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Partial Transcript: LUCILLE THORNBURGH: I don't know why I am making this noise.
GEORGE STONEY: Even now its, its strange how, how--
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses working at Cherokee Spinning Company.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; National Recovery Administration; eight hour workday; winders
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Wages--Women; Working class--Books and reading
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Partial Transcript: LUCILLE THORNBURGH:-- workers left here. You know they had to leave. They couldn't find jobs here.
Segment Synopsis: Lucillie Thornburgh discusses the blacklisting of workers, how she feels about getting older, and national healthcare.
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Gastonia (N.C.); Health care reform
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: When we read something about what at the-- at, at your mill, uh but what I don't know is what motivated you to get involved with organization.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh talks about how she educated herself about the union and how she became an organizer.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company
Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions; Women textile workers; Working class--Books and reading
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now may I just ask you very pointed question? When we started this, and remember I grew up in Winston Salem, and grew up in a factory town and all that kind of thing-- but I would have thought, I would have anticipated that there would be a lot of resentment on the part of cotton mill workers.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discuses resentment of mill owners by mill employees and the connection between mill owners and churches in Knoxville.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; mill owners
Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions
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Partial Transcript: LUCILLE THORNBURGH: And Miles taught us some union songs, that Solidarity Forever and forgotten another one--
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses the songs they sand during the textile workers' strike of 1934.
Keywords: union songs
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: We know that in '32, uh '33 when the code came in things changes radically.
LUCILLE THORNBURG: Absolutely.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses the impact of the the eight hour day, the minium wage, the stretch-out, the textile workers' strike of 1934, her family's feelings about union organizing work
Keywords: National Recovery Administration; eight hour workday; stretch-out; union organizing
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Labor unions and communism; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United States. National Recovery Administration; Wages; Women in the labor movement
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: One of the accusations was that a guy who was a supervisor in the spinning room took advantage of the girls and said if they didn't go out with him and so forth, that they'd get fired.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses issues surrounding workers' knowledge of the labor movement, leadership issues with Francis Gorman, the head of the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA), and listening to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the relationship that the textile workers' had with Roosevelt.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; National Industrial Recovery Act section 7a; women mill workers
Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Sexual harassment; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United Textile Workers of America
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Partial Transcript: LUCILLE THORNBURGH: Oh and let me tell you something else too, that this is going back to what we were talking about, that during the strike, I said that the churches were against us.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses how the Protestant denominations did not help the union cause, while the Catholic Church and local Jewish community did.
Subjects: Baptists; Catholic Church; Judaism; Methodist Church; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: How did you feel when the, when such an overwhelming vote against joining the strike a week before it was going to be called.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses issues with going out on strike, the death of the mill owner, and the lack of trouble with police during the strike, and the injunction against the union
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now in the documents here, in addition to writing to Johnson, and Roosevelt, you wrote, or members of your union wrote, your precedent of your local wrote to Donald Richburg, and who else, a number of New Deal leaders.
Segment Synopsis: Lucille discusses her union's letter writing campaign, how they organized the union, and who of these letter writers might still be alive.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; union organizing
Subjects: Letter writing; Letters to the editor; New Deal (1933-1939); Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Textile workers--Labor unions; Working class--Education
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now what about all the minutes to your meetings?
Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses how being in the labor movement empowered her, the discrimination still facing women in the labor movement and other topics.
Keywords: Labor Day; Labor Day parade; women mill workers
Subjects: Sex discrimination against women; Textile workers--Labor unions; Women in the labor movement