Title
Threads Group (ACTWU)
Tape # 13 & 13A Threads Group - ( ACTWU)
Occupation: Textile Workers
Ethnic Background: Italian
Interviewer: Susan Benson & Clarisse Poirier, PhD.
Comments: All of the interviewees were over 65 years old. Group interview - working in Lawrence from 1930s on. Interaction of different ethnic groups in the mills, unionization. Working conditions, living in boarding houses, fears of unions, life during Depression, female workers had to put up with "Lothario's roving hands".
ICA ACC# 79.65.13 is written at the top of this card. Tape #13 is one side only.
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Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
https://lawrencehistory.org/files/audio/oh/2007.500.528-tgroup.mp3
Date (created)
1979-06-04