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Interview no. | H-0158 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | H.5. Piedmont Industrialization, 1974-1980: Charlotte, N.C. |
Project description | Interviews, 1979-1980, about industrialization in Charlotte, N.C. Interviews focus on mill village neighborhoods of north Charlotte with most of the interviewees having worked in the cotton or hosiery industries. Topics include jobs in the mills, work conditions, child labor, work discipline, changing technology, speed ups, efficiency experts, the impact of the Depression and World War II, unionization and strikes, paternalism, company stores, relations between textile workers and other Charlotte residents, and general mill village and family life. A few of the interviewees are with transportation workers and business leaders and executives. Interviews were chiefly conducted as part of the "Perspectives on Industrialization: The Piedmont Crescent of Industry, 1900-1940" project. |
Date | 18 June 1980 |
Interviewee | Cloniger, Loy Connelly, b. 1893. |
Interviewee occupation | Mechanics |
Interviewee DOB | 1893 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Tullos, Allen, 1950- |
Abstract | Former mechanic and streetcar foreman Loy Connelly Cloniger recalls the 1919 Charlotte Streetcar Strike by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He was present for a shooting that killed five strikers, though as night foreman, he did not participate in the strike. The strike accomplished nothing: soon after the shooting the strikers returned to work without the raise they demanded. Though perhaps not useful as a source of detailed information about the strike, this interview could be important as an eyewitness account of the 1919 strike and first-hand memories of streetcar work in early 20th-century Charlotte. |
Citation | Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | H0158_Audio |