Cynthia Haynes Interview 2

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: The other thing that I asked before is what was your mother's condition like?

CYNTHIA HAYNES: She was like, she couldn't breathe and she couldn't even turn over.

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia Haynes discusses her mother's issues with brown lung and her own breathing problems from working in the textile mill.

Keywords: brown lung; spinners; spinning

Subjects: Cannon Mills Company; Textile workers--Health and hygiene

Partial Transcript: CYNTHIA HAYNES: I've been working for Fieldcrest Cannon for 21 years. When I started it was Cannon Mill. Then we changed to Murdoch, but he didn't change the name of the mill.

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia Haynes discusses why she wants Fieldcrest Cannon to unionize

Keywords: eight hour workday; unions outside the South

Subjects: Cannon Mills Company; Unfair labor practices

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now what about the pension and all? I mean can you talk about the future? can you talk about your fears for the future?

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia Haynes discusses her concerns about her pension.

Subjects: Retirement

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you think your family would mention, about your uncle's union activity, if they were so, they would mention it?

CYNTHIA HAYNES: I think, I think, I think Aunt Pauline would?

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia talks about the involvement of African American mill workers in both pro and anti union campaigns going on at Fieldcrest Cannon.

Keywords: African-American mill workers

Subjects: African Americans--Civil rights; Segregation in education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Well what were the movies like, that they showed you one movie so far?

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia discusses an anti union movie shown to workers at Fieldcrest Cannon.

Keywords: anti-union sentiment in the South

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: More than who knows?

CYNTHIA HAYNES: My people.

JUDITH HELFAND: What do you think your people know about your Uncle?

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia Haynes discusses her Uncle Red and his union organizing during the 1930s.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: CYNTHIA HAYNES: But the people think, the people here think, they want union dues, they just want money.

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia Haynes discusses some of the tactics Fieldcrest Cannon used against the Amalgamated Textile and Clothing Workers Union,and her father decision during the textile workers' strike of 1934 to cross the picket line.

Keywords: eviction from mill village houses; mill villages; paternalism; picket lines

Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: CYNTHIA HAYNES: You gotta go?

JUDITH HELFAND: I got to call that gentleman, I had such a good time. Haven't you?

HAYNES : Yeah.

Segment Synopsis: Cynthia Haynes discusses how her mother suffered from brown lung.

Keywords: brown lung; mill villages; spinners

Subjects: Cannon Mills Company; Textile workers--Health and hygiene: Blacklisting, Labor