Jacobs, Joseph, 1908-

Scope and Contents Interviewed by Cliff Kuhn. Among topics discussed: Family background; parents background in Poland; emigration to Patterson, N.J.; subsequent migration to Birmingham; father's employment at ACIPCO; family name change from Yuskowitz to Jacobs; father's butcher business; Workmen's Circle; Hebrew school; move to New York in Jacobs' junior year of high school; father's union activity; recruitment of blacks in Birmingham to work in West Virginia mines as strikebreakers; the Morris Schwartz...

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Jacobs, Wade, Don Rodgers and Angie Rodgers discuss United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) activity after the textile workers' strike 1934, how the union did not leave various Southern towns,and the legal struggles that the UTWA faced.

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Jacobs, Wade, Don Rodgers and Angie Rodgers discuss United Textile Workers of America (UTWA) activity after the textile workers' strike of 1934, how the union did not leave various Southern towns, and the legal struggles that the UTWA faced.

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Thornburgh, Taylor and Childs discuss some of the songs sung in Knoxville, Tenn. during the textile workers' strike of 1934, the significance of the history of the strike, why the strike has been forgotten, the echos of the strike that Taylor and Childs have found in their own organizing work, and looking at the strike as a worker led movement. Jacobs discusses dealing with union members problems after the textile workers' strike of 1934.