J.H Payne Interview 1

Partial Transcript: J.H. Payne: -- and that's about it.

F1: SO you never kept up the folks at Louise Mill to find out whatever happened to them once the mill closed down, what did the do?

Segment Synopsis: J.H. Payne discusses the closing down of the Louise Mill, the mill village, and working as a weaver.

Keywords: mill villages; weaving

Subjects: Segregation; Working class--Dwellings

Partial Transcript: F1: Can you go back to when you were growing up and your dad was a loom fixer and he had worked in the mill all his life, is that right?

Segment Synopsis: J.H. Payne discusses his father.

Keywords: loom fixing

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: F1: So what did he think about you going around trying to organize all these unions?

Segment Synopsis: J.H. Payne discusses working as a volunteer organizer.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: F1: It just seems pretty incredible that,that, that you would spend all that time and energy. You have have to have a lot of faith, or something especially when everybody is so scared.

Segment Synopsis: J.H. Payne discusses how his religious beliefs informed his work as an organizer and the issues that he ran into with various churches.

Keywords: churches; union organizing

Subjects: Labor--Religious aspects--Christianity; Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: F1: Well I have one other question about the hosiery mills. Seems like there were a lot, a lot of organzing going on in the hosiery mills at the same time.

Segment Synopsis: J.H. Payne discusses his work with the United Textile Workers of America.

Keywords: Frank Gorman; union organizing

Subjects: Textile workers--Labor unions; United Textile Workers of America