Oral history interview with Loy Connelly Cloniger, June 18, 1980
Subtitle: interview H-0158, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Tullos, Allen, 1950- interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Street-railroads; Employees; Strikes and lockouts; Labor unions; Violence against
Other titles: Interview H-0158, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Loy Connelly Cloniger, June 18, 1980; Oral histories of the American South.
Description: Former mechanic and streetcar foreman Loy Connelly Cloniger recalls the 1919 Charlotte Streetcar Strike by the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. He was present for a shooting that killed five strikers, though as night foreman, he did not participate in the strike. The strike accomplished nothing: soon after the shooting the strikers returned to work without the raise they demanded. Though perhaps not useful as a source of detailed information about the strike, this interview could be important as an eyewitness account of the 1919 strike and first-hand memories of streetcar work in early 20th-century Charlotte.
Notes: Title from menu page (viewed on June 30, 2008).

Interview participants: Loy Connelly Cloniger, interviewee; Allen Tullos, interviewer.

Duration: 00:33:18.

This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South.  It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series H, Piedmont industrialization, 1974-1980, interview H-0158, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by Jean Houston. Original transcript: 15 p.

Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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