Charlotte (N.C.)

Abstract: In 1955 when the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) merged, it created AFL-CIO Region 8 encompassing Tennessee and Kentucky with Paul Christopher as Director. North and South Carolina became part of Region 5 directed by Carey Haigler. The 1964 reorganization of the AFL-CIO placed Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina in Region 8 with Christopher as Director and Haigler as Assistant Director. After Christopher's death in 1974, Region...

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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.

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M.L. Brackett describes the 1934 strike at Highland Park Mill in Charlotte, N.C., mill village life, and union organization.

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The Records of the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU), 1970-1976, consist primarily of material concerning the Union's attempts to organize office workers on the local level in the southeastern United States.

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Newell and Smith discuss how their father helped to feed strikers, working conditions in the textile mill, life in the mill village, their childhoods, and their uncle Harold Payne who was the president of the union local.

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Newell and Smith discuss their careers in the textile and hosiery mills around Charlotte, N.C., growing up in the mill village, their father helping to feed strikers, and other topics.

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Newell and an unidentified woman discuss the textile workers's strike of 1934, living in a mill village, union organizing, and other topics.