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Partial Transcript: FOOTS WEAVER:-- and that Monday morning (inaudible) right next to them , my next job.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, how the treasurer ran off with the money, union organizing and his political leanings.
Keywords: union organizing
Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: What were the conditions like in the mill that made everybody want to organize a union.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses working at Cherokee Spinning Company, union organizing, the leadership of the union local, and Lucille Thornburgh.
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; Lucille Thornburgh
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: You started working at Cherokee in 1922--
FOOTS WEAVER: 1922. And then I left there and went to Ohio, and stayed in Ohio until 1927.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses how he came to work a Cherokee Spinning Company, his work in textile mills and conditions in the textile mill
Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; spinning
Subjects: Textile factories; Textile workers--Labor unions
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Tell me about how hard you worked to organize.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses his work as a volunteer organizer, and issues with wages at Cherokee Spinning Company.
Keywords: union organizing
Subjects: Collective bargaining--Textile industry; Textile workers--Labor unions; Wages
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Partial Transcript: FOOTS WEAVER: When I was blackballed, Lucille was blackballed, she couldn't go to work back down there. Jimmy Monroe was blackballed he couldn't go back to work down there.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses how being blacklisted actually turned out to be a good thing for some workers in the long run, organizing at Cherokee Mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and a walk out in 1933.
Keywords: National Industrial Recovery Act section 7a; picket lines; union organizing
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United States. National Recovery Administration
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Partial Transcript: F1: What did you do to help organize?
FOOTS WEAVER: Personally to organize, that's what i'd done just now, I went through the history of it.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses his work organizing and how an injunction broke the strike at Cherokee,
Keywords: breaking the strike; picket lines; union organizing
Subjects: Labor union locals; Labor union meetings; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Well the strike was over, right?
FOOTS WEAVER: Yeah.
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses what happened when the strike ended, and Judith Helfand discovers that she is talking with Foots Weaver and discusses the media coverage of the strike.
Subjects: Labor leaders; Labor unions and mass media; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now did you go to North Carolina with a lot of the other blacklisted mill workers?
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses how he and other blacklisted textile workers had to leave Knoxville after the textile workers' strike of 1934.
Keywords: aftermath of the strike
Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
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Partial Transcript: FOOTS WEAVER: Let's see I was born in '07, 1907, I was -- my mother died in 1934 she did, she feel and broke her neck down a pair of steps
Segment Synopsis: Foots Weaver discusses the issues he had with trying to organzie and sustain the union in Knoxville.
Keywords: union organizing
Subjects: Labor leaders; Textile workers--Labor unions