Stories of a second-generation ironworker from Iowa
By: Ira Dale Mays ; an interview conducted by Judith K. Dunning in 1985.
Contributors: Dunning, Judith.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Online Archive of California.
Publisher: Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California
Published: 1992
Language: eng
Number of pages: 96
Subjects: Kaiser Shipyards (Richmond, Calif.); Iron and steel workers -- California -- Interviews; Richmond (Calif.) -- History
Other titles: Stories of a second generation ironworker from Iowa; On the waterfront : an oral history of Richmond, California.
Description: Mays discusses his family background, Waterloo, Iowa; Free Methodist Church; move to Richmond, WWII; Kaiser Shipyards: schedule, supervision, pranks, women welders; ironworkers: health risks, women and minorities in trade, work on Richmond- San Rafael Bridge; postwar Richmond.