Harry Haywood Interview

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Mr. Haywood?

HARRY HAYWOOD: Huh?

HELFAND: When did go into the cotton mill?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses going to work in the textile mills as a 9 year old.

Keywords: doffer

Subjects: Child labor; Columbus (Ga.); Textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you remember the strike in 1934?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934

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

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Did you live in one of those houses?

HARRY HAYWOOD: Huh?

HELFAND: You lived in a Bradley House?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses the house he lived in as a child and growing up while working in a textile mill.

Keywords: mill villages

Subjects: Child labor; Working class--Dwellings

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you remember a union man named Prince Green?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses the union in Columbus, and child labor.

Keywords: union organizing

Subjects: Child labor; Textile workers--Labor unions; Women textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you remember when Roosevelt got into office?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses Franklin Roosevelt and the impact that the National Recovery Act had on his work in the textile mills.

Keywords: National Recovery Administration; eight hour workday

Subjects: Minimum wage; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Where were you in 1934?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934.

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

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

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Could you play-- the children, while they were working?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses working in the textile mill as child, training his brothers to work,

Keywords: doffer

Subjects: Working class--Recreation

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you think your daddy went out on strike?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses the different amounts of money he made over the years at the textile mill.

Subjects: Wages

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: Do you remember the National Guard coming out in '34?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses his memories of the National Guard, and about his family members who worked in the textile mill.

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

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: What was the hardest thing about the mill?

Segment Synopsis: Harry Haywood discusses working in the textile mill.

Subjects: Textile workers

Partial Transcript: JUDITH HELFAND: So you lived in a mill village?

Segment Synopsis: Judith Helfand wraps up her interview with Harry Haywood.

Keywords: doffer

Subjects: Child labor; Photography of children