- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Jake Gray and Charlie Wetzel Interviews
- Creator:
- Gray, Jake
Wetzel, Charlie - Contributor to Resource:
- Helfand, Judith, 1964-
Stoney, George C. - Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Textile manufacturers
Textile Workers' Strike (Southern States : 1934)
Textile industry
Great Depression
Textile workers
Wages
Textile workers--Labor unions
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry - Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873 - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
interviews - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Jake Gray was a mill owner in Gastonia, N.C. Charlie Wetzel was a textile manager and yarn salesman at the Stowe Mill in Belmont, N.C., and later worked for either a historical society or historic site in Gastonia, N.C.
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. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0400
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/468
- Language:
- eng
- 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):
- Jake Gray and Charlie Wetzel, interviewed by Judith Helfand and George Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0400, 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:
- 00:52:45
- 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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