Knoxville (Tenn.)
Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:
AFL-CIO Region 8 (Knoxville, Tenn.) and Region 5 records
AFL-CIO Region 8 records
AFL-CIO Region 8 records, 1930-1974, include correspondence, minutes, reports, legal papers, conference materials, membership cards, and printed materials. The collection pertains to the career of long time labor organizer and Region 8 Director, Paul R. Christopher (1910-1974).
AFL-CIO Region 8 records
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union contracts collection
The collection consists of 16 agreements, 1977-1981, between various local unions of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union and manufacturers.
Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Tennessee Joint Board records
American Federation of Government Employees, Local 136 (Knoxville, Tenn.) records
American Federation of Hosiery Workers contracts collection
The collection consists of 6 agreements, 1946-1959, between various local unions of the American Federation of Hosiery Workers and manufacturers.
Foots Weaver, C.R. Weaver, and Sue Dunlap Interview, 13 August 1991
Foots Weaver discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, and union organizing. Foots Weaver, C.R. Weaver, and Sue Dunlap discuss Foots Weaver's involvement in the United Textile Workers of America, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and the impact that Foots Weaver's organizing past has had on C.R. Weaver and Sue Dunlap.
Foots Weaver Interview, 13 August 1991
Weaver discusses union organization, the NRA, the textile workers strike of 1934, Franklin Roosevelt the aftermath of the strike, and other topics.
Foots Weaver Interview 2
Weaver discusses work at the Cherokee Spinning Company, his union organizing, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blacklisted and other topics.
Foots Weaver, Lucille Thornburgh, and Homer Logsdon Interview, 13 August 1991
Thornburgh, Weaver, and Logsdon discuss the textile worker's strike of 1834, organizing a union at their mill, the working conditions of the mill and other topics.
Fred Turner Interview 1, 12 August 1991
Turner discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, and the impact of that strike.
Fred Turner Interview 2, 12 August 1991
Turner discusses the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blackballed and working in the textile mills.
Fred Turner Interview 3, 12 August 1991
Turner discusses the NRA, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blacklisted, mill villages, the aftermath of the strike and other topics.
Grady and Hazel Cole papers
Highland Reunion Interview 1, 14 August 1991
Thornburgh, Weaver, and Coleman discuss union organizing efforts, striking, picket lines, anit-union efforts, communism, and their leadership roles.
Highland Reunion Interview 2, 13 August 1991
Thornburgh, Weaver, and Coleman discuss their first union strike and lockout. Thornburgh describes being blacklisted and the role of newspapers in spreading word about the union.
Homer Logsdon and Foots Weaver Interviews, 13 August 1991
Lodgson discusses working in a textile mill, blacklisting, his post textile career, and the current state of the textile industry. Weaver discuss his career as textile worker, the textile workers' strike of 1934, and organizing the union.
Homer Logsdon Interview, 13 August 1991
Logsdon discusses working at Cherokee Mills, the impact of the National Recovery Act, the textile workers' strike of 1934, being blacklisted, Foots Weaver and Lucille Thornburgh.
Homer Logsdon Interview 2
Homer Logsdon discusses working as a weaver at Cherokee Spinning Company in Knoxville, Tenn., helping to organize a union at Cherokee, the textile workers's strike of 1934, the aftermath of the strike, people who were blacklisted, his work after he left the textile industry and other topics. Thelma Blanton Logsdon discusses growing up in the mill village at Kramerton, N.C., going to work at a textile mill and other topics.