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Title |
Jake Gray and Charlie Wetzel Interviews |
Identifier |
L1995-13_AV0400 |
Decade |
1990s |
Interviewee |
Gray, Jake Wetzel, Charlie |
Interviewer |
Helfand, Judith, 1964- Stoney, George C. |
Abstract |
Gray discusses his family, the mills they owned, mill villages, and the textile workers' strike of 1934. |
Abstract 2 |
Wetzel discusses his childhood, his work in the textile mills, his family's history in the textile industry, mill villages and other topics. |
Biographical note |
Jake Gray was a mill owner in Gastonia, N.C. |
Biographical note 2 |
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. |
Language |
English |
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 |
Locations depicted |
North Carolina Gastonia (N.C.) |
Running time |
00:52:45 |
Collection |
The Uprising of '34 Collection |
Curatorial area |
Southern Labor Archives |
Digital Publisher |
Georgia State University Library |
Finding aid |
http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/findingaids/id/1223 |
Rights |
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/ |
Citation |
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. |
Source format |
oral histories (document genres) interviews |
Format |
audio/mpeg |
Type |
Sound |
Funding note |
Digitization of the Uprising of '34 Collection was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. |