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Gastonia (N.C.)

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:

Ernest Moore and E.W. Passmore Interview 1

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0303
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.

Dates: 1987-1995

Ernest Moore and Ruby Moore Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0306
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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.

Dates: 1987-1995

Ernest Moore, E.O. Friday, Charlie Wetzell Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0337
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The interview with Ernest and Ruby Moore shows their square dancing club in action. This lasts until 00:17:40. Friday discusses the history of his church, his wife and mother's work, golf, and other topics. Wetzell, in his interview discusses the military history museum he helps with, the complicated history of relations between mill owners and their employees, his childhood memories, his military history and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Ernest Moore Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0305
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Moore talks about what the mill village and the surrounding business used to look like, a Labor Day parade in Gastonia on the first day of the strike, and strikers' activities.

Dates: 1987-1995

Ernest Moore, Ruby Moore, and E.W. Passmore Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0304
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Passmore and Ernest Moore discuss the pros and cons of unionization. Ernest Moore and Ruby Moore show George Stoney, Jamie Stoney, and Judith Helfand around Gastonia, N.C.

Dates: 1987-1995

Evelyn Clary, Russell Clary, and Bruce Clary Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0308
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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.

Dates: 1987-1995

Fr. George Kloster and Ernest Moore and Ruby Moore Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0336
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The first interview is with Fr. Kloster, who discusses the strike at the J.P. Stevens Company, his faith, and the Freightliner strike, as well as other topics. The interview with Ernest Moore and Ruby Moore, discusses their participation with a local square dance club. While at the square dance, George Stoney, talks to several other unidentified people about their memories of the 1934 textile strike.

Dates: 1987-1995

Fr. George Kloster Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0335
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Fr. Kloster discusses the relationship between his church and the mills, the relationship of the Catholic Church to the unions, the community of Gastonia, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Gardin Family Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0351
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The beginning of this interview is a discussion with the larger Gardin family. Then Gardin and Wilson show George Stoney and the film crew around the area near St. Helen's. During this they discuss their childhoods, and working in various textile mills. There is a second interview with an unidentified couple on this tape that is all audio and no video. This interview discusses the organizing at some of the local mills, like the Loray, Rex Mill and Priscilla Mill as well as other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Henry Queen and Florine Queen Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0045
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Henry Queen and Florine Queen discuss life on the mill village, union organizing, conditions in the textile mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Jake Gray and Charlie Wetzel Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0400
Abstract

Gray discusses his family, the mills they owned, mill villages, and the textile workers' strike of 1934. Wetzel discusses his childhood, his work in the textile mills, his family's history in the textile industry, mill villages and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Jake Gray and Esther Gray Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0720
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Jake Gray discusses the state of the textile industry in the 1920s and 1930s, the paternalism of mill owners, brown lung, working conditions in the mill, the textile workers' strike of 1934 and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Jake Gray and Esther Gray Interview 2

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0399
Abstract

Jake Gray and Esther Gray watch a newsreel and discuss the textile workers' strike of 1934, their memories of Gastonia, and their memories of labor organization.

Dates: 1987-1995

Joe Lineberger and Mrs. Lineberger Interview

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0318
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Lineberger talks about his role as a mill manufacturer, his relationship with the mill workers, his father A.C. Lineberger, and changes that were brought about as a result of the New Deal. Mrs. Lineberger talks about workers still living and working in the community.

Dates: 1987-1995

Joe Lineberger and Mrs. Lineberger Interview 1

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0317
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Lineberger talks about his time as mill owner, his father, who was also a mill owner, relationships between management and labor, mill housing, the 1932 election and other topics. Lineberger discusses the Chronicle Mill, the Majestic Manufacturing Company, Imperial Yarn Mills, National Yarn Mill, Acme Mills, Linford -Stowe Spinning, Perfection Mill, Eagle Mill, Climax Mill and National Crescent Mill.

Dates: 1987-1995

Judith Helfand and George Stoney Interview 2

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0118b
Abstract

Stoney and Helfand discuss concerns they had while filming The Uprising of '34, how Judith, as a non-Southerner, was able to get people to open up, Judith's concerns about traveling in the South, how they worked with various institutions to find interview subjects, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

LeGette Blythe and Charles M. Ward Interviews

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0348
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Blythe discusses his time at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, his work as a journalist and other topics. Ward discusses the local churches attached to the Firestone Mill, his father's work at the Firestone Mill in Gastonia, N.C., the Golden Rule Association, and growing up in the Firestone Mill village.

Dates: 1987-1995

Lucille Thornburgh Interview 1, 15 August 1991

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0458
Abstract

Thornburgh discusses the National Recovery Act (NRA), her organizing work at Cherokee Mills, the impact of the Wagner Act, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 1929 strike at Loray Mills in Gastonia, N.C., and blacklisting. The last 10 minutes of the video consist of shots of various mills around Knoxville.

Dates: 15 August 1991

Lucille Thornburgh Interview 11

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0026
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Thornburgh discusses working at the Cherokee Spinning Mill, the impact that being union had on her, organizing the local union, the impact of the National Recover Act, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995

Mary A. Wright and L.C. Wright Interview 2

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Identifier: L1995-13_AV0334
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Wright talks about union organizing in the 1970s, his family, concerns about economic conditions, and other topics.

Dates: 1987-1995