E. Lloyd Kirby Interview 3

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Can you count to ten for me?

Segment Synopsis: E. Lloyd Kirby discusses how he lost his job as a loom fixer.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike; loom fixing

Subjects: Labor union locals; Labor unions--Officials and employees

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Would you say that after the strike everyone went back to work and your union kept on meeting?

Segment Synopsis: E Lloyd Kirby discusses why the union local built a union hall, how the union survived the strike but not its aftermath, and the NRA.

Keywords: National Industrial Recovery Act section 7a; National Recovery Administration; aftermath of the strike

Subjects: Labor union locals; United States. National Recovery Administration

Partial Transcript: E. LLOYD KIRBY: Until we got a satisfactory agreement with the company and all went back to work.

Segment Synopsis: E. Lloyd Kirby discusses his local union's relationship with the textile mill, building the union hall, union organizing, and a company spy in the union.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Labor union locals; Labor union meetings; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So you all decided to get yourselves your own piece of land?

E. LLOYD KIRBY: Right.

Segment Synopsis: E. Lloyd Kirby discusses the construction of the union hall, and the meetings that took place there.

Subjects: Labor union locals; Labor union meetings

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now you knew that there were lots of other local unions in Spartenburg area that were pretty strong weren't they?

Segment Synopsis: E. Lloyd Kirby discusses union activity in South Carolina, building the union hall, and why he was involved with the union.

Keywords: union organizing

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

Partial Transcript: E. LLOYD KIRBY: After thinking about it, I believe I worked there over a year after the strike.

Segment Synopsis: E. Lloyd Kirby discusses how after the strike he worked at the textile mill and how they found a way to fire him, and what he did after that.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now all this time what happened to the union hall? From 1934 on, you guys kept on meeting in the union hall?

Segment Synopsis: E. Llody Kirby discusses being blacklisted.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike

Subjects: Blacklisting, Labor

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now were you aware that, that the South Carolina had all this union organizing going on at the same time?

Segment Synopsis: E. Lloyd Kirby and an unidentified woman discuss the union hall.

Keywords: union organizing

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