Cannon Mills and Kannapolis: Persistent Paternalism in a Textile Town

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index Adams, A. B., 191 Adams, John, 181 Adams, Sherman, 148 Adkins, Oscar F., 75 Aderholt, O. F., 75 American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), 204 Agricultural Act of 1956, 150 Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933, 92,148, 149, 153, 159 Agriculture Act of 1964, 167 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 (PL 480), 149, 150, 162, 165 Alabama, and General Strike of 1934, 93 A. L. Brown (High) School, 29 Alexander, Kelly, 177 Alcoa Aluminum, 124 Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Unions, and Kannapolis, 191–92, 197, 202; merger to create UNITE, 203 Amazon Mill, 66, 71, 109, 110, 124, 138 American Cotton Manufacturers Association , 67, 99 American Cotton Manufacturers Institute, 144, 147, 154; and Charles Cannon, 149–50, 152, 164; Special Cotton Policy Committee and Charles Cannon, 151–53, 165 American Enka Company, 136 American Federation of Labor, and child labor, 39 Anderson, Cynthia, 83 Andrews, Elmer, 99 Anderson, William D., 96, 99 Arkwright Club, 67 Asheville, NC, 86, 136 Associated Press, 93 Association of Cotton-Textile Merchants, 103 Atlantic American Properties, 198 Avondale Mills, 68, 148, 163 Aycock, Charles B., 38 Bacon, Joseph, 9 Badin, NC, 124 Baldanzi, George, 123,132, 133, 136, 139 Barber-Coleman Company, 63 Barnhard, John J., 70 Barringer Manufacturing Company, 56, 59 Batte, George, Jr., 146 Beaver, Ray, 193 Bell, W Ray, 103 Benson, Ezra Taft, 148–52, 154 Benton, AL, 168 Bessemer City, NC, 75 Bethel A. M. E. Zion Church, 26, 28 Bethel Community (Kannapolis), 26 Bethpage United Presbyterian Church (Kannapolis), 28 Bibb Manufacturing Company, 68, 186 Bittner, Van A., 123, 132, 139 Black, Mary, 178 Blackwell, Kate, 199 Blaine, Nancy, 125, 127 Blair, David, 60 Blair, Ms. David, 74 Bob Park’s Barbershop (Kannapolis), 26 Bogle, Carrie, 44 Bostian, W. E., 15 274 @ Index Boston, 7, 13 Boyle, J. J., 70 brand loyalty, 14, 69, 76, 107, 122 Brandes, Stuart, 79, 140 Brazil, 24 Broad, Molly, 209 Broome and Wellington, 206 Brown, A. Luther, 70 Brown, Bachman, 197, 203 Brown v. Board of Education, 175 Brown, Eural, 181 Brown Manufacturing Company, 145 Bruere Board, 93, 96, 98 Bruere, Robert, 93 Buck Creek Cotton Mill, 50 Buncombe County, NC, 86 Bureau of the Census, 164 Bureau of Internal Revenue, 85, 86 Bureau of Labor, 38, 130 Burlington Industries (Burlington Mills), 170, 177, 179, 180, 186, 194 Cabarrus Cotton Mills, 11, 56, 66, 71 Cabarrus County Board of Commissioners, 16 Cabarrus County Board of Education, 28 Cabarrus County Department of Social Services, 207 Cabarrus County Tuberculosis Association, 80 Cabarrus Memorial Hospital, 173, 207 Caldwell, Ida Mae, 178 Calloway, Fuller, 43 Camp Elliot, 82 Campbell, Jay, 182 Cannapolis, 16 Cannon, Charles Albert, —advertising, 69, 87, 108, 119, 102 —General Strike of 1934, 94, 98 —imports, 146-48, 163-65 —New York Stock Exchange, 159, 160 —paternalism, 57, 76, 84, 96, 128, 129, 131, 136, 139, 141, 166, 182, 196 —unions, 57, 75, 124, 126, 131, 141 —two priced cotton, 150, 159, 164, 168 —welfare work, 79–82, 84 Cannon, Charles Albert, Jr., 111 Cannon, Corine Lythe, 176 Cannon, David, 5–7, 11–13 Cannon, Eliza Long, 4 Cannon, Eugene Thomas, 66, 74, 113 Cannon, James William, 5, 21; advertising, 69; paternalism, 6–8; welfare work, 79 Cannon, James William, Jr., 13, 40, 60, 61 Cannon, Joseph Franklin, 40, 66, 74; dispute with J. W. Cannon (father), 228n6; drinking problem, 227n7 Cannon, J. Harry, 114, 134 Cannon, Junius Ross, 61, 66, 74 Cannon, Katie Geneva, 31; claimed that her family had been slaves to the Cannon family, 223n32 Cannon, Martin Luther, 42, 61, 66, 74, 95, 113, 146 Cannon, Mary Ella, 6, 60, 61 Cannon, William C., 113, 160, 190 Cannon Cloth, 10, 11, 14 Cannon Foundation, 207 Cannon Group, 53, 60, 69, 72; profits in the 1920s, 73; welfare work, 84 Cannon Manufacturing Company, and Cannon Cloth, 10; donation of land for black school, 28; family control of, 60; John Odell president, 12; Knights of Labor, 9; organized, 7; trademark, 69; welfare work, 79–80 Cannon Mills, 40 —advertising during WWII, 105 —consolidation to create, 69 —demolition of smoke stacks, 210 —General Strike of 1934, 94 —laws suits for racial discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 177, 179 —loyalty banquets, 83 —plant designations, 71 —sale of mill houses, 196 —target of Operation Dixie, 124 —three stages of management, xiv —United States v. Cannon Mills, 181 —union vote of 1974, 189; of 1985, 197 —vertical integration, 70 Cannon Mills Band, 44 Cannon Mills, Inc...