Grady Morgan Interview 2

Partial Transcript: GRADY MORGAN: Oh yeah we did the whole time.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discussed why there was not a great deal of unrest in Payne City during the strike.

Keywords: Blue Eagle

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: F1: I mean we would get up in the morning and we'd just stay in sports.

Segment Synopsis: An unidentified woman and Grady Morgan discuss living in the mill village.

Keywords: mill villages; paternalism

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class--Recreation; Working class--Social life and customs

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Yeah where do you think, where, where do you think Bibb got the idea to create--

GRADY MORGAN: I thought it was better working conditons and pay than the other mills.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses why the Bibb Manufacturing Company provided so many services in the mill village.

Keywords: mill villages; paternalism

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: I'm wondering, how the company felt when the workers did take the opportunity to try and organize in 1934?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses union organizing at the Bibb Manufacturing Company, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and violence during the strike.

Keywords: flying squadrons; picket lines; union organizing; violence during the strike

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

Partial Transcript: GRADY MORGAN: Of course Judy, I know, you , your a Northerner, and I know you are with the Northern opinion, I'm with the South and the Southern opinion.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan explains his opinions on unions and how he formed them.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company; Textile workers--Labor unions

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Um, so once they put down the strike, what happened to be who had tried to be in the union?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses the impact of the strike on the Bibb Manufacturing Plant in Payne City, and how the unions organized.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike; union organizing

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

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: When you worked on the floor, did you know everybody by name?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses his relationships with African Americans who worked for Bibb Manufacturing Company.

Keywords: African-American mill workers; mill managers

Subjects: African Americans--Segregation; Bibb Manufacturing Company; Textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Some of the ways that they put down this strike-- this '34 strike is that they deputized people to protect the mill.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses the social worker that worked for Bibb Manufacturing Company, and all of the clubs and societies that the company sponsored,

Keywords: mill villages

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company; Working class--Recreation; Working class--Social conditions; Working class--Social life and customs; Working class--Societies, etc.

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: But the workers never wanted anything like that again?

GRADY MORGAN: If they did, they never did.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses why workers were content at Bibb Manufacturing Company.

Keywords: eight hour workday; mill managers; mill villages; union organizing

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

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: How did they train you to be a superintendent?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses how he learned to be a supervisor, his education, and how many people grew up to work at the textile mill.

Keywords: mill managers

Subjects: Textile workers; Working class--Dwellings; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So maybe you could tell me how you got into textiles?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses going to work in the textile mill, his education, and his childhood.

Keywords: mill villages

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company; Rural-urban migration; Textile workers; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Well tell me about, I'm sure you know the his-- let's say in the early '30s right before the depression, what were the conditions like in the mill?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses his work in the textile mill.

Keywords: mill managers; mill villages

Subjects: Textile factories; Textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Now so were you working in the mill and going to college at the same time?

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses going to college and how this impacted his career in textiles.

Keywords: mill managers

Subjects: Education, Higher; Textile workers; Wages; Working class--Education

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: You went to work right before the NRA, I believe.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan discusses the impact of the National Recovery Act on Bibb Manufacturing Company, and the impact of union organizing.

Keywords: National Industrial Recovery Act section 7a; National Recovery Administration; eight hour workday; union organizing

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Textile workers--Labor unions; United States. National Recovery Administration

Partial Transcript: GRADY MORGAN: But they had activities for those girls. Had, junior girl reserves, girl reserves, had a (inaudible).

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan and an unidentified woman discuss the progressive approach Bibb Manufacturing Company had in regards to its mill villages.

Keywords: mill villages; newspapers

Subjects: Bibb Manufacturing Company

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: I've heard a lot of people who were workers, (inaubdible) really tough, that people in the town looked down on them, they called them lintheads.

Segment Synopsis: Grady Morgan and an unidentifed woman discuss the social stimga assocaited with being a textile worker, and going to college in working class community.

Keywords: lintheads

Subjects: Education, Higher; Textile workers; Working class--Education