Lucille Thornburgh Interview 14

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: -- stuck by you. You know if there were other parts of the community that stuck by you even after this--

Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses the lack of community support for the textile workers during the textile workers' strike of 1934, and her work in the labor movement.

Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company; spinners; weavers; women mill workers

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Knoxville (Tenn.); Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary; Women in the labor movement; Women labor leaders

Partial Transcript: LUCILLE THORNBURGH: The next thing that I was involved in, in the labor movement, that was really note worthy was the big Labor Day celebration we had here in 1936.

Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses a Labor Day parade she helped organize in 1936, and her work in East Tennessee with the labor movement.

Keywords: Labor Day

Subjects: Women in the labor movement

Partial Transcript: LUCILLE THORNBURGH: Then in 1947, I was given, the AF of L gave me a scholarship to Ruskin College at Oxford England, and I was over there.

Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thornburgh discusses her involvement with the American Federation of Labor during the 1930s and 1940s.

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

Partial Transcript: M1: Okay so just do a little and then go quick in.

Segment Synopsis: Lucille Thrornburgh discusses photos of her taken in relation to her work in the labor movement and discusses the textile workers's trike of 1934.

Keywords: Cherokee Spinning Company

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Photographs; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); United States. Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary