Ernest Moore and E.W. Passmore Interview 1

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0303

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Ernest Moore and E.W. Passmore Interview 1

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Scope and Contents of the Collection

From the Collection:

The Uprising of '34 Collection demonstrates how communities can be impacted in contemporary ways by history and memory, decades after a series of events occur. Veterans of the events of 1934 and their descendants-black, white, mill worker, manager, union, and non-union- were interviewed about mill village life, work conditions, southern contemporaneous culture as well as the strike itself. This finding aid describes the digitized oral history-style interviews available in Georiga State University Library's Digital Collections.

Dates

Creation: 1987-1995

Creator

From the Collection: Stoney, George C. (Person)
From the Collection: Helfand, Judith (Person)

Restrictions on Access

All of the interviews are available online in GSU's Digital Collections.

Biographical Note

Ernest Moore was a textile worker at the Eagle Mill in East Gastonia, N.C. E.W. "Bob" Passmore was an employee with the Firestone Mill, previously known as the Loray Mill. Passmore's parents told him stories about the strikes of '29 and '34.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (57:51 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

Moore discusses efforts made by the Communist Party to organize in the South. The Loray Mill strike of 1929 is described by Moore, including the murder of Orville Aderholt, police chief of Gastonia, N.C. Moore talks about the end of the American Textile Union in the aftermath of the '29 strike and subsequent murder trials and increased distrust of unions. The interview is supplemented with information from E.W. "Bob" Passmore.