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Partial Transcript: BURNS COX: -- when they organzied.
GEORGE STONEY: Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's-- are you rewinding it?
JUDITH HELFAND: No.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses working at the Dwight Manufacturing Company, how the mill has been turned into a shopping center, and how he helped organize the Dixie Federation of Labor.
Keywords: eviction from mill village houses; picket lines; union organizing
Subjects: Labor unions--Officials and employees; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions; United Textile Workers of America
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Partial Transcript: BURNS COX: Ordered to go back to work. Well Cox and Dean come down here, made a speech down there, said the strike is over, get back to work, get back anyway you can get back.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses reforming a local union after the strike, getting a contract in 1945, a strike in 1950, and negotiating wages.
Keywords: aftermath of the strike
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Dwight Manufacturing Company; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Let's go back now to, to 1933. You were working in the mills and what were you making then?
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses the wage he made and the hours he worked, as well as about the textile workers' strike of 1934
Keywords: National Industrial Recovery Act section 7a; doffer; eight hour workday; stretch-out
Subjects: Child labor; Child labor--Law and legislation; United States. National Recovery Administration; Wages
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Uh could you describe again your early organizing how you went out into the woods and so forth?
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses the founding and organizing of the Dixie Federation of labor, the impact of having the United Textile Workers take it over, and the aftermath of the strike.
Keywords: aftermath of the strike; eviction from mill village houses; picket lines; union organizing
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Textile workers--Labor unions; United Textile Workers of America
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Partial Transcript: BURNS COX: He's the one that finally took over the Dwight Manufacturing Association, company union we called it.
GEORGE STONEY: Aha!
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses how the Dixie Federation of Labor was taken over by the Untied Textile Workers of America, and the Dwight Manufacturing Association, the company union.
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Dwight Manufacturing Company; United Textile Workers of America
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now here's a woman named Louise Walker.
BURNS COX: Louise Walker.
GEORGE STONEY: Applied for a job when strike was called off.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses sexual harassment at Dwight Manufacturing Company.
Keywords: women mill workers
Subjects: Dwight Manufacturing Company; Sexual harassment
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Partial Transcript: BURNS COX: Back in 1900, 1907, 1908, 1909, my folks come to this town in 1909, and my sister, 2 of my sisters, 2 of my brothers, all 3 of my brothers went to work up here in the mill along with Poppa.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox talks about how his family came to Gasdsen, Ala.
Keywords: mill villages
Subjects: Dwight Manufacturing Company; Rural-urban migration; Working class--Dwellings
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Let's see the other people here, May Gibson, uh, she was, uh, yeah, she was fired. Annie Bell Harrison.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox listens to list of union members who were blacklisted names and discusses whether or not they are still living.
Keywords: aftermath of the strike; legacy of the strike
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Textile workers--Labor unions
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Partial Transcript: BURNS COX: Well nobody went in and out of that plant there the whole time we was down.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses being on the picket line during the textile workers' strike of 1934, and how the Dixie Federation Labor applied the lessons learned from '34 strike, in strikes in the 1940s and 1950s.
Keywords: legacy of the strike; picket lines
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United Textile Workers of America
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now, what was life like in the Mill Village? Did the employers pretty well control life in the village?
BURNS COX: Back them days before the union come in, yes sir.
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses living in the mill village, and buying his home from the mill in the 1950s.
Keywords: mill villages; paternalism
Subjects: Working class--Dwellings
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: You remember Janet, the young woman that you met with Eula.
BURNS COX: Yeah.
JUDITH HELFAND: She mentioned to me that you had told her that your local union meetings, the meetings that you had with the Dixie Federation?
Segment Synopsis: Burns Cox discusses company spies and union organizing and the use of police to break the strike.
Keywords: breaking the strike; picket lines; union organizing
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions