Laura Hull Beard Interview

Partial Transcript: M1: This is tape 3 C.

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M2: Laura Beard

Segment Synopsis: Laura Hull Beard discusses working in the textile mills and being a single mother

Keywords: women mill workers

Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers; Textile workers--Labor unions; Unfair labor practices; Working class women--Family relationships

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Could you tell us how you made a living in those seven years?

LAURA HULL BEARD: Well with any kind of work it would honsetly do from scrubbing floors to picking cotton, doing whatever there was.

Segment Synopsis: Laura Hull Beard discusses the impact of the textile workers's strike of 1934.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike; eviction from mill village houses; union organizing

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: What did you do in the mill?

LAURA HULL BEARD: I worked in the spool room at the last part.

Segment Synopsis: Laura Hull Beard discusses child labor in the textile mills, and being on the picket line.

Keywords: picket lines; women mill workers

Subjects: Child labor--Law and legislation

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now tell us about living in the mill house.

LAURA HULL BEARD: I only lived in the mill house four years, so...

Segment Synopsis: Laura Hull Beard discusses the places her family has lived, including a period when they were homeless and about her children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, and great-great grandchildren

Keywords: eviction from mill village houses; mill villages

Subjects: Homelessness; Working class women--Family relationships; Working class--Dwellings

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now do you have any advice for young textile workers?

LAURA HULL BEARD: Get acquainted with the land -- the property owners before you get in there.

Segment Synopsis: Laura Hull Beard advises textile workers to join unions.

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions