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Jake Gray and Charlie Wetzel Interviews

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Full screen version	http://webapps.library.gsu.edu/ohms-viewer/viewer.php?cachefile=L1995-13_AV0400.xml
Access note	Click the blue timestamps in the transcript above to navigate to any point in the video and transcript.
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.