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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: If you could just tell me, you know, your name, where you live now, and where you lived then, and the mill that we'll be talking about. That'd be great.
Segment Synopsis: M. L. Brackett started working at the Highland Park Mill in Charlotte, N.C. in 1934. He discusses the Highland Park Mills, Johnston Mills, cotton fields, cotton ginning, and victory gardens.
Keywords: National Recovery Administration; mill buildings; mill owners
Subjects: Charlotte (N.C.); Cotton; Cotton manufacture; Cotton picking; Minimum wage; United States National Recovery Administration; Victory gardens
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Partial Transcript: M. L. BRACKETT: I went to work at Highland Park in September 1934 after the strike ended.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett and his wife discuss meeting in the mill village and their work inside Highland Park Mill, hourly wages, and eight hour work days.
Keywords: eight hour workday; loom fixing; mill villages; settlement of the strike; weavers
Subjects: Charlotte (N.C.); Hours of Labor--Law and legislation; Looms; Strikes and lockouts; Wages; Wages--Women
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now you said before that the reason why they were striking, and a lot of people, some people aren't really clear on why they were striking. They say they just wanted more money.
Segment Synopsis: M. L. Brackett discusses the reason why Highland Mill decided to strike, the mill management response, and the changes brought by the National Recovery Act.
Keywords: National Recovery Administration; aftermath of the strike; spinning; stretch-out
Subjects: Machinery; New Deal (1933-1939); Strikes and lockouts; United States. National Recovery Administration
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Partial Transcript: M.L. BRACKETT: All this time I was going to night school. Now, not many people went to college in those days.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett discusses going to night school, mill village homes, rent prices, and rules for obtaining a mill village home.
Keywords: mill villages
Subjects: Automobiles; Baths; Cable cars (Streetcars); College students; Housing
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Were they trying to bring in a union? Was that what they were trying to do?
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett discusses union efforts at Highland Park Mill in the 1930s. He describes management response, violence and the National Guard, union recruitment, and news coverage of the strikes.
Keywords: conflicts between mill workers and management; mill managers; newsreels; union organizing; violence during the strike
Subjects: Industrial management; Labor unions--Organizing; National Guard Association of the United States; Preaching; Television broadcasting of news; Towers; Violence
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Partial Transcript: M.L. BRACKETT: See, what I was going to say was back in the thirties, at the time of the strikes, um, a lot of the mills just weren't making any money at all.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett discusses mill closures due to increase of wages with the NRA. He also talks about the mill's decision to sell mill village homes to mill workers who could also get a loan from them for the home as well as selling stocks.
Keywords: National Recovery Administration; paternalism
Subjects: Air conditioning; Baths; Machinery--Maintenance and repair; Mortgage loans; Propaganda; Stocks; United States. National Recovery Administration; Wages
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Partial Transcript: M.L. BRACKETT: But the thing that so many people don't realize is the condition that this country was in, in 1934.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett describes being poor in the south in the 1930s, and his and his wife's efforts to improve their position in the mill, his military service, and finally why other mill workers were not as successful in their opinion.
Keywords: settlement of the strike
Subjects: Automobiles; Boardinghouses; Draft; Industrial promotion; Poverty; Rural poor; Strikes and lockouts; Wages
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now, do people, the mill just closed, they just said we're not going to deal with this, in '34, and they just closed?
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett describes the Highland Park Mill closure in 1934, picketing, union organizing, Samuel Gompers, and the negative aspects of union actions.
Keywords: breaking the strike; flying squadrons; paternalism; picket lines; settlement of the strike; union organizing; violence during the strike
Subjects: Clothing factories; Labor unions--Organizing; Negotiation; Nonviolence; Picketing; Strikebreakers; Strikes and lockouts; Union dues; Violence
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Partial Transcript: M.L. BRACKETT: And, most textile companies are public companies.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett describes the textile mill industry, profit/loss, wages, competition, and the impact of fair/free trade on the mills.
Keywords: conflicts between mill workers and management
Subjects: Minimum wage; Textile industry; Wages
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Partial Transcript: M.L. BRACKETT: When you make your film, just keep in mind that, uh, all the mill owners didn't have horns.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett discusses mill owners and their image versus the reality as he sees it. He talks about mill villages, eviction, and the types of homes built by the mill.
Keywords: conflicts between mill workers and management; eviction from mill village houses; mill managers; mill owners; mill villages
Subjects: Eviction; Industrial management; house
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Partial Transcript: M.L. BRACKETT: The churches did more controlling of morality than, uh, the mill didn't have to do anything.
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett describes the types of churches surrounding the mill village, their role in policing morality, and their social welfare efforts.
Keywords: churches; mill villages
Subjects: Baptist church buildings; Catholic Church; Church; Church attendance; Church buildings; Hunger; Methodist Church; Methodist church buildings; Moralities; Public welfare
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Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: I wonder, um, those people that did stay outside and did do that picketing at Highland Park during those three weeks? Were they allowed to go back to work afterwards?
Segment Synopsis: M.L. Brackett discusses the reception the 1934 Highland Park Mill picketers received when the strike was over and they returned to work.
Keywords: picket lines
Subjects: Great Depression; Picketing; Textile industry; Wages