Helton, Claude
Description
Claude and Mabel Helton talk about working conditions in the mills, the treatment of women textile workers, and the introduction of African American textile workers in the mills. Stoney also shows them footage of pickets in Gastonia, N.C. and New England.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.Mabel Helton was a textile worker at the Parkdale Mill in Gastonia, N.C.
Video
Helton, MabelStoney, George CHelfand, Judith, 1964
Record Contributed By
Georgia State UniversityRecord Harvested From
Digital Library of GeorgiaKeywords
- African Americans
- Blacklisting, Labor
- Cotton Textile Industry
- Eagle Yarn Mills (Belmont, N.C.)
- Employees
- Employment
- Factories
- Groves Mill (Gastonia, N.C.)
- Housing
- Industrial Engineering
- Labor Unions
- Organizing
- Parkdale Mill (Gastonia, N.C.)
- Strikes And Lockouts
- Textile Factories
- Textile Industry
- Textile Workers
- Unfair Labor Practices
- United States
- United States. National Recovery Administration
- Wages
- Women
- Women Textile Workers
