He said, "You're a d— lying s.b." And when he said that, why, he took his
knife and made a whack at him. And the boss weaver was standing there,
and he hit my daddy's arm and knocked the pressure off, but he still cut
his neck open all the way around and missed his windpipe about a half an
inch. Old man Wofford, the boss weaver, fired [my daddy]. He didn't [UNCLEAR] change clothes to go out at noontime for lunch,
so he went and changed clothes and put his work
clothes under his arms and started out the middle door down there. (Big
old mill; the main doors were right in the middle of the mill.) He met
old man Alexander; he was the superintendent of the whole plant. He said
to my daddy, "What's the matter?" He told him, "Mr. Wofford fired me."
He said, "Well, you're not fired. I'm tired of that fellow's way of
doing anyway. You go on back on your job. If old man Wofford comes
around and says anything to you, you tell him I said to come to my
office." So he just went back and put his work clothes on and went on
his job and went to work. Old man Wofford, after a while, come down the
alley. He said, "Huh: I thought I run you out of here." He said, "Mr.
Alexander said for you to come to his office."
[Laughter] He went down there, and so my daddy just went on
his job and went to work. And they fired that fellow my daddy cut and
let my daddy work on. [Laughter]
And then we moved to Brandon, and after my daddy died my brother older
than I am got a. . . . No, we moved to Brandon, and he watched the door.
I told you that. Then we moved to Brandon, and we worked over there a
while, and after my daddy died I was done married. I married in '24. And
my brother moved over here to Dunean. Then I worked at Judson before I
married, [was] working there when I married. I left there and went to
Mills Mill and worked three nights [Laughter]
all night, and then my brother got me a job back at Judson, and
I went back over there, and then I stayed there till I married. And then
I went to Monaghan and stayed part of 1926 and '27, and come back to
Judson and stayed a few months, and moved to Dunean the twenty-first of
March in '28, and I've been here ever since.