16

Johnson, Carol, 1–29

Kingan Company, see Hygrade Food Products Corp

Labor unions––AMCBW Local 191, 3–29

Labor unions––UFCW Local 191, 3-29

Meatpacking unions––1968 merger, 22–23

Meatpacking unions––jurisdictional competition, 22

Military service––World War II, 2–3

Nash Brothers Packing Plant, see Kingan Company

Nash, Tom, 5–6, 8

Packinghouse industry (1920s–50s)––description of work, 3–10

Packinghouse industry (1960s–90s)––pace of work, 10–11, 14–18

Packinghouse strike of 1946, 23

Safety conditions––packinghouse industry, 12–14

Storm Lake, Iowa, 1–29

Time-studies––packinghouse industry, 17

Women workers––employment, packinghouse industry, 12