002-Charles Briggs
In April 1947, Charles Briggs got the job through his distant relative, Clyde Horton, who worked at the plant.
" I started on one-hundred pound bags, loading railroad cars...seventy tons to a car.... I held eight bags on a two wheel cart... worked fourteen hours a day, seven days a week."
He later worked as a rotary kiln tender for six and a half years. He then pumped #6 Oil to Bunker C.
"It was almost like tar. We had to heat it up in order to pump it out of the tanks."
He worked in shipping and receiving, and then broke a bone in his back and was out for about a year. He returned to work in the laboratory, and retired from Pfizer in 1972.
Charles Briggs North Adams, MA
Worked 24 years
Photographed May 1, 1990