- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Neil Joroloman and Highland Reunion Interview
- Creator:
- Joroloman, Neil
Weaver, Foots - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-08-14
- Subject:
- Cotton textile industry
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Textile factories
Textile industry--Labor productivity
Textile workers--Labor unions
Textile workers--Labor unions--Organizing
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Stocks
Labor movement
Labor unions - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, 35.75035, -86.25027
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, Standard Knitting Mill - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Foots Weaver was a textile worker and union organizer in Knoxville, Tenn. Homer Coleman was a textile worker and union member in Knoxville, Tenn. Neil Joroloman was the son of a co-founder of the Standard Knitting Mill and a textile mill worker and manager in Knoxville, Tenn.
Weaver and Coleman discuss the national strike in 1934, organizing local strikes, and their dedication to the union. Joroloman discusses his mother's dividends from the Standard Knitting Mill, how the mill distributed its products, and the quality of the material produced by the mill. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0649
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/310
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/40/
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Neil Joroloman and Highland Reunion, interviewed by George Stoney, 14 August 1991. L1995-13_AV0649, The Uprising of '34 Collection, Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University.
Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript. - Extent:
- 00:29:48
- Original Collection:
- Southern Labor Archives
The Uprising of '34 Collection
https://archivesspace.library.gsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/472 - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
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