The mill's acceptance of a shorter workday led to worker support
The mill obeyed the new eight-hour day labor law, which dramatically altered a worker's day. As a result, the mill had little union activity.
Citing this Excerpt
Oral History Interview with Ethel Marshall Faucette, November 16, 1978, and January 4, 1979. Interview H-0020. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- ALLEN TULLOS:
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They went right along with the law, and they didn't-here, the people who were running the mill.
- ETHEL MARSHALL FAUCETTE:
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Yeah.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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What did they think about it.
- ETHEL MARSHALL FAUCETTE:
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Well, they didn't say a word about it, not here they didn't. And other places that I know of they didn't. Everybody was glad of it. See, this mill has never been union.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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Never.
- ETHEL MARSHALL FAUCETTE:
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No, we never had no union.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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Well, did anybody ever try to start a union here?
- ETHEL MARSHALL FAUCETTE:
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Yes, they tried several times, but I don't remember what they done about it. They never done nothing about it because they never did get it. Nobody wouldn't vote for the union.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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They tried several times.
- ETHEL MARSHALL FAUCETTE:
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Yes. But they never did get it.
- ALLEN TULLOS:
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Did they try it while your father was superintendent.
- ETHEL MARSHALL FAUCETTE:
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Yeah. Now, he'd of paid a bit more attention to it, he would of-dog barking. (George laughing in background)
