Eula McGill Interview 16

Partial Transcript: EULA MCGILL:-- men who work for Labor Unions. Tired to get numbers you know.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses her work with the Women's Trade Union League, the work the League did with African American Domestic Workers, and why they had trouble sustaining the League.

Keywords: domestic workers

Subjects: African American women; Women in the labor movement

Partial Transcript: F1: You went to a convention in Washington--

EULA MCGILL: Yeah during the time. I went.

F1:-- to the '36 convention?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses going to Washington DC for the Women's Trade League Convention in 1936,

Subjects: Roosevelt, Eleanor, 1884-1962; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Women in the labor movement

Partial Transcript: F1: So how did it come about that that trip caused you to loose your job?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses why she was fired from her work as textile worker, and how she got by, her work as volunteer organizer.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Labor unions--Organizing; Women in the labor movement; Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: F!: How did you get your first paid organizing job?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses how she became a professional union organziner, her work with Homer Welch, a strike in Talladega, and the legal action after the strike.

Keywords: picket lines; union organizing

Subjects: Labor unions--Officials and employees; Labor unions--Organizing; Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry; Women in the labor movement

Partial Transcript: EULA MCGILL: But I wasn't fired, I was laid off in the lay off.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses how she got laid of as an organizer, and how she met Miles Horton.

Subjects: Women in the labor movement

Partial Transcript: F1: When you went to work for Amalgamated, then you went to Atlanta?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses going to work for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers, some of the people she worked with, a tailor who taught her about the union

Subjects: Labor unions--Organizing; Wages; Women in the labor movement; Women labor leaders

Partial Transcript: F1: What about people's attitude towards a young woman traveling alone and living that kind of unusual life?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses how people perceived women organizers.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Labor unions--Officials and employees; Labor unions--Organizing; Women in the labor movement; Working class women

Partial Transcript: F1: What about, this is just a general question about workers' education. Were you ever much involved in the workers' education arm of the union?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses workers' education, in the plant and in places like Highlander Folk School.

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: EULA MCGILL: She's talking about Sparta, Tennessee.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses an incident that occurred in Tennessee with an organizer.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: F1: Why did you,-- you went to LaFollet then in '43 as business agent.

EULA MCGILL: Yeah.

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses a conflict between the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and United Mine Workers in LaFollette Tennessee.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union

Partial Transcript: F1: Was it unusual for a woman to be business agent when you went there?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses people's reactions to her as business agent and the conflict in LaFollette.

Keywords: women mill workers

Subjects: Women labor leaders; Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: F1: So what happened in LaFollette then?

EULA MCGILL: Then?

Segment Synopsis: Eula McGill discusses violence in LaFollette

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Labor unions--Elections