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Partial Transcript: MATTIE KNIGHT:-- 60 years.
JUDITH HELFAND: Nuh-uh. And if you even lean on the table a little and I'll move this.
Segment Synopsis: Leonard Knight and Mattie Knight discuss how they went to work in the textile mills and what their jobs were like.
Keywords: doffer; mill managers; winders
Subjects: Child labor; Textile workers; Wages--Women; Women textile workers
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Partial Transcript: MATTIE KNIGHT: Roosevelt went in there, he cut us down to 8 hours--
LEONARD KNIGHT: (inaudible)
MATTIE KNIGHT:-- and raised us up.
Segment Synopsis: Leonard Knight and Mattie Knight discuss the impact that the eight hour workday and the minimum wage had on their lives, and why the switched from working at Appalachian Mills to Cherokee Spinning Company.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; eight hour workday; weavers; women mill workers
Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Wages; Wages--Women; Women textile workers; Working class women--Family relationships
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Partial Transcript: LEONARD KNIGHT: Now see that's how (inaudible) relations that the worker had with his boss.
Segment Synopsis: Leonard and Mattie Knight discuss the impact that the New Deal and Franklin Roosevelt had on their lives and community.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; National Industrial Recovery Act section 7a; eight hour workday; paternalism; union organizing
Subjects: New Deal (1933-1939); Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: My first question is about that bee-do man. I want you to tell me again, what that problem was and why you left that mill.
Segment Synopsis: Leonard Knight and Mattie Knight discuss how quality control and efficiency measures were implemented in the mill and what they have done since their retirement from textiles.
Keywords: stretch-out
Subjects: Retirement; Textile workers; Wages
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Partial Transcript: MATTIE KNIGHT: And weaving, I loved to weave, cause I, you could, well a mill like Cherokee you had different types of material.
Segment Synopsis: Mattie and Leonard Knight discuss working in Pennsylvania, weaving, and the term linthead.
Keywords: lintheads; weaving
Subjects: Textile workers; Working class
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Partial Transcript: HELFAND: That kind of thing.
LEONARD KNIGHT: Well, now talking about that, now you're talking about Luther, my brother.
Segment Synopsis: Leonard and Mattie Knight discuss why they always able to find work, some of the places that they traveled to, to find work, and how often they met people from Knoxville textile mills in there travels.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; aftermath of the strike; union organizing
Subjects: Textile workers; Working class--Education