Guthrie, Murray: Video interview

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Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Name/Title

Guthrie, Murray: Video interview

Entry/Object ID

2021.08.09

Scope and Content

VIDEO INTERVIEW Interviewer: Kathy Priddle Interview Date: June 14, 2014 Murray told a story of how the mill paid for his father’s mortgage, in the house Murray lives in now. Hisfather and brothers worked at the mill as well. Murray started after finishing at the air force post World War 2. He went over how the wool was processed through which machines. He worked in the finishing department and later learned how to spin the wool. He described the building layout and what jobs occurred where. Went over the carding room, the spinning mule and the raw yarn that filled the bobbins, as well as the noisy spinning machine and looms. He described machine maintenance that was done, oiling the machines and cleaning them. Murray did not work on the dye floor but talked about how you needed to be skilled there and how the leftover dye would be dumped in the river. There was an elevator lift that transported the bales of wool and whatever was spun to different floors of the mill. During his time, the mill was coal-operated for firing the boilers and there was a bell that would toll to say when work would start. Women would mainly work in the worsted room and some were weavers. He talked of union issues at the mill. Murray enjoyed process of working with machinery, “satisfaction in producing something reasonably perfect” Video recording available. Interviewer: Kathy Priddle Conducted June 14, 2013?

Collection

Mill Workers Memory Project

Cataloged By

Natalia Pochtaruk

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Rosamond mill, World War 2, Second World War, finishing department, spinning wool, carding room, spinning mule, spinning machine, machine maintenance, dye floor, boilers, shift work, worsted room, weavers, union, wartime, steam, steam power, school, airforce, coal, 1940s, war, spinning, loom, wool, kathy priddle, 2013

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Object Name

Guthrie, Murray: Video interview

Archive Details

Creator

MVTM

Location

Location

Building

Library

Category

Permanent

Date

November 7, 2023

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Related Person or Organization

Person or Organization

Guthrie, Murray

Person or Organization

Priddle, Kathy

General Notes

Note

Status By: Cameron Hill

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[email protected]

Create Date

August 5, 2021

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Update Date

November 12, 2023