Etta Mae Zimmerman, Robert Zimmerman Interview

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Alright sir.

ROGER ZIMMERMAN: I think that the demonstrations that Aunt Mae, Mama and Papa were involved in, they were worried about Hogansville, Newnan, and LaGrange. I don't know that they ever tied it together that this was South wide or nationwide.

Segment Synopsis: Roger Zimmerman and Etta Mae Zimmerman discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934 and the imprisonment of the strikers.

Keywords: imprisonment of strikers; newspapers

Subjects: LaGrange (Ga.); Newnan (Ga.); Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: ROGER ZIMMERMAN: Camp's own flying squadron. So it must have been the airforce, there's that word again. Borrowing the tactics of the militant textile strikers and emulating the military acumen of Caesar Adjunct General Lindsey Camp organized his own flying squadron of guardsmen Monday.

Segment Synopsis: Roger Zimmerman and Etta Mae Zimmerman read an article about National Guard tactics and discuss Eugene Talmadge.

Keywords: national guard

Subjects: Newnan (Ga.); Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: ROGER ZIMMERMAN: "Goodbye General We Had a Swell Time. That is what these 16 women shouted as they and 119--"

ETTA MAE ZIMMERMAN: Now that is not true.

Segment Synopsis: Roger Zimmerman and Etta Mae Zimmerman discuss how the media covered the strike and the imprisonment of the strikers.

Keywords: imprisonment of strikers; newsreels

Subjects: Labor unions and mass media; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934); Vietnam War (1961-1975)

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Either of mills but knew the town and people who worked in the mills. And somebody-- did you ever work in the mill?

Segment Synopsis: An unidentified narrator discusses his childhood memories of the strike with Etta Mae Zimmerman and Roger Zimmerman.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike; legacy of the strike; mill managers; mill villages

Subjects: Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: That sounds like a good story.

ROGER ZIMMERMAN: I didn't know--

GEORGE STONEY: Tell us about it.

Segment Synopsis: Etta Mae Zimmerman, Roger Zimmerman and the unidentified narrator discuss the mill owners negative view about drinking and how that impacted people's lives in the mill village.

Keywords: mill villages; paternalism

Subjects: Drinking of alcoholic beverages; Newnan (Ga.); Working class--Recreation

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: After the strike, uh what happened to the ringleaders?

M1: Well Homer-- Homer Welch left here but I don't know the reason.

Segment Synopsis: Etta Mae Zimmerman and an unidentified man discuss Homer Welch, his work as an organizer and what happened to him after the strike.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike

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

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Now you were in management here, uh, how did management look on--

[break in video]

M1; I didn't go into management until 1952.

Segment Synopsis: Roger Zimmerman, Etta Mae Zimmerman and an unidentified man discuss the aftermath and legacy of the strike.

Keywords: aftermath of the strike; legacy of the strike; mill managers

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

Partial Transcript: GEORGE STONEY: Uh, we have 2 letters, uh which Mr. Zimmerman wrote. One to Roosevelt and one to Talmadge. Uh, Etta Mae can you tell us why your father wrote these two letters?

Segment Synopsis: An unidentified man reads a letter from Mr. J.M. Zimmerman to Governor Eugene Talmadge.

Keywords: imprisonment of strikers

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