Union Election Night and L.C. Wright Interview, 21 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0532

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Union Election Night and L.C. Wright Interview

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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: 21 August 1991

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

L.C. Wright was a loom fixer at the Fieldcrest Cannon Mill in Kannapolis, N.C.

Extent

1 item(s) (video (29:38 duration))

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

Abstract

The first ten minutes of the this video is of a meeting of the members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union as they prepare to go count votes in a union election. The next 19 minutes are of an interview with L.C. Wright and two unidentified interviewees. They are all retired and discuss how the loss of their pensions got them invovled in the current union drive. Wright discusses his invovlement with an attempt to unionize in the 1970s. All three discuss the paternalism of the mill town and their hopes for this next generation of textile workers.