A.M. Smyre Manufacturing Company (Gastonia, N.C.)

Haas discusses working at the A.M. Smyre Mill, labor organizing during the 1930s, and the effects of the Textile Workers' Strike of 1934. Doster discusses his service in the National Guard, working at Springs Industries, working as a loom fixer, working as supervisor, Colonel Elliot Spring, and other topics.

Helton shows Stoney the areas where strikers picketed and where union members lived. Helton and Moore discuss the blacklist and the changes in wages and hours as a result of the New Deal.

Ernest and Ruby discuss their previous jobs, the union, and other topics. Evelyn and Russell Clary discuss Russell's playing with a band in the mill, unionizing; living in mill villages, and other topics.

Ernest discusses his father, who served as president of a union. He and Ruby discuss attitudes of their family members toward unions. They take Stoney and Helfand on a tour of the old mill village.

Stoney and Helfand play newsreels from the 1934 strike for Evelyn and Russell and ask them what they remember of the events. They discuss a strict mill superintendent, Marshall Dilling, living in mill villages, and other topics.

Rose Slayton only appears at the beginning of this video. Dr. Elliott White tours his childhood home and the mill community, including the downtown Gastonia area, the exterior of three mills in the area (Cannon, Voorhees, and Sidney) and mill housing.

Slayton talks about mill hours and wages, mill management, and the role of women in the textile mill.

Slayton talks about life in the mill village, labor leader Albert Hinson, and labor union activity.

Slayton talks about mill management, labor union organization attempts, and working conditions in the mills.