Kannapolis (N.C.)
Found in 43 Collections and/or Records:
Fieldcrest Cannon Workers Interview
This video features unidentified pro-union workers from the Fieldcrest Cannon plant in Kannapolis, N.C. The workers discuss why the union is important them, their feelings about the lost union election, their concerns returning to work after the election, and various grievances that they have with the company.
Honeycutt Family and J.K. Rouse Interviews, 22 August 1991
The Honeycutt family discusses the 1991 unionization campaign at Cannon Mills. Rouse discusses how he came to Kannapolis, his education, his work at the YMCA, the relationship between the Cannon family and the Kannapolis YMCA, the National Recovery Act, and other topics.
Honeycutt Family Interview 1, 22 August 1991
The Honeycutt family discusses how working at Cannon Mills has changed over the years, the differences in the current union organizing campaign differs from the one in the 1930s, and other topics.
Honeycutt Family Interview 2, 21 August 1991
The Honeycutt family discusses the current perceptions of the union in regard to the 1991 union campaign, the shift in ownership in the mills from local ownership to absentee owners, how work in the mills has changed over the years and other topics.
J. G. (Wingate) Krause and Cynthia Haynes Interview, 23 August 1991
Krause discusses his memories of Charles Cannon and his years working at the Cannon Mill as well as African Americans at the mill and integration efforts. Haynes discusses her involvement in union organizing, working at the Cannon Mill, strikes, and the negative public opinion of union efforts.
J.G. Krause and Wingate Interview, 23 August 1991
J.G. Krause and Wingate discuss the Cannon Mill and Wingate's duties as a National Guardsman during union strikes in 1934 and 1935.
Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 7, 28 December 1991
Jacobs, Thornburgh and the union organizers discuss racism and gender discrimination in the mills, the ways in which the union helped to fight the above, and other topics.
Joe Jacobs, Lucille Thornburgh, and Union Organizers Interview 8, 28 December 1991
Jacobs, Thornburgh, and union organizers discuss the shame associated with the strike, feelings of shame associated with being a textile worker, racism and segregation, and other topics.
L. Boyd Deal Interview
Deal discusses labor abuses at Fieldcrest-Cannon, and his role as an organizer of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union.
Laurie Rushmeyer, L. Boyd Deal and Others Interviews
Rushmeyer discusses her work as an organizer, current conditions in the Fieldcrest Cannon plant, tactics used by Fieldcrest Cannon to keep the union out and other topics. Deal, Rushmeyer, Mary, Peggy, and Cynthia discuss the local perceptions of the union, conditions in the Fieldcrest Cannon plant, the Civil Rights movement, relationships between the mill ownership and the town of Kannapolis, the recent union campaign, and other topics.
Linda Stout, Susan Plyler, and Connie Leaper Interview
Plyler, Stout, and Leaper discuss working in the textile mill, their reactions to learning about the textile workers' strike of 1934, the education system, and other topics.
Lucille Thornburgh and Cannon Mills Textile Workers Interview, 28 December 1991
The textile workers in this video were working to unionize Cannon Mills in 1991. The workers read letters written by various participants of the 1934 strike and react to their contents. Thornburgh discusses her involvement with the textile workers' strike of 1934, the letters she wrote to Washington, D.C., and how the strike has impacted her life.
Lucille Thornburgh, Roy Wade, Don Rodgers and Connie Leper Interview, 29 December 1991
Thornburgh, Wade, Rodgers, and Leper discuss how companies use footage of the textile workers' strike of 1934 as a way to convince employees not join the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU), also discussed is the issue of race and union organizing.
Mary A. Wright and L.C. Wright Interview 1
Wright talks about union organizing in the 1970s, retirement benefits, labor laws, and the tactics which mills used to keep their workforce from organzing.
Mary A. Wright and L.C. Wright Interview 2
Wright talks about union organizing in the 1970s, his family, concerns about economic conditions, and other topics.
Pauline Pearson Interview
Haynes discusses working in the textile mill with an unidentified woman. Pearson discusses her uncle Red Lisk, a union organizer during the 1934 union organizing drive, working in the textile mill, and her opinions on union organizing.
Plant 6 Women
Haynes and other women from the Fieldcrest Cannon plant 6 discuss working conditions in the plant, the contested union election, the state of industry in Kannapolis, and other topics. Haynes and another woman named Hazel discuss working in the cotton mills and related health issues, including brown lung.
Retirees and Workers and Union Hall Election Night, 21 August 1991
Wright and several other retirees discuss there involvement in the current drive to organize a union at Fieldcrest Cannon. The second half of this video consists of George Stoney and Judith Helfand talking with union organizers. They discuss the issues that they have had with the company as organizers, the lack of knowledge around the textile workers' strike of 1934, and the support they have received during the current union organizing drive.
Susan Plyler and Blanton Smith Interviews
Plyler discusses discovering the history of the textile workers' strike of 1934, the impact that it had on her, ideas of working class history, and how history is constructed. Smith discusses moving to Kannapolis from Anderson, S.C., the textile workers' strike of 1934, riding the rails, the bonus army and why he went into the army.
Susan Plyler Interview 1, 21 August 1991
Plyler discusses growing up in the textile mill village, the relationship between the mill owner and the mill workers, learning about the textile workers' striker of 1934, how Kannapolis dealt with the pain of the strike, and her work with the Piedmont Peace Project.