- Collection:
- Uprising of '34 Collection
- Title:
- Claude Helton and Ernest Moore Interview 1
- Creator:
- Helton, Claude
Moore, Ernest - Contributor to Resource:
- Stoney, George C.
- Date of Original:
- 1990/1999
- Subject:
- Southern States--Economic conditions
Textile factories
Factories--Employees
Strikes and lockouts--Textile industry
Labor unions
Textile industry
Textile workers
Cotton textile industry
Housing
Wages
Unfair labor practices
Blacklisting, Labor
New Deal (1933-1939)
United States. National Recovery Administration - People:
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, North Carolina, 34.92535, -85.26773
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Belmont, Eagle Yarn Mills
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, 35.26208, -81.1873
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, A.M. Smyre Manufacturing Company
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Groves Mill
United States, North Carolina, Gaston County, Gastonia, Ozark Mill - Medium:
- oral histories (document genres)
videotapes - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Claude Helton was a textile worker at the Eagle Mill in East Gastonia, N.C.He was also the secretary of the union local 1312. Ernest Moore was a textile worker at the Eagle Mill in East Gastonia, N.C.
Helton shows Stoney the areas where strikers picketed and where union members lived. Helton and Moore discuss the blacklist and the changes in wages and hours as a result of the New Deal. - Local Identifier:
- L1995-13_AV0285
- Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/uprising/id/50
- 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):
- Claude Helton and Ernest Moore, interviewed by George Stoney, no date. L1995-13_AV0285, 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:
- 00:56:44
- 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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