Annie Honeycutt Interview 3

Partial Transcript: ANNIE HONEYCUTT: Down his leg and he got where he couldn't do construction work

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses her childhood and how she became a spinnerl

Keywords: eviction from mill village houses; spinners; women mill workers

Subjects: Wages; Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you remember, did they, did they ask you to leave the house immedatly or --?

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses how her father's involvement in labor union in the 1920s cost him his job and the next mill they went to.

Keywords: eviction from mill village houses; mill villages

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Did they union ever-- when, when did the union try and come back again the next time?

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses union organizing, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and looks at some pictures of the strike.

Keywords: eight hour workday; union organizing

Subjects: Labor union meetings; Textile; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now apparently a lot of these people came here and some of the people that were pro union came with flying squadrons.

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses the aftermath of the strike, the legal action she and her husband took after the strike, moving from the mill village, and her husband's work for the WPA.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike; flying squadrons; legal action after the strike; mill villages; union organizing

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; New Deal (1933-1939); Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: What, what I'm real interested in is how he maintained his union activity even after he left the mill?

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses her husbands work with the union after he was laid off and the hearing for workers who were blacklisted.

Keywords: legal action after the strike; union organizing

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Labor unions--Officials and employees; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So then you went back to the mill?

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses going back to work at Cannon Mills, why her husband joined the union, his work as a union organizer, and the impact that it had on the family.

Keywords: Cannon Mills; mill villages

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Cannon Mills Company; New Deal (1933-1939); Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: ANNIE HONEYCUTT: I never did, never did--

JUDITH HELFAND: So that wasn't about getting your jobs back it was about getting back pay?

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses the legal action strikers took to receive back pay owed to them by Cannon Mills and how it made her feel.

Keywords: legal action after the strike

Subjects: Cannon Mills Company; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Was your father still living?

ANNIE HONEYCUTT: No my father's been dead since--

JUDITH HELFAND: No was he still living back in '34?

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses her father's feelings about the union, and how he died.

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions; Working class women--Family relationships

Partial Transcript: ANNIE HONEYCUTT: Well we just lived two houses from the gate, from Cannon Mill at Plant 6.

Segment Synopsis: Annie Honeycutt discusses what the National Guard did during the strike, and her feelings about the union's chances during the textile workers strike of 1934.

Keywords: breaking the strike; mill villages; picket lines

Subjects: Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)