Eula McGill Interview 13

Partial Transcript: JACQUELINE HALL: Um I came across a report that Louise Leonard McLaren wrote in '37, she was traveling through the south talking to people and trying to recruit students for the Southern Summer School for Women Workers.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses her opinions on the education of workers in the history, goal and tactics of the labor union movement.

Keywords: union organizing; women mill workers

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions; Women labor leaders

Partial Transcript: JACQUELINE HALL: Well I wanted to just talk about some of the campaigns that you were involved in after World War II.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses various organizing campaigns in the South and the difference between the United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) campaigns and those lead by Amalgamated Clothing Textile Workers Union (ACTWU).

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; Textile workers--Labor unions; United Textile Workers of America

Partial Transcript: JACQUELINE HALL: Now that '47 campaign was the time which you and Mary Martin---

EULA MCGILL: Morgan.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses an organizing campaign in Tennessee and the ways in which they fought unfair labor practices that were occurring.

Keywords: labor law violations; picket lines

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JACQULINE HALL : Now does the whole (inaudible) campagin in Knoxville, that was-- you never got a contract, that was unsucessful?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discuss various organizing efforts in the South and issues with the Coal Miners' unions.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Coal miners--Labor unions--Organizing; Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JACQUELINE HALL: Tell me about this incident when they broke into the union hall.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discuss violence surrounding union organizing.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

Partial Transcript: EULA MCGILL: The first day they put the picket line at the Imperial Shirt Plant, that plant had their clocks to get off 5 minutes earlier than other plants.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses a labor dispute that happened around Imperial Mills.

Subjects: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; Textile workers--Labor unions; Women labor leaders

Partial Transcript: JACQULINE HALL: Did you get any support from the churches like that in any of --

EULA MCGILL: Oh no.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses the opposition churches had towards the labor unions.

Subjects: Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity

Partial Transcript: JACQULINE HALL: You were serving in the OPA price panel during this--

EULA MCGILL: World War II.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses her work on the OPA to help set prices on goods and ensuring that food stuffs were not contaminated during World War II.

Subjects: World War (1939-1945)

Partial Transcript: JACQULINE HALL: In noticed that the '46 Almagmated convention was in Atlanta?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses the ACTWU Conventions ins the the post war period, how they worked to make union organizing in the South a priority, and the impact of the Taft Hartley Act.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

Partial Transcript: JACQUELINE HALL: You went back on staff as an organizer in --

EULA MCGILL: '51.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses organizing campaigns in the South during the post war period, what role she enjoyed most, and several strikes that occured as result.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union; Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry; Textile workers--Labor unions