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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:34,543 --> 00:00:39,549 Ain't no miracle bein' born 2 00:00:39,631 --> 00:00:46,560 People doin' it every day 3 00:00:46,638 --> 00:00:52,816 Ain't no miracle growin' up 4 00:00:52,894 --> 00:00:58,572 People just grow that way 5 00:00:58,650 --> 00:01:01,574 So it goes like it goes 6 00:01:01,653 --> 00:01:04,327 Like the river flows 7 00:01:04,406 --> 00:01:10,084 And time, it rolls right on 8 00:01:10,162 --> 00:01:13,086 And maybe what's good 9 00:01:13,165 --> 00:01:17,090 Gets a little bit better 10 00:01:17,169 --> 00:01:24,098 And maybe what's bad gets gone 11 00:01:31,600 --> 00:01:36,106 Bless the child of a workin' man 12 00:01:36,188 --> 00:01:42,161 She knows too soon who she is 13 00:01:43,445 --> 00:01:48,121 And bless the hands of a workin' man 14 00:01:48,200 --> 00:01:53,798 He knows his soul is his 15 00:01:53,872 --> 00:01:56,625 So it goes like it goes 16 00:01:56,708 --> 00:01:59,712 Like the river flows 17 00:01:59,794 --> 00:02:04,891 And time, it rolls right on 18 00:02:04,966 --> 00:02:07,890 And maybe what's good 19 00:02:07,969 --> 00:02:13,066 Gets a little bit better 20 00:02:15,894 --> 00:02:19,489 And maybe what's bad gets gone 21 00:02:26,738 --> 00:02:29,537 Yeah, it goes like it goes 22 00:02:29,616 --> 00:02:32,415 Like the river flows 23 00:02:32,494 --> 00:02:38,797 And time keeps rollin' on 24 00:02:38,875 --> 00:02:43,005 And maybe what's good 25 00:02:43,088 --> 00:02:49,016 Gets a little bit better 26 00:02:49,094 --> 00:02:54,942 And maybe what's bad 27 00:02:55,016 --> 00:03:01,991 Gets gone 28 00:04:24,189 --> 00:04:27,409 That's all you're eating for lunch? An apple? 29 00:04:27,484 --> 00:04:29,031 I'm dieting. 30 00:04:29,944 --> 00:04:32,447 I got to keep my strength up. 31 00:04:32,530 --> 00:04:35,625 I put these preserves up myself. 32 00:04:35,700 --> 00:04:39,455 Sunday, Russell and I put up over 60 quarts of peaches. 33 00:04:41,289 --> 00:04:44,338 What did you do over the weekend, Norma? 34 00:04:44,417 --> 00:04:46,340 I soaked my feet. 35 00:04:48,213 --> 00:04:50,511 I saw you in town Sunday. 36 00:04:51,716 --> 00:04:54,720 Your friend drives a mighty big car. 37 00:04:54,803 --> 00:04:59,730 If you'd looked on the motel register, you'd seen my name, too. 38 00:04:59,808 --> 00:05:02,231 It's none of my business. 39 00:05:06,106 --> 00:05:09,360 Mama, you haven't opened up your sack yet. 40 00:05:11,319 --> 00:05:14,163 Mama, aren't you hungry? 41 00:05:14,239 --> 00:05:15,661 Mama? 42 00:05:18,243 --> 00:05:20,917 Mama, you feeling all right? 43 00:05:23,748 --> 00:05:25,170 Mama? 44 00:05:25,250 --> 00:05:27,673 Mama, can you hear me? 45 00:05:27,752 --> 00:05:28,878 Mama? 46 00:05:29,879 --> 00:05:31,506 Mama! 47 00:05:31,589 --> 00:05:33,557 Mama, come on. Come on. 48 00:05:45,979 --> 00:05:49,449 She didn't hear one word I said! 49 00:05:49,524 --> 00:05:52,152 You know that happens. 50 00:05:52,235 --> 00:05:55,409 Well, it doesn't happen to my mama! 51 00:05:55,488 --> 00:05:57,490 It'll pass off. It's just temporary. 52 00:05:57,574 --> 00:05:59,542 That makes it OK! 53 00:06:01,244 --> 00:06:03,121 She's only deaf all day! 54 00:06:03,204 --> 00:06:04,626 She can get another job. 55 00:06:04,706 --> 00:06:07,630 What other job in this town? 56 00:06:08,710 --> 00:06:10,178 I'll give her a note. 57 00:06:10,253 --> 00:06:11,971 They'll send her home. 58 00:06:12,046 --> 00:06:14,174 Come on, Mama. 59 00:06:14,257 --> 00:06:16,555 They don't care anything about you. 60 00:06:33,401 --> 00:06:34,994 You all right out there? 61 00:06:35,069 --> 00:06:36,412 I'm fine. 62 00:06:37,572 --> 00:06:39,700 You're going to get all bitten up. 63 00:06:39,782 --> 00:06:42,661 I'll be in. Just a minute. 64 00:06:49,417 --> 00:06:51,010 Well... 65 00:06:53,046 --> 00:06:56,050 I'm going to let this pot soak. 66 00:06:56,132 --> 00:06:59,011 There's one soaking from breakfast. 67 00:06:59,093 --> 00:07:01,016 Now it's got company. 68 00:07:04,432 --> 00:07:06,651 Hey, you kids. 69 00:07:06,726 --> 00:07:09,524 10 more minutes of this junk, then do your homework. 70 00:07:09,604 --> 00:07:11,572 I did it. 71 00:07:12,565 --> 00:07:15,409 Unsatisfactory in lettering and reading, 72 00:07:15,485 --> 00:07:17,203 and your numbers aren't too good. 73 00:07:17,278 --> 00:07:19,656 You haven't done much homework. 74 00:07:19,739 --> 00:07:22,413 - Shh! - Shush! I'll shush you. 75 00:07:36,631 --> 00:07:39,134 What are you getting fixed up for? 76 00:07:39,217 --> 00:07:41,060 I'm going into town. 77 00:07:41,135 --> 00:07:43,263 What do you need in town? 78 00:07:43,346 --> 00:07:44,768 Things. 79 00:07:44,847 --> 00:07:47,145 OK. I'll drive you in. 80 00:07:47,892 --> 00:07:49,769 You got Bonanza on next. 81 00:07:49,852 --> 00:07:53,823 I'll miss that. It's the same every week. 82 00:07:55,316 --> 00:07:56,568 I'm going to J.C. Penney's, 83 00:07:56,651 --> 00:08:01,407 buy myself some panties and a white cotton brassiere, size 32-B. 84 00:08:01,489 --> 00:08:04,538 If you want to sit outside the dressing room 85 00:08:04,617 --> 00:08:06,790 and have the ladies look at you, then come on. 86 00:08:06,869 --> 00:08:08,371 No, ma'am. 87 00:08:10,206 --> 00:08:12,004 You coming straight back? 88 00:08:12,083 --> 00:08:13,426 No. 89 00:08:13,501 --> 00:08:14,753 I'm going to the drugstore, 90 00:08:14,836 --> 00:08:19,091 buy myself some Kotex pads and a Cosmopolitan magazine. 91 00:08:19,173 --> 00:08:22,177 Mm-hmm. Then you coming home? 92 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:26,390 Yeah. I'll be so tired from all the excitement, 93 00:08:26,472 --> 00:08:28,395 I'll be coming home. 94 00:08:35,857 --> 00:08:37,074 Hi. 95 00:08:38,109 --> 00:08:39,110 Mr. Witchard? 96 00:08:40,695 --> 00:08:42,288 That's right. Vernon Witchard. 97 00:08:42,363 --> 00:08:43,455 Who are you? 98 00:08:43,531 --> 00:08:45,204 My name is Reuben Warshovsky. 99 00:08:45,283 --> 00:08:48,036 Warshovsky. What kind of name is that? 100 00:08:48,953 --> 00:08:53,129 The kind you have to spell for telephone operators and headwaiters. 101 00:08:53,207 --> 00:08:55,175 What do you want? 102 00:08:55,251 --> 00:08:57,879 I'd like a room with a mill family. 103 00:08:57,962 --> 00:09:02,263 What for? We got a hotel, a motel with 36 rooms. 104 00:09:02,884 --> 00:09:06,605 I want to get to know some mill hands. 105 00:09:06,679 --> 00:09:08,306 Why is that? 106 00:09:08,389 --> 00:09:09,356 I'll tell you. 107 00:09:09,432 --> 00:09:12,686 I just got into town about an hour ago. 108 00:09:12,769 --> 00:09:15,363 Hi. How are you? 109 00:09:15,438 --> 00:09:21,161 Right away, the police chief was saying, "Who are you?" 110 00:09:21,235 --> 00:09:23,533 So I told him I'm a labor organizer. 111 00:09:24,530 --> 00:09:26,999 I've come to put a union in the OP. Henley Textile Mill. 112 00:09:27,075 --> 00:09:30,921 He said, "The hell you are, boy!" 113 00:09:30,995 --> 00:09:33,339 He was dead right. 114 00:09:33,414 --> 00:09:38,420 You people are Communists, agitators, crooks, or Jews, 115 00:09:38,503 --> 00:09:40,096 or all four rolled together. 116 00:09:40,546 --> 00:09:43,891 You make folks lose their jobs, 117 00:09:43,966 --> 00:09:45,388 get their heads busted... 118 00:09:45,468 --> 00:09:47,562 Excuse me, sir. 119 00:09:47,637 --> 00:09:50,390 How much do you make an hour? 120 00:09:50,473 --> 00:09:53,397 I make $1.33 a frame. 121 00:09:53,476 --> 00:09:55,649 When was your last cost-of-living raise? 122 00:09:55,728 --> 00:09:57,105 I haven't had that. 123 00:09:57,188 --> 00:09:59,862 With today's inflation, 124 00:09:59,941 --> 00:10:02,535 that makes you a schlemiel. 125 00:10:03,444 --> 00:10:06,038 You calling me some kind of name? 126 00:10:06,614 --> 00:10:09,458 You're underpaid. You're overworked. 127 00:10:09,534 --> 00:10:13,209 They're shafting you right up to your tonsils. 128 00:10:13,287 --> 00:10:15,710 You need me, sir. 129 00:10:15,790 --> 00:10:17,884 If you run real fast, 130 00:10:17,959 --> 00:10:21,429 you'll get to your car before my dog bites you. 131 00:10:21,504 --> 00:10:23,927 We ain't even got a dog. 132 00:10:24,006 --> 00:10:26,304 You don't need one. 133 00:10:45,903 --> 00:10:47,621 Hey. How you doing? 134 00:10:47,697 --> 00:10:48,914 Do you have any vacancies? 135 00:10:48,990 --> 00:10:50,913 Yes. 136 00:10:51,993 --> 00:10:53,461 Hi. 137 00:10:54,162 --> 00:10:55,414 Hey. 138 00:10:56,456 --> 00:10:59,084 Friendly little town you got here. 139 00:10:59,167 --> 00:11:00,419 So far I've been told 140 00:11:00,501 --> 00:11:04,051 to shove off, get off, and go away. 141 00:11:06,549 --> 00:11:08,517 Oh, it's OK. 142 00:11:09,427 --> 00:11:11,896 Make sure they spray your room for roaches. 143 00:11:11,971 --> 00:11:14,269 You got roaches down here? 144 00:11:14,348 --> 00:11:16,601 I'm very familiar with roaches. 145 00:11:17,518 --> 00:11:20,067 Do you have a room with a view? 146 00:11:20,146 --> 00:11:21,944 You got the back alley or the parking lot. 147 00:11:22,023 --> 00:11:23,616 Which? 148 00:11:23,691 --> 00:11:26,410 Back alley or parking lot? 149 00:11:26,486 --> 00:11:29,365 Give him 31, Alston. 150 00:11:29,447 --> 00:11:31,370 Can't hear the drunks from in there. 151 00:11:46,088 --> 00:11:49,634 I'll be back this way next Wednesday after dinner. 152 00:11:51,385 --> 00:11:53,808 I'm having dinner with my wife's folks. 153 00:11:53,888 --> 00:11:56,858 Tonight was the last time, George. 154 00:11:56,933 --> 00:11:58,776 You don't say, Norma Rae. 155 00:11:58,851 --> 00:12:02,321 Well, now, isn't that a surprising turn? 156 00:12:02,396 --> 00:12:05,991 No. Been coming on for some time. 157 00:12:07,443 --> 00:12:08,569 You know something funny? 158 00:12:08,653 --> 00:12:10,326 I didn't notice it. 159 00:12:10,404 --> 00:12:13,248 Didn't you get your steak dinner 160 00:12:13,324 --> 00:12:15,452 and your box of pralines? 161 00:12:16,202 --> 00:12:20,252 Didn't you come three times in a row in that bed over there? 162 00:12:20,331 --> 00:12:21,423 I wasn't counting. 163 00:12:21,499 --> 00:12:23,092 Ha ha ha! 164 00:12:23,167 --> 00:12:25,044 Well, well, well. 165 00:12:26,295 --> 00:12:30,641 Looks like I don't know what it takes to satisfy you these days. 166 00:12:30,716 --> 00:12:34,016 It just doesn't sit well with me anymore, George. 167 00:12:34,095 --> 00:12:38,066 You got your wife, your two kids in high school. 168 00:12:39,141 --> 00:12:40,984 There's a lot of gossip. 169 00:12:41,060 --> 00:12:42,312 I got my two kids. 170 00:12:46,107 --> 00:12:47,780 I don't know. 171 00:12:48,734 --> 00:12:51,578 It just doesn't make me feel good. 172 00:12:52,697 --> 00:12:54,995 You're here to make me feel good. 173 00:12:59,328 --> 00:13:01,251 I'm not trotting down here anymore. 174 00:13:01,330 --> 00:13:03,332 Why, you hick. 175 00:13:04,125 --> 00:13:06,878 You got dirt under your fingernails. 176 00:13:07,712 --> 00:13:11,387 You pick your teeth with a matchbook. 177 00:13:11,465 --> 00:13:14,560 What the hell are you good for, anyway? 178 00:13:14,635 --> 00:13:17,722 You come outta that factory, you wash under your armpits, 179 00:13:17,805 --> 00:13:20,563 you come on down here and spread your legs for a poke, 180 00:13:20,641 --> 00:13:22,484 and you're dumping me? 181 00:13:30,484 --> 00:13:32,077 I heard a hell of a thump. 182 00:13:32,153 --> 00:13:34,576 That was me, getting throwed across the room. 183 00:13:34,655 --> 00:13:37,124 I have some ice for that. 184 00:13:40,161 --> 00:13:42,129 Sit down. Please. 185 00:13:49,337 --> 00:13:51,305 You look all shook up. 186 00:13:53,007 --> 00:13:54,975 Here, put this on. 187 00:13:58,512 --> 00:14:02,688 I thought everybody down South was Ashley Wilkes. 188 00:14:02,767 --> 00:14:05,896 You lie down with dogs, you get fleas. 189 00:14:06,979 --> 00:14:09,482 Does this look broken to you? 190 00:14:09,565 --> 00:14:11,442 Go like this. 191 00:14:11,525 --> 00:14:13,277 No, I don't think so. 192 00:14:13,361 --> 00:14:14,829 Do you want aspirin? 193 00:14:14,904 --> 00:14:16,372 No, thanks. 194 00:14:16,447 --> 00:14:19,371 Band-Aid? Valium? 195 00:14:19,909 --> 00:14:21,661 You're a whole drugstore. 196 00:14:21,744 --> 00:14:23,166 I'm a mild hypochondriac. 197 00:14:23,245 --> 00:14:25,213 Keep that on it. 198 00:14:29,210 --> 00:14:30,382 Ohh. 199 00:14:32,880 --> 00:14:34,348 Me and men. 200 00:14:35,841 --> 00:14:39,136 I ought to learn to say no right from the start. 201 00:14:40,638 --> 00:14:44,108 But if it wasn't men, I don't know what it would be. 202 00:14:48,229 --> 00:14:49,697 You got a lot of books. 203 00:14:50,982 --> 00:14:53,610 I'm terrified I'll wake up in a motel room one morning 204 00:14:53,693 --> 00:14:57,118 and have nothing to read but the phone book. 205 00:14:58,197 --> 00:15:00,120 She got big eyes. 206 00:15:01,325 --> 00:15:04,787 Yeah, got a big brain, too. 207 00:15:06,831 --> 00:15:08,959 What's her name? 208 00:15:09,875 --> 00:15:11,877 Dorothy Finkelstein. 209 00:15:12,920 --> 00:15:15,924 She's a hotshot labor lawyer out of Harvard. 210 00:15:17,550 --> 00:15:21,012 She must be your girlfriend if you haul her picture around. 211 00:15:21,095 --> 00:15:23,848 We sleep together on Sunday mornings 212 00:15:23,931 --> 00:15:25,649 and read The New York Times. 213 00:15:25,725 --> 00:15:28,820 I guess that makes her my girlfriend. 214 00:15:33,065 --> 00:15:34,692 Hey. 215 00:15:36,569 --> 00:15:39,118 - I'm Norma Rae Wilson. - Reuben Warshovsky. 216 00:15:39,447 --> 00:15:40,494 Nice meeting you. 217 00:15:40,573 --> 00:15:43,827 My pleasure. Keep that on your nose. 218 00:15:43,909 --> 00:15:48,039 I'm sorry about my daddy. He got a short fuse. 219 00:15:48,122 --> 00:15:50,671 My credentials keep me out of a lot of places. 220 00:15:50,750 --> 00:15:52,969 But once in a while, 221 00:15:53,044 --> 00:15:56,719 someone puts me in their best bedroom 222 00:15:56,797 --> 00:15:59,050 and treats me like a cousin. 223 00:16:00,092 --> 00:16:02,345 - Ha ha ha! - What? 224 00:16:02,428 --> 00:16:05,307 That sure as heck wouldn't be my daddy! 225 00:16:08,809 --> 00:16:10,436 You a Jew? 226 00:16:10,519 --> 00:16:12,396 I beg your pardon? 227 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:15,074 Are you a Jew? 228 00:16:15,149 --> 00:16:16,617 Born and bred. 229 00:16:19,653 --> 00:16:21,075 I never met a Jew before. 230 00:16:21,155 --> 00:16:23,123 How you doing? 231 00:16:28,162 --> 00:16:30,711 I heard you all had horns. 232 00:16:32,333 --> 00:16:35,257 Circumcised, yes. Horns, no. 233 00:16:37,254 --> 00:16:41,760 Well, as far as I can see, 234 00:16:41,842 --> 00:16:44,095 you don't look any different from the rest of us. 235 00:16:44,178 --> 00:16:45,896 Well, we are. 236 00:16:47,264 --> 00:16:50,609 Well, what makes you different? 237 00:16:50,684 --> 00:16:52,027 History. 238 00:16:53,187 --> 00:16:54,530 Oh. 239 00:16:55,940 --> 00:16:57,908 You got it now? 240 00:16:59,819 --> 00:17:00,911 Hey, it looks better. 241 00:17:00,986 --> 00:17:02,909 I think it stopped. 242 00:17:07,076 --> 00:17:08,453 Thanks for the ice. 243 00:17:08,536 --> 00:17:09,708 Any time. 244 00:17:09,787 --> 00:17:12,006 Christ, I hope not. 245 00:17:13,124 --> 00:17:14,341 Good morning. 246 00:17:15,876 --> 00:17:18,550 I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. 247 00:17:21,048 --> 00:17:23,642 Read this when you have a chance, on your break. 248 00:17:23,717 --> 00:17:26,470 Thank you. Good morning. 249 00:17:28,222 --> 00:17:29,974 Read this when you have a chance, please. 250 00:17:30,057 --> 00:17:31,058 Thank you. 251 00:17:31,142 --> 00:17:32,815 Here you go. 252 00:17:34,019 --> 00:17:36,067 Good morning. 253 00:17:36,147 --> 00:17:38,024 Read this when you have a chance. 254 00:17:38,107 --> 00:17:41,202 I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. 255 00:17:42,528 --> 00:17:46,374 Read this when you have a chance. 256 00:17:46,448 --> 00:17:48,621 Read this on your break. 257 00:17:50,161 --> 00:17:52,664 Want to read this when you can, please? 258 00:17:52,746 --> 00:17:55,499 I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. 259 00:17:55,583 --> 00:17:58,928 You want to read this when you have a chance? 260 00:18:01,964 --> 00:18:03,181 Good morning. 261 00:18:05,259 --> 00:18:07,387 You want to read this when you get home, please? 262 00:18:07,469 --> 00:18:11,224 I'm with the Textile Workers' Union of America. 263 00:18:11,307 --> 00:18:13,776 Read this on your break. 264 00:18:14,768 --> 00:18:17,021 Good morning! 265 00:18:17,104 --> 00:18:18,606 How's your nose? 266 00:18:18,689 --> 00:18:20,691 Read that on your break. 267 00:18:21,609 --> 00:18:24,283 There's too many big words. 268 00:18:24,361 --> 00:18:27,790 If I don't understand it, they ain't gonna understand it. 269 00:18:28,699 --> 00:18:30,417 That fellow your friend, Norma? 270 00:18:30,492 --> 00:18:32,039 He's getting to be. 271 00:18:32,119 --> 00:18:35,874 - Better hurry. You'll be late. - I don't care if I get there tomorrow. 272 00:18:37,166 --> 00:18:38,213 If you have questions, 273 00:18:38,292 --> 00:18:41,091 I'm at the Golden Cherry Motel, room 31. 274 00:18:41,879 --> 00:18:45,554 Don't be late for work, now, folks. 275 00:18:45,633 --> 00:18:47,601 Good morning. 276 00:18:51,138 --> 00:18:53,982 The lady wants to go to work. 277 00:18:54,058 --> 00:18:55,981 I'll catch you later. 278 00:19:01,148 --> 00:19:04,322 One of you guys shows up about every four years, 279 00:19:04,401 --> 00:19:06,995 about the same time we get the locusts. 280 00:19:07,738 --> 00:19:09,206 What's your name? 281 00:19:10,616 --> 00:19:12,835 My name's Jimmy Jerome Davis. 282 00:19:12,910 --> 00:19:17,211 We got six boss men in civil contempt. 283 00:19:17,289 --> 00:19:19,291 Would you care to make it seven? 284 00:19:19,375 --> 00:19:23,096 Why, hell, we plaster the toilets with them things. 285 00:19:25,589 --> 00:19:27,387 Want to read this on your break? 286 00:19:29,551 --> 00:19:31,098 Asshole. 287 00:19:43,941 --> 00:19:47,946 I already told him I wouldn't go out to dinner. What's he want now? 288 00:19:48,028 --> 00:19:51,703 Maybe he wants to make it breakfast, Norma Rae. 289 00:20:06,714 --> 00:20:09,308 Whatever it is, I didn't do it. 290 00:20:09,383 --> 00:20:12,683 You got the biggest mouth in this mill. 291 00:20:12,761 --> 00:20:16,641 "Give us a longer break, more smoking time. 292 00:20:16,724 --> 00:20:19,398 "Give us a Kotex pad machine." 293 00:20:20,060 --> 00:20:21,858 Do it, and I'll shut up. 294 00:20:24,315 --> 00:20:28,990 The only way to close that mouth is to promote you. 295 00:20:29,069 --> 00:20:31,538 You're going up in the world, honey. 296 00:20:31,613 --> 00:20:34,412 Yeah? How far for how much? 297 00:20:35,409 --> 00:20:39,539 Well, we're going to put you on spot-checking. 298 00:20:42,249 --> 00:20:44,752 Well, hell, it sure ain't gonna make me any friends. 299 00:20:45,169 --> 00:20:47,797 It'll make you another $1.50 an hour. 300 00:21:55,656 --> 00:21:57,158 How am I doing, little girl? 301 00:21:57,616 --> 00:21:59,994 You doin' good, Daddy. 302 00:22:00,744 --> 00:22:03,873 I think you better try to speed it up, if you can. 303 00:22:03,956 --> 00:22:05,799 I'm going as fast as I can. 304 00:22:06,458 --> 00:22:08,460 Yeah. 305 00:22:08,544 --> 00:22:10,922 Well, they're watching me. 306 00:22:11,004 --> 00:22:13,132 They're watching you. 307 00:22:36,363 --> 00:22:38,286 Well, what, you're sore at me? 308 00:22:38,365 --> 00:22:41,960 You shouldn't push your own daddy. 309 00:22:42,035 --> 00:22:44,288 I need the money for my kids. 310 00:22:44,371 --> 00:22:47,090 Well, I don't need it from my kid. 311 00:23:01,722 --> 00:23:03,565 Millie! Craig! 312 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:06,564 What are you doing in Grandma's marigolds? 313 00:23:06,643 --> 00:23:08,065 Get up! 314 00:23:08,145 --> 00:23:09,271 I don't want to. 315 00:23:09,354 --> 00:23:11,698 You do it anyway! 316 00:23:11,773 --> 00:23:13,241 You're filthy! 317 00:23:13,901 --> 00:23:15,869 I asked you to watch him. 318 00:23:15,944 --> 00:23:18,038 Criminy! I cleaned you up once! 319 00:23:23,410 --> 00:23:26,334 Come on! Right in here now. 320 00:23:26,413 --> 00:23:28,666 That's it. 321 00:23:28,749 --> 00:23:31,673 Come on, Steve! Come on, Steve! 322 00:23:31,752 --> 00:23:33,220 Come on! 323 00:23:43,931 --> 00:23:46,810 All right! They made it! 324 00:23:46,892 --> 00:23:49,065 He's got an arm on him! 325 00:23:49,144 --> 00:23:50,441 Woo! 326 00:23:50,521 --> 00:23:52,319 Hey, you want something? 327 00:23:53,565 --> 00:23:56,284 Get me a hot dog, lots of relish. 328 00:23:56,693 --> 00:23:58,912 - Woo! - All right! 329 00:24:00,697 --> 00:24:02,370 Can I have a hot dog, please? 330 00:24:02,449 --> 00:24:04,201 OK. 331 00:24:04,284 --> 00:24:06,002 Thank you. 332 00:24:06,703 --> 00:24:09,172 Hi, Wilma. Can I have two dogs? 333 00:24:09,248 --> 00:24:11,421 OK. Just a minute. 334 00:24:11,500 --> 00:24:13,468 Hi. How you doing? 335 00:24:14,169 --> 00:24:15,261 You enjoying the game? 336 00:24:15,337 --> 00:24:18,307 Oh, yeah. I love the shortstop. 337 00:24:19,967 --> 00:24:22,140 Scouts are looking at him. 338 00:24:24,471 --> 00:24:27,725 What's the matter? You don't like it? 339 00:24:27,808 --> 00:24:31,563 This isn't a hot dog. 340 00:24:31,645 --> 00:24:33,318 What's in this thing? 341 00:24:33,397 --> 00:24:36,367 Lots of things you don't want to know about. 342 00:24:36,441 --> 00:24:38,364 Excuse me a minute. 343 00:24:47,202 --> 00:24:49,170 Hello, Norma. 344 00:24:50,330 --> 00:24:51,752 Hey, Ellis. 345 00:24:51,832 --> 00:24:53,584 You're looking fine. 346 00:24:53,667 --> 00:24:56,136 I'm always fine. I'm a horse. 347 00:24:58,422 --> 00:24:59,674 You changed your hair. 348 00:25:00,299 --> 00:25:02,051 It grew. 349 00:25:04,011 --> 00:25:05,638 How's Craig? 350 00:25:06,430 --> 00:25:08,273 He lost a tooth. 351 00:25:09,266 --> 00:25:10,939 It wouldn't hurt if you came by 352 00:25:11,018 --> 00:25:14,238 to see him every now and then. 353 00:25:14,313 --> 00:25:17,112 I don't believe I can do that, Norma. 354 00:25:17,190 --> 00:25:21,866 Well, suit yourself. You always have. 355 00:25:31,371 --> 00:25:32,714 Give me a Coke. 356 00:25:32,789 --> 00:25:33,915 You want a Coke? 357 00:25:33,999 --> 00:25:35,000 Yeah. 358 00:25:35,083 --> 00:25:36,551 Two, please. 359 00:25:37,628 --> 00:25:40,006 Here, this is for hers. 360 00:25:40,088 --> 00:25:41,214 All right. 361 00:25:41,298 --> 00:25:43,050 Keep the change. 362 00:25:43,550 --> 00:25:45,223 Here you go. 363 00:25:47,638 --> 00:25:49,606 I climbed into the backseat of his Cadillac 364 00:25:49,681 --> 00:25:51,649 one rainy night six years ago, 365 00:25:51,725 --> 00:25:53,272 stuck my feet out the back window, 366 00:25:53,352 --> 00:25:57,277 and got little Craig off that Southern gentleman. 367 00:25:58,607 --> 00:26:01,736 He ain't done nothin' worthwhile since. 368 00:26:01,818 --> 00:26:03,741 Did you get married? 369 00:26:04,571 --> 00:26:07,450 He didn't bother. I didn't bother. 370 00:26:09,242 --> 00:26:11,336 My first affair, as I recollect it, 371 00:26:11,411 --> 00:26:14,506 was with my Hungarian piano teacher. 372 00:26:14,581 --> 00:26:15,833 I was playing Smetana. 373 00:26:15,916 --> 00:26:18,169 She put her head in my lap. 374 00:26:18,251 --> 00:26:20,549 I played the hell out of that. 375 00:26:22,547 --> 00:26:26,097 Next thing I knew, we were in her bedroom. 376 00:26:27,052 --> 00:26:29,555 Her husband came home and found us. 377 00:26:29,638 --> 00:26:31,766 The poor guy burst into tears. 378 00:26:31,848 --> 00:26:37,196 I said, "Hey, man, I'm sorry," 379 00:26:37,270 --> 00:26:40,774 and we all went into the kitchen and had a glass of tea. 380 00:26:43,694 --> 00:26:47,540 I'm always hassling with some other guy. 381 00:26:47,614 --> 00:26:49,708 That's how it seems. 382 00:26:49,783 --> 00:26:52,286 What do you think of me, I wonder. 383 00:26:53,620 --> 00:26:57,466 I think you're too smart for what's happening to you. 384 00:27:20,063 --> 00:27:21,485 I'm over here now. 385 00:27:22,774 --> 00:27:24,902 I got the jump on you! 386 00:27:29,656 --> 00:27:32,910 Come on, lady. Come on, come on, come on! 387 00:27:32,993 --> 00:27:35,337 Mark me down. Mark me down. 388 00:27:36,371 --> 00:27:37,418 I'm over here now, lady! 389 00:27:37,497 --> 00:27:38,544 Come on! 390 00:27:38,623 --> 00:27:40,421 I'm over here. 391 00:27:43,044 --> 00:27:44,762 Hey. lady! 392 00:27:44,838 --> 00:27:46,010 What you waiting for, girl? 393 00:27:46,089 --> 00:27:48,512 I'm over here now. 394 00:27:51,219 --> 00:27:53,096 Come on, lady. 395 00:27:53,180 --> 00:27:55,148 I'm over here now. 396 00:27:56,266 --> 00:27:58,940 Come on, lady. Come on. 397 00:27:59,019 --> 00:28:00,111 You damn fool! 398 00:28:00,187 --> 00:28:03,282 You'll get us both to lose our jobs! 399 00:28:10,906 --> 00:28:12,874 I'll get it. 400 00:28:19,414 --> 00:28:20,882 Hey. 401 00:28:27,714 --> 00:28:28,806 I won't trouble you. 402 00:28:28,882 --> 00:28:30,930 I just came to apologize. 403 00:28:31,009 --> 00:28:33,228 I know I could have lost you your job today. 404 00:28:36,056 --> 00:28:38,400 You sure went crazy on me. 405 00:28:38,475 --> 00:28:39,943 I know. 406 00:28:41,061 --> 00:28:43,780 I got handed divorce papers this morning. 407 00:28:43,855 --> 00:28:46,574 I guess I went off my head. 408 00:28:56,576 --> 00:28:58,544 Well, 409 00:29:01,164 --> 00:29:02,507 things can get to you. 410 00:29:07,504 --> 00:29:10,178 Would you come and have a drink with me? 411 00:29:10,257 --> 00:29:13,682 Just to make up for the ruckus. 412 00:29:15,262 --> 00:29:17,356 I'm Sonny Webster. 413 00:29:18,473 --> 00:29:20,646 You used to come in my mama's bakery. 414 00:29:28,316 --> 00:29:29,863 Sonny Webster? 415 00:29:30,777 --> 00:29:33,200 Sonny Webster! I remember you. 416 00:29:33,280 --> 00:29:37,911 You stood behind the cash register and gave everybody the wrong change. 417 00:29:37,993 --> 00:29:39,540 I never was too good at math. 418 00:29:39,619 --> 00:29:41,246 You're telling me! 419 00:29:41,329 --> 00:29:43,878 Sonny Webster! Golly! 420 00:29:46,084 --> 00:29:47,927 How about that drink? 421 00:29:49,921 --> 00:29:51,514 OK. 422 00:29:51,590 --> 00:29:53,467 Just wait one minute. 423 00:30:00,223 --> 00:30:01,816 I heard a man's voice. 424 00:30:03,101 --> 00:30:04,148 I'm going out with him. 425 00:30:04,227 --> 00:30:05,900 Where did you meet him? 426 00:30:05,979 --> 00:30:07,856 Just now, on the front porch. 427 00:30:10,525 --> 00:30:11,777 You're not going out. 428 00:30:11,860 --> 00:30:14,329 Daddy, I'm over 21. 429 00:30:14,404 --> 00:30:16,748 Let me say some names to you. 430 00:30:16,823 --> 00:30:21,544 Buddy Wilson, Ellis Harper, George Benson, a U.S. sailor. 431 00:30:23,163 --> 00:30:26,921 None of which is looking after you, as far as I can see. 432 00:30:27,000 --> 00:30:29,048 It's my roof, my food. 433 00:30:29,127 --> 00:30:32,051 You're always trying to keep men off me. 434 00:30:32,505 --> 00:30:36,976 Be grateful for your daddy's love. 435 00:30:37,052 --> 00:30:39,305 You're loving me to death. 436 00:30:40,805 --> 00:30:45,356 My needs are very much alive 437 00:30:47,020 --> 00:30:50,820 Is it OK if I stop by 438 00:30:53,026 --> 00:30:56,246 It's all wrong, but it's all right 439 00:30:56,363 --> 00:30:59,708 It's all wrong, but it's all right 440 00:30:59,783 --> 00:31:02,206 God darn, that lady can sing. 441 00:31:03,203 --> 00:31:05,171 And her words are so true. 442 00:31:05,246 --> 00:31:07,419 I like Elvis myself. 443 00:31:07,499 --> 00:31:11,800 I wish I could make lots of money by just wailing. 444 00:31:11,878 --> 00:31:13,255 That don't necessarily make them happy. 445 00:31:13,338 --> 00:31:16,217 What does? What does? What does? 446 00:31:16,299 --> 00:31:19,394 A man and a woman is about your best chance. 447 00:31:22,347 --> 00:31:23,690 Didn't you tell me you got a gun, 448 00:31:23,765 --> 00:31:28,236 and you was gonna shoot your wife? 449 00:31:28,311 --> 00:31:31,190 I was gonna burn them both down, 450 00:31:31,272 --> 00:31:34,867 her and her boyfriend, 451 00:31:34,943 --> 00:31:36,911 but I couldn't. 452 00:31:39,072 --> 00:31:43,828 She was a real good person when we went to school. 453 00:31:43,910 --> 00:31:47,380 But then a change had come over her. 454 00:31:49,290 --> 00:31:51,418 It still really amazes me. 455 00:31:52,752 --> 00:31:54,220 Listen. 456 00:31:56,214 --> 00:31:59,138 I'm a lot different from what I was. 457 00:31:59,217 --> 00:32:02,141 I mean, you go through things. 458 00:32:04,681 --> 00:32:05,773 Hey! 459 00:32:05,849 --> 00:32:06,896 Hey! 460 00:32:06,975 --> 00:32:09,069 New York! Hey, man! 461 00:32:09,144 --> 00:32:11,146 Hey, buddy! 462 00:32:11,938 --> 00:32:13,030 Come on over here! 463 00:32:13,106 --> 00:32:14,483 We need anybody else? 464 00:32:14,566 --> 00:32:15,692 The more the merrier. 465 00:32:15,775 --> 00:32:17,243 Reuben! 466 00:32:19,237 --> 00:32:22,116 Here you are with your papers! 467 00:32:22,198 --> 00:32:23,324 Come on over. 468 00:32:23,408 --> 00:32:25,456 Come on, Reuben. 469 00:32:25,535 --> 00:32:27,208 Reuben, meet Sonny. 470 00:32:27,287 --> 00:32:29,164 Sonny, this is Reuben Warbershovsky. 471 00:32:29,247 --> 00:32:31,750 Close! How are you? 472 00:32:31,833 --> 00:32:33,710 Sit down! Take a load off. 473 00:32:35,295 --> 00:32:37,138 What are you doing here? 474 00:32:37,213 --> 00:32:38,305 I'm working. 475 00:32:38,381 --> 00:32:40,008 Working? 476 00:32:40,091 --> 00:32:41,843 This is a drinking place. 477 00:32:42,927 --> 00:32:44,520 Can I pour you out one? 478 00:32:44,596 --> 00:32:47,190 I'll just have some plain seltzer. 479 00:32:47,265 --> 00:32:50,610 You're just drinking club soda? 480 00:32:50,685 --> 00:32:54,485 You'll feel a whole lot better than I will tomorrow morning. 481 00:32:55,648 --> 00:33:00,074 Reuben's trying to put a union in the mill. 482 00:33:00,153 --> 00:33:02,497 But there ain't never been one. 483 00:33:02,572 --> 00:33:04,870 Then maybe its time has come. 484 00:33:06,117 --> 00:33:10,497 There better be more than one of you, 'cause there's more than one of them. 485 00:33:11,331 --> 00:33:12,833 There will be. 486 00:33:13,666 --> 00:33:17,170 Those big companies get everything they want. 487 00:33:17,253 --> 00:33:18,846 You getting tired of it? 488 00:33:20,673 --> 00:33:24,598 Oh, when I do, I just wash it down with a beer. 489 00:33:24,677 --> 00:33:27,931 We never really got right down to talkin' 490 00:33:28,014 --> 00:33:29,982 Hey, you know what? 491 00:33:31,518 --> 00:33:35,443 This song on the jukebox 492 00:33:35,522 --> 00:33:39,026 was on the radio the night they called me up 493 00:33:39,109 --> 00:33:40,629 and told me my husband had been killed 494 00:33:40,693 --> 00:33:42,912 in a fight in a beer joint. 495 00:33:43,988 --> 00:33:46,457 I knew Buddy Wilson in high school. 496 00:33:46,533 --> 00:33:48,501 You did? 497 00:33:51,538 --> 00:33:53,632 Yeah. Goll! 498 00:33:55,625 --> 00:33:58,128 He was drunk, and he got in a fight, 499 00:33:58,211 --> 00:34:00,680 and he broke a beer bottle. 500 00:34:00,755 --> 00:34:04,680 And then this other guy, he had a broken beer bottle, too. 501 00:34:05,718 --> 00:34:09,097 I went down to the funeral parlor 502 00:34:09,180 --> 00:34:10,807 because I wanted to see him. 503 00:34:10,890 --> 00:34:16,272 This old guy says I shouldn't see Buddy 504 00:34:16,354 --> 00:34:18,777 because he wasn't "prepared" yet. 505 00:34:21,568 --> 00:34:22,660 I don't know. 506 00:34:22,735 --> 00:34:26,456 I really just wanted to see him, 507 00:34:26,531 --> 00:34:29,125 and my daddy wouldn't let me. 508 00:34:37,750 --> 00:34:41,004 Well, that were the end of Buddy. 509 00:34:42,172 --> 00:34:44,140 Far as that goes. 510 00:35:01,482 --> 00:35:02,574 I'm going to drive. 511 00:35:02,650 --> 00:35:03,776 I'll drive. 512 00:35:05,987 --> 00:35:07,113 No, I'll drive. 513 00:35:07,197 --> 00:35:09,370 No, no, gang. 514 00:35:09,449 --> 00:35:10,951 This way. 515 00:35:16,456 --> 00:35:20,461 I'm coming home with two men. 516 00:35:20,543 --> 00:35:24,047 That will surprise the hell out of my daddy. 517 00:35:24,130 --> 00:35:26,508 He sure keeps a close watch on you. 518 00:35:26,591 --> 00:35:28,935 Yeah. We're close. 519 00:35:29,969 --> 00:35:33,314 He used to drive 250 miles 520 00:35:33,389 --> 00:35:36,438 to take me down to Crescent Beach. 521 00:35:37,477 --> 00:35:41,698 He'd buy me a chicken dinner. 522 00:35:41,773 --> 00:35:43,741 We'd sleep in the back of the car. 523 00:35:43,816 --> 00:35:47,411 We'd wake up that morning and walk out on the sand. 524 00:35:47,487 --> 00:35:50,115 He bought me this ring. 525 00:35:51,616 --> 00:35:53,084 Reuben, would you pull the car over? 526 00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:55,332 I think I'm going to be sick. 527 00:35:58,831 --> 00:36:00,253 Hang on. 528 00:36:01,167 --> 00:36:02,965 Easy, easy. 529 00:36:04,879 --> 00:36:06,597 You OK? 530 00:36:06,673 --> 00:36:07,970 Come on. 531 00:36:09,342 --> 00:36:12,687 I'd help, Norma, but I think I'd give it up, too. 532 00:36:24,232 --> 00:36:26,951 That was real ladylike of me. 533 00:36:27,026 --> 00:36:30,371 I did bedpans one summer at Stuyvesant Hospital. 534 00:36:32,198 --> 00:36:35,668 One of these days, I'll get myself together. 535 00:36:35,743 --> 00:36:36,960 Well, make it soon. 536 00:36:37,036 --> 00:36:40,878 Because one of these days, I'm going to start in on you. 537 00:36:47,213 --> 00:36:49,136 Read this when you can. 538 00:36:49,215 --> 00:36:51,809 Got it down to two syllables. 539 00:36:51,884 --> 00:36:53,636 One's better. 540 00:36:53,720 --> 00:36:55,142 Good morning. Good morning. 541 00:36:55,221 --> 00:36:58,225 Read this when you have a chance, please. 542 00:36:59,225 --> 00:37:01,444 Good morning, Norma Rae. 543 00:37:09,861 --> 00:37:11,784 Hey, Lucius. 544 00:37:27,170 --> 00:37:29,093 Morning, Linette. 545 00:37:30,757 --> 00:37:32,179 Linette? 546 00:37:44,896 --> 00:37:46,819 Hey, Billy Jo. 547 00:37:54,030 --> 00:37:57,284 What the hell is going on around here? 548 00:37:59,118 --> 00:38:01,371 I'm talking to you! 549 00:38:02,872 --> 00:38:04,465 Fink. 550 00:38:05,958 --> 00:38:07,380 Well, shit! 551 00:38:20,014 --> 00:38:22,108 Nobody's talking to me. 552 00:38:22,183 --> 00:38:24,402 Less talk, more work. 553 00:38:24,477 --> 00:38:26,775 They're my friends. 554 00:38:26,854 --> 00:38:29,152 I'm quitting. 555 00:38:29,232 --> 00:38:31,360 You're speeding them up so you can weed them out. 556 00:38:31,442 --> 00:38:33,786 You knew all that. 557 00:38:36,280 --> 00:38:40,535 Yeah. I was greedy, and I was dumb. 558 00:38:40,618 --> 00:38:42,746 You can fire me. 559 00:38:42,829 --> 00:38:47,676 We'll put you back in the weaving room. 560 00:38:47,750 --> 00:38:50,924 Your family's been with this mill a long time. 561 00:39:26,664 --> 00:39:28,007 Good morning! 562 00:39:28,082 --> 00:39:29,584 Morning. 563 00:39:30,334 --> 00:39:31,335 Hey. 564 00:39:31,419 --> 00:39:32,545 Hey. 565 00:39:33,504 --> 00:39:35,381 We're all ready. 566 00:39:35,465 --> 00:39:36,557 All of you? 567 00:39:37,467 --> 00:39:39,469 All three of us. 568 00:39:42,096 --> 00:39:44,098 Well, then, everybody hop in. 569 00:39:44,182 --> 00:39:47,186 Millie, you can climb in yourself. 570 00:39:47,268 --> 00:39:49,487 Now, be careful. Don't fall down. 571 00:39:49,562 --> 00:39:50,859 What's your name, big guy? 572 00:39:50,938 --> 00:39:52,030 Craig. 573 00:39:53,399 --> 00:39:55,902 Put your feet on the floor! 574 00:39:57,236 --> 00:39:58,328 Bye! 575 00:39:58,404 --> 00:39:59,997 Bye, Mama. 576 00:40:00,072 --> 00:40:01,665 Bye, Grandma! 577 00:40:05,161 --> 00:40:07,084 I want to sit up front. 578 00:40:08,122 --> 00:40:09,669 Are we there yet? 579 00:40:09,749 --> 00:40:12,468 No, you silly willy. 580 00:40:14,003 --> 00:40:15,676 We just started off. 581 00:40:15,755 --> 00:40:17,348 I thought we were going to the lake. 582 00:40:17,423 --> 00:40:19,801 I got to make a stop. 583 00:40:19,884 --> 00:40:22,854 You should have done that before we started. 584 00:40:27,892 --> 00:40:29,815 This is Alice. 585 00:40:31,020 --> 00:40:32,613 She's mine. 586 00:40:36,275 --> 00:40:39,324 Like I always say, the more the merrier. 587 00:40:41,656 --> 00:40:44,034 OK, watch what you're doing now. 588 00:40:52,875 --> 00:40:55,674 Next time, you get up there yourself. 589 00:40:57,004 --> 00:40:59,883 You're sure easy with your kids. 590 00:40:59,966 --> 00:41:01,559 I yell at them. 591 00:41:01,634 --> 00:41:03,181 I swat them. 592 00:41:05,555 --> 00:41:07,478 You're a pretty woman. 593 00:41:08,558 --> 00:41:12,111 I was good at 18, but things have slipped and slid. 594 00:41:12,186 --> 00:41:14,689 You look all right to me. 595 00:41:14,772 --> 00:41:17,400 Keep the lights low, I'm all right. 596 00:41:17,483 --> 00:41:20,703 I'll take you where it's dark. 597 00:41:21,362 --> 00:41:22,784 I've been there. 598 00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:42,258 I don't owe a nickel in this town. 599 00:41:42,341 --> 00:41:44,059 I'll eat anything put in front of me. 600 00:41:44,135 --> 00:41:46,388 I can fix anything electrical. 601 00:41:47,471 --> 00:41:49,473 I'm all right after my first cup of coffee. 602 00:41:49,557 --> 00:41:51,559 I want that bad, though. 603 00:41:53,019 --> 00:41:55,613 I got me a new job at the gas station. 604 00:41:55,688 --> 00:41:59,409 I turn my paycheck over every Friday, 605 00:41:59,483 --> 00:42:01,781 and I come straight home from work, 606 00:42:01,861 --> 00:42:04,785 and I stay there. 607 00:42:04,864 --> 00:42:07,868 Me and Alice, we're alone. 608 00:42:09,452 --> 00:42:10,749 You got your two kids. 609 00:42:10,828 --> 00:42:12,205 You're alone. 610 00:42:14,915 --> 00:42:18,294 If you could help me, 611 00:42:18,377 --> 00:42:20,050 maybe I could help you. 612 00:42:23,090 --> 00:42:26,264 It's been a long time between offers. 613 00:42:33,059 --> 00:42:34,982 Kiss me. 614 00:42:35,645 --> 00:42:38,819 If that's all right, 615 00:42:38,898 --> 00:42:41,071 then everything else will be. 616 00:43:07,259 --> 00:43:10,847 By the authority vested in me, by this sovereign state, 617 00:43:10,930 --> 00:43:13,729 I pronounce you man and wife. 618 00:43:13,808 --> 00:43:16,778 If you like, you may kiss the bride. 619 00:43:26,278 --> 00:43:29,494 Mother over here has a little homemade wine for us. 620 00:43:29,573 --> 00:43:32,076 I picked the berries myself. 621 00:43:32,159 --> 00:43:34,127 Thank you. 622 00:43:40,543 --> 00:43:42,716 To my wife Norma Rae. 623 00:43:43,713 --> 00:43:45,465 And, uh... 624 00:43:46,757 --> 00:43:49,476 I just hope I can keep up with her. 625 00:44:02,732 --> 00:44:06,236 Roscoe doesn't like it, but I'm going. 626 00:44:06,318 --> 00:44:09,322 I'm not asking anybody. I'm going. 627 00:44:29,842 --> 00:44:35,599 On October 8, 1970, my grandfather, 628 00:44:35,681 --> 00:44:39,276 Isaac Abraham Warshovsky, age 87, 629 00:44:39,351 --> 00:44:41,353 died in his sleep in New York City. 630 00:44:42,730 --> 00:44:47,281 On the following Friday morning, his funeral was held. 631 00:44:47,359 --> 00:44:49,578 My mother and father attended, 632 00:44:49,653 --> 00:44:52,577 my two uncles from Brooklyn attended, 633 00:44:52,656 --> 00:44:55,375 and my Aunt Minnie came up from Florida. 634 00:44:56,535 --> 00:44:59,288 Also present were 862 members 635 00:44:59,371 --> 00:45:01,123 of the amalgamated Clothing Workers 636 00:45:01,207 --> 00:45:05,178 and the Cloth, Hat, and Cap Makers' Union of America. 637 00:45:05,252 --> 00:45:07,471 Also members of his family. 638 00:45:09,048 --> 00:45:13,098 In death, as in life, they stood at his side. 639 00:45:13,177 --> 00:45:16,556 They had fought battles with him, 640 00:45:16,639 --> 00:45:21,145 had earned bread together, and had broken it together. 641 00:45:21,227 --> 00:45:24,606 When they spoke, they spoke in one voice, 642 00:45:24,688 --> 00:45:27,487 and they were heard. 643 00:45:27,566 --> 00:45:29,568 And they were black, and they were white. 644 00:45:29,652 --> 00:45:31,325 They were Irish, and they were Polish. 645 00:45:31,403 --> 00:45:34,373 They were Catholic, and they were Jews. 646 00:45:34,448 --> 00:45:36,917 And they were one. 647 00:45:36,992 --> 00:45:40,246 That's what a union is, one. 648 00:45:43,040 --> 00:45:46,795 Ladies and gentlemen, the textile industry, 649 00:45:46,877 --> 00:45:50,472 in which you are spending your lives, 650 00:45:50,548 --> 00:45:52,642 and in which your children and their children 651 00:45:52,716 --> 00:45:55,219 will spend their lives, 652 00:45:55,302 --> 00:45:59,557 is the only industry in these United States 653 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:01,267 that is not unionized. 654 00:46:01,350 --> 00:46:05,355 They are free to exploit you 655 00:46:05,437 --> 00:46:08,691 and to take away what is rightfully yours. 656 00:46:08,774 --> 00:46:13,371 Your health, a decent wage, a fit place to work. 657 00:46:15,823 --> 00:46:17,666 I urge you to stop them 658 00:46:17,741 --> 00:46:21,086 by coming over to room 31 at the Golden Cherry Motel 659 00:46:21,161 --> 00:46:24,506 to pick up a union card and sign it. 660 00:46:25,791 --> 00:46:28,840 Yes, it comes from the Bible. 661 00:46:28,919 --> 00:46:33,015 "According to the tribes of your fathers, 662 00:46:33,090 --> 00:46:36,014 "ye shall inherit." 663 00:46:36,093 --> 00:46:39,188 But it comes from Reuben Warshovsky, 664 00:46:39,263 --> 00:46:42,062 "Not unless you make it happen." 665 00:46:45,227 --> 00:46:46,649 Thank you. 666 00:46:52,985 --> 00:46:54,453 Thank you, Reverend. 667 00:46:54,528 --> 00:46:56,121 Appreciate it. 668 00:46:57,406 --> 00:47:00,080 Everybody should have come. 669 00:47:00,159 --> 00:47:01,160 Next time. 670 00:47:01,243 --> 00:47:03,712 If I have to drag them. 671 00:47:03,787 --> 00:47:05,710 Hey. 672 00:47:06,874 --> 00:47:08,251 When are you going to join? 673 00:47:08,334 --> 00:47:09,586 Who's got the time? 674 00:47:09,668 --> 00:47:11,636 Make the time. 675 00:47:11,712 --> 00:47:13,680 I need help. 676 00:47:18,385 --> 00:47:23,141 I appreciate any help you can give me. 677 00:47:23,223 --> 00:47:27,103 Licking stamps, stuffing envelopes, typing with two fingers, anything. 678 00:47:27,186 --> 00:47:28,938 I'll show up. 679 00:47:44,411 --> 00:47:45,958 I'm here. 680 00:47:46,038 --> 00:47:48,382 I'm ready to inspect your plant. 681 00:47:50,209 --> 00:47:52,052 The federal government, 682 00:47:52,127 --> 00:47:55,381 in accordance with federal court order 7778, 683 00:47:55,464 --> 00:47:58,240 states the following, "The union has the right to inspect 684 00:47:58,300 --> 00:48:00,719 "every bulletin board in the mills at least once a week 685 00:48:00,803 --> 00:48:04,558 "to verify that its notices are not being stripped off." 686 00:48:08,268 --> 00:48:09,315 Do you have a trash can? 687 00:48:09,395 --> 00:48:10,567 Inside. 688 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:15,993 Keep America beautiful. 689 00:48:16,068 --> 00:48:17,866 Downstairs. 690 00:48:32,209 --> 00:48:33,802 Thank you. 691 00:48:42,886 --> 00:48:44,103 Morning. 692 00:48:52,229 --> 00:48:53,321 Morning. 693 00:48:53,397 --> 00:48:55,866 Am I moving too quick for you? 694 00:48:55,941 --> 00:48:57,739 I did my running in the army. 695 00:48:57,818 --> 00:48:59,570 I'm not in the army now, brother. 696 00:48:59,653 --> 00:49:03,286 If you're out of shape, I'll slow down. 697 00:49:05,117 --> 00:49:07,245 Keep it to a basic saunter. 698 00:49:13,917 --> 00:49:15,339 Good morning. 699 00:49:15,419 --> 00:49:19,174 I'm Reuben Warshovsky of the Textile Workers' Union. 700 00:49:19,256 --> 00:49:20,724 What is your name, brother? 701 00:49:20,799 --> 00:49:22,642 Buffum. 702 00:49:23,552 --> 00:49:25,395 How long have you worked here? 703 00:49:25,471 --> 00:49:27,144 Twelve years. 704 00:49:27,848 --> 00:49:30,567 Do you like your job? 705 00:49:30,642 --> 00:49:32,189 I'd like to keep it. 706 00:49:33,312 --> 00:49:37,067 You're interfering with the work. 707 00:49:37,149 --> 00:49:39,743 Court order says you can't do that. 708 00:49:39,818 --> 00:49:41,741 Well, then, brother, let us both keep 709 00:49:41,820 --> 00:49:44,539 to the letter of the law. 710 00:49:44,615 --> 00:49:47,118 I ain't got no kike brother. 711 00:49:48,660 --> 00:49:50,583 You didn't mean that. 712 00:49:50,662 --> 00:49:52,664 I meant it. 713 00:49:52,748 --> 00:49:55,752 Shit, do we have to fight? 714 00:49:55,834 --> 00:49:57,177 The bulletin board's over here. 715 00:49:57,252 --> 00:49:59,380 "Bulletin board's over here"! 716 00:50:03,675 --> 00:50:05,393 Good morning. 717 00:50:12,226 --> 00:50:15,776 Somebody's looking to get into a car pool. 718 00:50:15,854 --> 00:50:18,983 Somebody wants to sell a basset pup. 719 00:50:19,066 --> 00:50:22,036 You can pick pecans for 40 cents a bushel 720 00:50:22,111 --> 00:50:24,830 at Zelma Landing. 721 00:50:24,905 --> 00:50:27,408 The only thing missing is my notice. 722 00:50:27,491 --> 00:50:29,619 It's there. 723 00:50:29,701 --> 00:50:31,999 It is? I don't see it. 724 00:50:35,374 --> 00:50:37,627 Ah, yes. 725 00:50:39,002 --> 00:50:42,302 Wilt Chamberlain on stilts could read that thing maybe. 726 00:50:42,381 --> 00:50:46,306 Bring it down to eye level, brothers. 727 00:50:46,385 --> 00:50:48,854 We'll make note of your request. 728 00:50:50,556 --> 00:50:53,480 Why do you guys pull this horseshit? 729 00:50:53,559 --> 00:50:56,438 I'll have to call my lawyers. 730 00:50:56,520 --> 00:50:58,443 That's childish. 731 00:50:59,857 --> 00:51:01,825 Where's the pay phone? 732 00:51:01,900 --> 00:51:03,322 Hey! 733 00:51:04,695 --> 00:51:06,572 Rick, bring it down. 734 00:51:13,912 --> 00:51:15,664 Eye. Eye level. 735 00:51:15,747 --> 00:51:17,169 Eye. 736 00:51:27,342 --> 00:51:30,141 You ain't supposed to read it. 737 00:51:30,220 --> 00:51:36,523 No union organizer has been here for 10 years. 738 00:51:36,602 --> 00:51:37,979 I'm reading it. 739 00:51:38,061 --> 00:51:39,108 Well, read fast, then. 740 00:51:39,188 --> 00:51:41,862 You go read the court order 741 00:51:41,940 --> 00:51:44,034 that says any agent of this company 742 00:51:44,109 --> 00:51:49,366 can be held in contempt. 743 00:51:49,448 --> 00:51:50,495 I ain't violatin' no laws! 744 00:51:50,574 --> 00:51:52,497 You're violating the law now! 745 00:51:53,952 --> 00:51:55,454 Can we finish this? 746 00:51:55,537 --> 00:51:56,959 Certainly. 747 00:52:00,792 --> 00:52:02,840 Where's the other bulletin board? 748 00:52:02,920 --> 00:52:03,921 In the weaving room. 749 00:52:04,004 --> 00:52:05,847 Show it to me. 750 00:52:05,923 --> 00:52:07,300 Rick! 751 00:52:15,974 --> 00:52:18,568 Good morning. How are you? 752 00:52:20,687 --> 00:52:22,655 Good morning. 753 00:52:23,398 --> 00:52:24,820 Good morning to you. Good morning. 754 00:52:24,900 --> 00:52:28,282 I'm Warshovsky, Textile Workers' Union of America. 755 00:52:29,696 --> 00:52:32,575 Good morning. Morning to you. 756 00:52:32,658 --> 00:52:34,911 Good morning, ma'am. 757 00:52:36,161 --> 00:52:37,287 Good morning. 758 00:52:37,371 --> 00:52:39,999 Warshovsky, Textile Workers' Union of America. 759 00:52:40,082 --> 00:52:43,052 Good morning to you, ma'am. 760 00:52:48,340 --> 00:52:49,842 Good morning. 761 00:52:49,925 --> 00:52:52,644 I'm in room 31 of the Golden Cherry Motel 762 00:52:52,719 --> 00:52:55,188 if you have any questions. 763 00:52:56,807 --> 00:52:58,730 Good morning. 764 00:53:00,686 --> 00:53:02,609 Good morning to you. 765 00:53:03,981 --> 00:53:05,904 Good morning. 766 00:53:10,696 --> 00:53:12,448 Nice. 767 00:53:15,534 --> 00:53:20,961 Gentlemen, your average working man is not stupid. 768 00:53:21,039 --> 00:53:23,462 He just gets tired. 769 00:53:23,542 --> 00:53:27,297 You want to move this out of here, please? 770 00:53:42,811 --> 00:53:45,314 Move it. Move the stuff. 771 00:54:17,763 --> 00:54:19,481 Hey, Reuben? 772 00:54:19,556 --> 00:54:21,149 Hey. 773 00:54:21,224 --> 00:54:22,191 You busy? 774 00:54:22,267 --> 00:54:24,440 Yeah, very busy. 775 00:54:25,228 --> 00:54:26,229 Can I come in? 776 00:54:26,313 --> 00:54:27,656 Please. 777 00:54:38,575 --> 00:54:42,296 Jeez, don't they ever clean up around here? 778 00:54:44,289 --> 00:54:45,916 I don't want them messing with my stuff. 779 00:54:45,999 --> 00:54:48,297 I know where everything is. 780 00:54:50,003 --> 00:54:52,468 If I joined up with you, would I lose my job? 781 00:54:52,547 --> 00:54:53,969 No way. 782 00:54:54,633 --> 00:54:58,057 You can wear a union button as big as a Frisbee, 783 00:54:58,136 --> 00:55:02,642 talk union, as long as it's during a break, 784 00:55:02,724 --> 00:55:05,773 and pass along union pamphlets. 785 00:55:05,852 --> 00:55:07,650 They can't touch you. 786 00:55:10,399 --> 00:55:13,744 I was never a very good Girl Scout. 787 00:55:13,819 --> 00:55:16,242 I'll go along with you. 788 00:55:16,321 --> 00:55:18,369 You're the fish I wanted to hook. 789 00:55:19,825 --> 00:55:21,327 Well, 790 00:55:23,328 --> 00:55:25,956 you got me. 791 00:55:26,039 --> 00:55:27,916 What the hell you gonna do with me? 792 00:55:27,999 --> 00:55:29,672 Make a mensch out of you, kid. 793 00:55:32,045 --> 00:55:33,388 What is that? 794 00:55:35,590 --> 00:55:38,264 Somebody who visits the old folks' home on Saturday 795 00:55:38,343 --> 00:55:41,096 instead of playing golf 796 00:55:41,179 --> 00:55:44,604 or gives a blind man a dollar for a pencil. 797 00:55:44,683 --> 00:55:45,855 I'd do that. 798 00:55:46,518 --> 00:55:48,691 But would you take the pencil? 799 00:55:48,770 --> 00:55:50,238 Of course. I paid for it. 800 00:55:50,313 --> 00:55:53,908 Somewhere between logic and charity maybe there falls a little shadow? 801 00:55:53,984 --> 00:55:54,951 Reuben... 802 00:55:55,026 --> 00:55:57,279 We could debate this all night. 803 00:55:58,613 --> 00:56:00,035 Sign this. 804 00:56:13,795 --> 00:56:16,014 "Norma Rae Webster." 805 00:56:16,506 --> 00:56:18,725 Everybody down here has three names. 806 00:56:21,761 --> 00:56:26,107 Let me pin this on you. 807 00:56:26,183 --> 00:56:29,653 It would cover up the gravy spot. 808 00:56:29,728 --> 00:56:32,777 What do I get if I do? 809 00:56:32,856 --> 00:56:35,655 You don't get nothin' if you don't. 810 00:56:35,734 --> 00:56:38,112 Besides, ain't you had enough of that? 811 00:56:38,195 --> 00:56:42,200 We used to heat up that NCO club, remember? 812 00:56:42,282 --> 00:56:43,750 Bygone days. 813 00:56:45,285 --> 00:56:47,208 Then pin it on for bygone days. 814 00:56:47,287 --> 00:56:49,756 Wayne, I'm proud of you. 815 00:56:51,333 --> 00:56:54,678 Think we'll see that club again, honey? 816 00:56:54,753 --> 00:56:57,802 Take your wife. She doesn't get out much. 817 00:57:00,592 --> 00:57:04,267 Looks like you've strayed off the reservation, Norma. 818 00:57:04,346 --> 00:57:06,098 Is that right? 819 00:57:08,266 --> 00:57:11,736 You got a coffee machine at your end. 820 00:57:11,811 --> 00:57:13,734 But no water fountain. 821 00:57:13,813 --> 00:57:16,987 I cool down my coffee before drinking it. 822 00:57:17,067 --> 00:57:18,990 You'll cool everything! 823 00:57:34,876 --> 00:57:37,049 Hey, Reverend. 824 00:57:37,128 --> 00:57:39,005 Norma. You caught me in my shirtsleeves. 825 00:57:40,966 --> 00:57:43,719 Can we have some of your flowers for Sunday? 826 00:57:43,802 --> 00:57:45,930 Spider mites eating up everything. 827 00:57:46,012 --> 00:57:47,480 OK. 828 00:57:48,932 --> 00:57:51,560 Somehow I can help you, Norma? 829 00:57:53,478 --> 00:57:56,402 How long I been coming to this church? 830 00:57:56,481 --> 00:57:58,483 Since you were little. 831 00:57:58,567 --> 00:57:59,989 That's right. 832 00:58:00,068 --> 00:58:02,867 I accepted Christ when I was 6 years old. 833 00:58:07,158 --> 00:58:11,083 Would you call me a good Christian? 834 00:58:11,162 --> 00:58:12,914 With a lapse or two, yes. 835 00:58:12,998 --> 00:58:15,421 With a lapse or two. 836 00:58:15,500 --> 00:58:17,969 Are you a good Christian? 837 00:58:18,044 --> 00:58:19,796 That's for the Lord to say. 838 00:58:22,007 --> 00:58:24,886 I want this church for a union meeting next Saturday. 839 00:58:24,968 --> 00:58:27,972 That's blacks and whites sitting together. 840 00:58:28,054 --> 00:58:29,647 This is a house of God. 841 00:58:29,723 --> 00:58:32,476 I'm waiting to see whether it is. 842 00:58:32,559 --> 00:58:34,903 You're coming close to blasphemy. 843 00:58:35,228 --> 00:58:40,109 I've come here to ask God's forgiveness. 844 00:58:40,191 --> 00:58:42,444 I want to see what this church stands for, 845 00:58:42,527 --> 00:58:46,703 and if you'll say there should be justice, a union. 846 00:58:46,781 --> 00:58:51,252 And if you don't, 847 00:58:51,328 --> 00:58:54,127 there ain't nothin' good for me in that church. 848 00:58:54,205 --> 00:58:55,707 I'll leave it flat. 849 00:59:02,631 --> 00:59:05,475 We're going to miss your voice in the choir. 850 00:59:10,513 --> 00:59:13,608 You'll hear it raised up someplace else. 851 00:59:26,571 --> 00:59:29,996 I'll be in in a minute. 852 00:59:40,919 --> 00:59:44,640 We're holding a meeting, union business. 853 00:59:44,714 --> 00:59:48,014 Afterward we're having lemonade and ginger snaps. 854 00:59:48,093 --> 00:59:50,596 The shades are up. You can see in. 855 00:59:50,679 --> 00:59:52,181 Washed my windows on Saturday. 856 00:59:52,263 --> 00:59:55,107 You shouldn't have any trouble. 857 01:00:01,272 --> 01:00:04,025 You're going too far. 858 01:00:04,109 --> 01:00:05,611 How? 859 01:00:06,444 --> 01:00:08,367 There's a bunch of black men in there. 860 01:00:08,446 --> 01:00:09,823 You'll get us in trouble. 861 01:00:09,906 --> 01:00:14,582 I've never had trouble with black men, only white men. 862 01:00:22,669 --> 01:00:26,674 I remember some of you from the church. 863 01:00:26,756 --> 01:00:29,805 I did all of the talking that day. 864 01:00:29,884 --> 01:00:32,979 Now I'd like you to speak. 865 01:00:34,681 --> 01:00:36,308 Please. 866 01:00:52,407 --> 01:00:58,005 A man's work should be a man's work, not a term in jail. 867 01:00:58,496 --> 01:01:01,215 Blacks have been pushed, pulled, and scorned. 868 01:01:01,291 --> 01:01:02,964 For what? 869 01:01:03,042 --> 01:01:07,548 If everybody believes in the union, I'm all for it. 870 01:01:09,424 --> 01:01:12,849 Excuse me for saying this with menfolks here, 871 01:01:12,927 --> 01:01:16,272 but when I get menstrual cramps, 872 01:01:16,347 --> 01:01:18,270 which come pretty hard, 873 01:01:18,349 --> 01:01:21,353 they don't let me sit down on my job. 874 01:01:23,730 --> 01:01:26,609 You got to keep to your feet 875 01:01:26,691 --> 01:01:29,615 unless you bring a note from the doctor. 876 01:01:29,694 --> 01:01:32,117 We wouldn't pretend to be sick. 877 01:01:33,072 --> 01:01:36,997 I look at a brick wall all day. 878 01:01:37,076 --> 01:01:39,170 There used to be a window there. 879 01:01:39,245 --> 01:01:42,215 They brick it up to make us feel we shut in. 880 01:01:45,043 --> 01:01:48,798 My husband died of brown lung two months ago. 881 01:01:50,340 --> 01:01:54,846 His children are going to grow up not even 882 01:01:54,928 --> 01:01:56,225 knowing him. 883 01:02:03,061 --> 01:02:06,941 I got all his clothes, if someone could use them. 884 01:02:19,494 --> 01:02:22,247 I'm not getting the message across. 885 01:02:23,748 --> 01:02:25,921 17 people out of 800. 886 01:02:27,669 --> 01:02:31,765 Well, you're an outsider. 887 01:02:31,840 --> 01:02:33,934 Things move slow around here. 888 01:02:34,008 --> 01:02:36,852 This isn't New York, where you grab a taxi and grab your hat. 889 01:02:36,928 --> 01:02:38,896 Craig's wetting the bed. 890 01:02:40,932 --> 01:02:44,902 I told him not to drink Coke before he went to sleep. 891 01:02:46,688 --> 01:02:48,406 Craig? 892 01:02:48,481 --> 01:02:50,529 Come on, sugar, wake up. 893 01:02:50,608 --> 01:02:51,825 Get up. 894 01:02:51,901 --> 01:02:54,495 Put your arms around my neck. 895 01:03:06,374 --> 01:03:08,718 You got any ideas? 896 01:03:08,793 --> 01:03:11,216 Get some corn whiskey. 897 01:03:11,296 --> 01:03:14,220 We'll hit the back roads on Saturday. 898 01:03:15,925 --> 01:03:17,768 Are you finished, honey? 899 01:03:17,844 --> 01:03:19,312 OK. 900 01:03:20,013 --> 01:03:22,482 No more Cokes before you go to sleep. 901 01:03:33,484 --> 01:03:37,955 Mr. Robinson, how you doing today? 902 01:03:38,615 --> 01:03:40,083 I'm busy. 903 01:03:40,158 --> 01:03:42,502 I'm Norma Rae. You know me. 904 01:03:43,620 --> 01:03:45,247 Yeah. How do you do? 905 01:03:45,330 --> 01:03:47,128 This is my friend Reuben. 906 01:03:47,206 --> 01:03:49,425 Nice to see you. 907 01:03:49,500 --> 01:03:52,800 Read this, if you will, sir, 908 01:03:52,879 --> 01:03:54,426 and I'll fix your tire. 909 01:03:54,505 --> 01:03:55,882 How about that? 910 01:03:55,965 --> 01:03:57,888 You've got a deal. 911 01:04:02,597 --> 01:04:03,894 Can you do this? 912 01:04:03,973 --> 01:04:05,691 Are you kidding? 913 01:04:05,767 --> 01:04:08,111 Let's look like we can. 914 01:04:11,689 --> 01:04:13,111 Watch your hand. 915 01:04:13,191 --> 01:04:15,785 I think he was taking it off. 916 01:04:27,580 --> 01:04:30,550 Are you making a baseball bat? 917 01:04:33,002 --> 01:04:37,007 Hey, Joe. Will you read one of these? 918 01:04:37,090 --> 01:04:38,933 Jay, how you doing? 919 01:04:39,008 --> 01:04:40,681 Will you read one? 920 01:04:40,760 --> 01:04:44,640 Meet Reuben. He's a friend of mine. 921 01:04:44,722 --> 01:04:46,690 How you doing, gentlemen? 922 01:04:47,183 --> 01:04:51,609 Would you like to read one? Elwood? Bob? 923 01:04:51,688 --> 01:04:52,814 I'm not interested. 924 01:04:52,897 --> 01:04:54,899 You're not interested in a union? 925 01:04:54,983 --> 01:04:56,030 No. 926 01:04:56,109 --> 01:04:59,283 You think you'll get a better shake from management? 927 01:04:59,362 --> 01:05:01,080 I always have. 928 01:05:02,240 --> 01:05:03,287 Ow! 929 01:05:03,366 --> 01:05:05,744 Damn glad you cut it. 930 01:05:08,413 --> 01:05:09,756 That's telling him. 931 01:05:10,081 --> 01:05:11,674 Hey, Robert. 932 01:05:11,749 --> 01:05:13,046 Hi, Norma. 933 01:05:14,919 --> 01:05:16,296 - We come out... - Ah! 934 01:05:20,383 --> 01:05:22,306 It's only grass and water. 935 01:05:34,772 --> 01:05:37,867 We swam here as kids. 936 01:05:37,942 --> 01:05:41,367 We'd leave school, chuck off our clothes, 937 01:05:41,446 --> 01:05:42,868 and jump in. 938 01:05:43,406 --> 01:05:47,377 The only water hole I ever saw 939 01:05:47,452 --> 01:05:51,082 was when we opened the fire hydrant on 110th 940 01:05:51,164 --> 01:05:52,837 with a wrench. 941 01:05:54,667 --> 01:05:56,294 This is the life! 942 01:05:56,377 --> 01:05:59,130 It's just a mud hole. 943 01:05:59,213 --> 01:06:01,341 It's cooling off my mosquito bites. 944 01:06:03,134 --> 01:06:05,683 It's as clean as I can get it. 945 01:06:05,762 --> 01:06:07,435 Thank you. 946 01:06:11,059 --> 01:06:12,276 Whoo! 947 01:06:12,977 --> 01:06:14,604 It is hot. 948 01:06:16,314 --> 01:06:17,566 I'm coming in. 949 01:06:17,648 --> 01:06:19,116 Come on. 950 01:06:35,666 --> 01:06:37,088 You know what? 951 01:06:37,168 --> 01:06:42,094 An old farmer used to live around here with a BB gun. 952 01:06:45,176 --> 01:06:47,099 Sure hope he's moved. 953 01:06:47,178 --> 01:06:49,101 Yeah. Me, too. 954 01:06:49,180 --> 01:06:52,684 What's that? Something's flicking around my... 955 01:06:53,810 --> 01:06:54,811 Those are minnows. 956 01:06:54,894 --> 01:06:55,895 Those are what? 957 01:06:55,978 --> 01:06:57,446 Minnows. They won't hurt you. 958 01:06:57,522 --> 01:06:58,739 They better not. 959 01:06:58,815 --> 01:07:02,240 You're a fish out of water down here. 960 01:07:02,318 --> 01:07:05,197 It's not exactly my native habitat. 961 01:07:06,531 --> 01:07:11,753 What would you do on a day like this at home? 962 01:07:14,747 --> 01:07:18,092 Play handball at the Y, go see Aida at the Met. 963 01:07:19,210 --> 01:07:22,680 Eat Chinese, play poker, hit the sack. 964 01:07:27,844 --> 01:07:30,643 I've been two places in my life. 965 01:07:30,721 --> 01:07:34,730 I've been to Henleyville, been to Piston. 966 01:07:35,893 --> 01:07:38,237 Oh, you'd love New York. 967 01:07:38,312 --> 01:07:39,939 You would, wow. 968 01:07:40,022 --> 01:07:41,649 Super town. 969 01:07:41,732 --> 01:07:43,530 Most beautiful women in the world, 970 01:07:43,609 --> 01:07:48,536 best food, opera, theater, ballet. 971 01:07:49,824 --> 01:07:50,996 Reuben. 972 01:07:51,075 --> 01:07:52,622 What? 973 01:07:52,702 --> 01:07:53,919 You're homesick. 974 01:07:53,995 --> 01:07:55,372 Right. 975 01:07:56,372 --> 01:07:58,295 God. 976 01:07:58,374 --> 01:07:59,717 Reuben. 977 01:08:01,586 --> 01:08:03,680 You got a skinny build. 978 01:08:03,754 --> 01:08:04,846 Yeah? 979 01:08:08,176 --> 01:08:10,599 Sonny works out with weights. 980 01:08:12,597 --> 01:08:14,065 I tried that. 981 01:08:15,766 --> 01:08:17,609 I dropped them and broke my foot. 982 01:08:19,604 --> 01:08:20,730 Well, 983 01:08:22,440 --> 01:08:27,536 you don't got to worry, because you got a head on you, 984 01:08:29,030 --> 01:08:30,953 and you use it. 985 01:08:44,795 --> 01:08:45,967 What? 986 01:08:47,632 --> 01:08:52,937 We got a bad connection, because the line is being tapped. 987 01:08:53,012 --> 01:08:56,642 Hey, you? This is Norma Rae Webster. 988 01:08:56,724 --> 01:08:59,147 I'm talking union to Henry Willis. 989 01:08:59,227 --> 01:09:01,275 I'm on every night. 990 01:09:01,354 --> 01:09:02,981 Same old story, no commercials. 991 01:09:03,064 --> 01:09:05,032 Union, union, unions. 992 01:09:05,107 --> 01:09:08,327 Look, have your boss man tap me. 993 01:09:08,402 --> 01:09:11,906 Then you can go home to your wife and kids. 994 01:09:11,989 --> 01:09:14,458 Henry? 995 01:09:15,493 --> 01:09:16,745 Shoot! 996 01:09:18,871 --> 01:09:21,420 You ain't gettin' any sleep. 997 01:09:21,499 --> 01:09:22,921 Neither am I. 998 01:09:23,000 --> 01:09:25,469 We're working tomorrow morning. 999 01:09:25,544 --> 01:09:27,922 I got 100 calls to make tonight. 1000 01:09:30,049 --> 01:09:32,268 Is that going on our phone bill? 1001 01:09:32,343 --> 01:09:34,971 We'll take it out of my paycheck. 1002 01:09:35,054 --> 01:09:36,681 That damn milk is sour! 1003 01:09:38,349 --> 01:09:40,977 I didn't have a chance to go shopping. 1004 01:09:41,060 --> 01:09:44,781 And you didn't get to the washing, 1005 01:09:44,855 --> 01:09:48,200 or the kids, or to me! 1006 01:09:48,276 --> 01:09:49,573 Is that right? 1007 01:09:49,652 --> 01:09:50,778 That's right! 1008 01:09:50,861 --> 01:09:52,534 Damn TV dinners! 1009 01:09:52,613 --> 01:09:55,457 Kids going around in dirty jeans! 1010 01:09:55,533 --> 01:09:58,081 I'm going around, uh, without! 1011 01:09:58,160 --> 01:09:59,787 Altogether! 1012 01:10:13,968 --> 01:10:15,891 You want cooking? 1013 01:10:26,188 --> 01:10:27,906 You got cooking. 1014 01:10:30,109 --> 01:10:31,827 You want laundry? 1015 01:10:35,656 --> 01:10:37,249 You got laundry. 1016 01:10:39,744 --> 01:10:41,667 You want ironing? 1017 01:10:44,290 --> 01:10:45,837 You got ironing. 1018 01:10:45,916 --> 01:10:47,259 You want to make love? 1019 01:10:47,335 --> 01:10:51,215 You get behind me and lift up my nighty, and we'll make love. 1020 01:10:53,257 --> 01:10:54,429 Norma. 1021 01:10:56,761 --> 01:10:58,934 Norma! 1022 01:10:59,013 --> 01:11:00,185 Hey. 1023 01:11:14,987 --> 01:11:18,867 Come this time. Don't just nod your head. 1024 01:11:18,949 --> 01:11:23,045 Doris, come on. Bring your peanut butter pie. 1025 01:11:23,120 --> 01:11:27,000 I heard your little one's got the measles. 1026 01:11:27,083 --> 01:11:29,051 Keep him away from mine, will you? 1027 01:11:29,126 --> 01:11:32,005 Brenda, how's your new baby? 1028 01:11:32,088 --> 01:11:35,433 Get down to the Golden Cherry. 1029 01:11:35,508 --> 01:11:38,512 Hey, get down to the Golden Cherry. 1030 01:11:39,720 --> 01:11:43,975 Sue? Come on, read this, every single word of it. It's important. 1031 01:11:44,058 --> 01:11:45,355 Come on down. 1032 01:11:45,434 --> 01:11:47,857 If I got the time, you do. 1033 01:11:58,280 --> 01:12:00,954 I don't bump into you much anymore. 1034 01:12:03,202 --> 01:12:04,954 You all right, Daddy? 1035 01:12:05,037 --> 01:12:06,539 About the same. 1036 01:12:07,790 --> 01:12:10,509 Your color's bad. You been drinking? 1037 01:12:10,584 --> 01:12:11,961 Thimbleful now and then. 1038 01:12:12,044 --> 01:12:14,467 It's not good for you. 1039 01:12:14,547 --> 01:12:15,969 What's the difference? 1040 01:12:16,048 --> 01:12:19,302 I lie down and wonder if I'll get up again. 1041 01:12:21,053 --> 01:12:23,272 Don't talk old. I don't like it. 1042 01:12:25,850 --> 01:12:27,147 Listen. 1043 01:12:29,645 --> 01:12:33,991 I'm coming over there one of these nights 1044 01:12:34,066 --> 01:12:36,535 and take you out to a grand supper. 1045 01:12:37,945 --> 01:12:39,242 OK. 1046 01:12:39,321 --> 01:12:40,743 OK. 1047 01:13:08,684 --> 01:13:12,188 Has James gone back? 1048 01:13:12,271 --> 01:13:14,114 I guess so. 1049 01:13:15,441 --> 01:13:17,364 Where'd he go, home? 1050 01:13:17,443 --> 01:13:18,911 I don't know. 1051 01:13:20,779 --> 01:13:22,031 Jesus. 1052 01:13:22,114 --> 01:13:24,583 I ought to be going home, too. 1053 01:13:29,663 --> 01:13:32,337 Hey, how's Dorothy? 1054 01:13:33,417 --> 01:13:35,670 Terrific. Thanks. 1055 01:13:35,753 --> 01:13:37,755 I see you got a new picture of her. 1056 01:13:39,924 --> 01:13:43,394 You like it? My mother sent that. 1057 01:13:43,469 --> 01:13:47,224 She and your mother must get along real well. 1058 01:13:48,349 --> 01:13:51,228 Are you kidding? My mother loves her. 1059 01:13:51,310 --> 01:13:55,281 She's a lawyer, she's Jewish, and a great cook. 1060 01:13:55,356 --> 01:13:57,074 What else is there? 1061 01:14:02,655 --> 01:14:04,908 How come she's so smart? 1062 01:14:04,990 --> 01:14:06,242 Dorothy? 1063 01:14:07,451 --> 01:14:08,543 Books. 1064 01:14:11,121 --> 01:14:13,874 Oh, madame, your dinner. 1065 01:14:13,958 --> 01:14:16,885 Le grand banana and a beer. 1066 01:14:16,961 --> 01:14:18,087 No. 1067 01:14:21,423 --> 01:14:23,050 Who's this? 1068 01:14:23,133 --> 01:14:24,601 Dylan Thomas. 1069 01:14:26,095 --> 01:14:30,771 He was a poet, genius, and a drunk. 1070 01:14:34,687 --> 01:14:37,281 What's he write about? 1071 01:14:37,356 --> 01:14:42,327 Love, sex, death, other matters of consequence. 1072 01:14:43,529 --> 01:14:45,247 Is he hard to read? 1073 01:14:45,322 --> 01:14:46,539 Eh... 1074 01:14:46,615 --> 01:14:47,537 Eh... 1075 01:14:48,534 --> 01:14:50,536 So why should I bother? 1076 01:14:50,619 --> 01:14:54,419 Because maybe he has something to say to you. 1077 01:14:54,498 --> 01:14:56,421 Open that, will you? 1078 01:14:59,503 --> 01:15:03,258 "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." 1079 01:15:03,340 --> 01:15:04,432 Yeah? 1080 01:15:04,508 --> 01:15:05,600 Yeah. 1081 01:15:07,094 --> 01:15:10,185 Well, I'll try him. 1082 01:15:10,264 --> 01:15:11,356 Good. 1083 01:15:13,517 --> 01:15:18,114 Hell, there ain't nothin' on TV but reruns anyway. 1084 01:15:18,188 --> 01:15:20,031 Don't eat while you read. 1085 01:15:20,107 --> 01:15:22,405 I hate banana in my books. 1086 01:15:22,484 --> 01:15:24,657 Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch. 1087 01:16:03,025 --> 01:16:04,493 Warren? 1088 01:16:06,904 --> 01:16:08,326 Warren? 1089 01:16:11,283 --> 01:16:14,002 Nobody showed up at the meeting. 1090 01:16:14,078 --> 01:16:17,207 They got us on a stretch-out. 1091 01:16:17,289 --> 01:16:19,792 Put us on a three-day week. 1092 01:16:19,875 --> 01:16:22,924 Twice the work for half the pay. 1093 01:16:23,003 --> 01:16:25,256 All on account of you. 1094 01:16:26,090 --> 01:16:28,684 You stand there for a minute. 1095 01:16:34,932 --> 01:16:36,354 Oh, man. 1096 01:16:41,188 --> 01:16:45,159 There's six turnips and two quarts of water in there. 1097 01:16:45,234 --> 01:16:48,408 That's supper for seven people. 1098 01:16:48,487 --> 01:16:50,581 Sell your union someplace else. 1099 01:16:50,656 --> 01:16:51,999 Hey... 1100 01:17:17,641 --> 01:17:21,066 My arm's numb. I better lie down. 1101 01:17:21,770 --> 01:17:24,865 You got a break in 15 minutes. 1102 01:17:24,940 --> 01:17:26,738 I better go now. 1103 01:17:26,817 --> 01:17:29,240 Hang on. Your break's coming up. 1104 01:18:35,511 --> 01:18:38,435 In a minute, Lucius. 1105 01:18:39,139 --> 01:18:41,767 Mavis, Rhonda. 1106 01:18:46,647 --> 01:18:48,365 Hey, Betty. 1107 01:18:50,442 --> 01:18:53,446 You're supposed to be here at 3:15. 1108 01:18:53,529 --> 01:18:57,159 It's 4:15. Working for this union or not? 1109 01:18:57,241 --> 01:18:59,664 I got my tooth filled. 1110 01:18:59,743 --> 01:19:02,166 You were getting your beer gut filled! 1111 01:19:03,413 --> 01:19:06,257 Chew your old man out. Get off me. 1112 01:19:06,333 --> 01:19:11,590 I'm giving 9, 10, 12 hours here every day. 1113 01:19:11,672 --> 01:19:14,175 We're doing our share of work. 1114 01:19:14,258 --> 01:19:16,352 Either do your share or don't call yourself a union member! 1115 01:19:16,426 --> 01:19:21,603 Norma! Shut your cake hole. Out of the office. 1116 01:19:23,350 --> 01:19:25,227 I only said what was true. 1117 01:19:25,310 --> 01:19:26,857 Out. 1118 01:19:26,937 --> 01:19:28,405 Come on. 1119 01:19:33,569 --> 01:19:34,616 Peter. 1120 01:19:34,695 --> 01:19:37,323 Get to work. Come on. 1121 01:19:37,406 --> 01:19:40,000 Everybody back to work. 1122 01:19:56,717 --> 01:19:58,310 Mouth. 1123 01:20:01,179 --> 01:20:03,022 You can't come down that hard on a man. 1124 01:20:03,098 --> 01:20:05,521 Leave him his balls. Easy. Jesus. 1125 01:20:06,894 --> 01:20:10,273 If you were in the state department, we'd be at war. 1126 01:20:12,190 --> 01:20:14,784 - All right. I got a big mouth. - Um-hmm. 1127 01:20:19,406 --> 01:20:22,751 Cotton mill workers are known as trash to some. 1128 01:20:25,329 --> 01:20:29,129 The union's the only way we'll get our own voice 1129 01:20:29,207 --> 01:20:31,676 and make ourselves any better. 1130 01:20:32,794 --> 01:20:35,172 I guess that's why I push. 1131 01:20:35,255 --> 01:20:37,349 Our own Mother Jones. 1132 01:20:37,424 --> 01:20:39,426 Who's she? 1133 01:20:39,509 --> 01:20:41,728 She was some considerable lady. 1134 01:20:41,803 --> 01:20:45,774 She made it happen for the coal miners in West Virginia. 1135 01:20:45,849 --> 01:20:48,773 You ain't mad at me? 1136 01:20:50,187 --> 01:20:52,281 If the situation ever called for 1137 01:20:52,356 --> 01:20:58,113 a smart, loud, profane, sloppy, hard-working woman, 1138 01:20:58,195 --> 01:21:00,789 I'd pick you every time, kid. 1139 01:21:00,864 --> 01:21:03,959 How come sloppy? Nobody wears girdles anymore. 1140 01:21:05,869 --> 01:21:08,042 I didn't order anything. 1141 01:21:08,121 --> 01:21:10,044 Well, hey, you ate it! 1142 01:21:31,019 --> 01:21:32,271 What do you want? 1143 01:21:32,354 --> 01:21:33,776 Warshovsky around? 1144 01:21:36,024 --> 01:21:37,947 Reuben's at the printer's. 1145 01:21:38,026 --> 01:21:40,120 Pretty late for the printer's. 1146 01:21:41,947 --> 01:21:44,496 Reuben keeps them working late. 1147 01:21:45,367 --> 01:21:47,836 You're Norma Rae, aren't you? 1148 01:21:48,078 --> 01:21:49,079 Huh? 1149 01:21:49,871 --> 01:21:52,420 I'm Mrs. Webster. 1150 01:21:52,499 --> 01:21:54,672 We're from the union national headquarters. 1151 01:21:54,751 --> 01:21:56,503 Al London, Sam Dankin. 1152 01:21:56,586 --> 01:21:58,759 Is that right? 1153 01:21:58,839 --> 01:22:02,685 I might as well give you my shopping list. 1154 01:22:02,759 --> 01:22:06,104 We need envelopes, stamps. 1155 01:22:06,179 --> 01:22:07,601 We're almost out of typing paper. 1156 01:22:07,681 --> 01:22:11,606 How about some typewriters that don't stick? 1157 01:22:12,602 --> 01:22:15,025 We're not in office supplies, Mrs. Webster. 1158 01:22:15,105 --> 01:22:18,200 You aren't around much, either. 1159 01:22:18,275 --> 01:22:19,868 Hello, Reuben. 1160 01:22:19,943 --> 01:22:23,197 Sam, you're getting fat. 1161 01:22:23,280 --> 01:22:24,782 I've gained a couple pounds. 1162 01:22:24,865 --> 01:22:26,287 Al, how are you? 1163 01:22:26,366 --> 01:22:28,789 Lousy. I got a cold. 1164 01:22:29,953 --> 01:22:31,876 What brings you guys? 1165 01:22:32,622 --> 01:22:35,045 You're not getting up a head of steam, Reuben. 1166 01:22:35,125 --> 01:22:38,470 You know what I'm up against. 1167 01:22:38,545 --> 01:22:39,967 We're worried. 1168 01:22:40,047 --> 01:22:41,594 That makes three of us. 1169 01:22:41,673 --> 01:22:44,597 It's a small, Southern Baptist town. 1170 01:22:44,676 --> 01:22:46,553 You got to keep your nose very clean. 1171 01:22:46,636 --> 01:22:49,560 Why? You see any snot in mine? 1172 01:22:52,184 --> 01:22:54,562 Maybe Mrs. Webster would like to leave? 1173 01:22:56,480 --> 01:22:57,652 Why? 1174 01:22:57,731 --> 01:22:58,903 This concerns her. 1175 01:22:58,982 --> 01:23:00,859 I'm making it easy on her... 1176 01:23:00,942 --> 01:23:03,536 It's late. What do you want? 1177 01:23:06,323 --> 01:23:08,667 If the company wants us to look bad, 1178 01:23:08,742 --> 01:23:12,292 they'll use anything to make us look bad. 1179 01:23:12,370 --> 01:23:16,091 The mill hands go to church every Sunday. 1180 01:23:16,166 --> 01:23:18,009 She's talking union to them? 1181 01:23:22,589 --> 01:23:24,011 They say she's made a porno movie 1182 01:23:24,091 --> 01:23:27,761 with a local police officer, very explicit. 1183 01:23:30,680 --> 01:23:32,603 Run it for me. 1184 01:23:32,682 --> 01:23:36,357 There doesn't have to be a movie, if people talk like there's one. 1185 01:23:38,438 --> 01:23:40,941 The lady has an illegitimate child. 1186 01:23:41,024 --> 01:23:42,617 She's slept around. 1187 01:23:42,692 --> 01:23:44,615 She naps on your bed. 1188 01:23:44,694 --> 01:23:50,042 Are we in the union business or the character assassination business? 1189 01:23:50,117 --> 01:23:55,123 After an 18-hour day, I got the Legion of Decency here! 1190 01:23:55,205 --> 01:23:57,799 She's broken her ass for this organization! 1191 01:23:57,874 --> 01:24:00,627 She doesn't see her kids! Doesn't have time for bath! 1192 01:24:00,710 --> 01:24:03,634 Is this the Catholic Church? 1193 01:24:03,713 --> 01:24:04,885 Are we canonizing her? 1194 01:24:04,965 --> 01:24:06,308 It's your game. 1195 01:24:06,383 --> 01:24:08,010 You're damn right! 1196 01:24:08,093 --> 01:24:10,471 Make it stick or get out! 1197 01:24:10,554 --> 01:24:12,181 Get out anyway! 1198 01:24:17,060 --> 01:24:19,154 I'm sorry, Mrs. Webster. 1199 01:24:28,238 --> 01:24:31,538 I don't want to hurt the union. I'll quit if you want. 1200 01:24:31,616 --> 01:24:34,586 Weren't you supposed to be typing letters? 1201 01:24:37,080 --> 01:24:38,252 Yeah. 1202 01:25:03,106 --> 01:25:05,074 Hey. It's me, Norma. 1203 01:25:06,818 --> 01:25:09,321 OK, it's I, Norma. Forget the grammar. 1204 01:25:09,404 --> 01:25:11,623 We got to talk. 1205 01:25:16,077 --> 01:25:19,001 Maybe we could meet at my break. 1206 01:25:19,080 --> 01:25:20,502 OK. 1207 01:25:23,460 --> 01:25:26,259 I was making sure my kids got home from school. 1208 01:25:26,338 --> 01:25:29,968 Your kids are with my kids buying candy. 1209 01:25:32,093 --> 01:25:34,642 That's why dentist bills is busting me! 1210 01:25:35,597 --> 01:25:37,144 Uh! 1211 01:25:39,434 --> 01:25:42,859 Come on! Come on, boy! 1212 01:25:42,938 --> 01:25:44,565 Come here, boy! 1213 01:25:45,774 --> 01:25:47,526 You thinking union? 1214 01:25:48,151 --> 01:25:50,700 You want union? You'll get union. 1215 01:25:56,952 --> 01:25:59,375 Break it up! Break it up! 1216 01:25:59,454 --> 01:26:01,377 Break it up! 1217 01:26:10,507 --> 01:26:11,599 You all right? 1218 01:26:11,675 --> 01:26:12,722 Yeah. 1219 01:26:13,593 --> 01:26:15,095 What started this? 1220 01:26:15,178 --> 01:26:18,432 They put up a letter saying blacks are taking over the union, 1221 01:26:18,515 --> 01:26:22,861 that they're going to push the whites around. 1222 01:26:22,936 --> 01:26:25,689 We'll take legal action. 1223 01:26:25,772 --> 01:26:27,365 Get me the letter. 1224 01:26:27,440 --> 01:26:30,239 They're watching me. 1225 01:26:30,318 --> 01:26:31,661 How's your memory? 1226 01:26:31,736 --> 01:26:33,488 I don't know the pledge of allegiance. 1227 01:26:33,571 --> 01:26:35,824 Write down a line at a time. 1228 01:26:35,907 --> 01:26:38,626 It's like the time I pinched a lipstick. 1229 01:26:38,702 --> 01:26:39,794 Did you get caught? 1230 01:26:39,869 --> 01:26:41,917 I went back for curlers. 1231 01:27:13,069 --> 01:27:16,949 "Dominate it 1232 01:27:17,032 --> 01:27:21,003 "and control it 1233 01:27:21,077 --> 01:27:25,002 "as you may 1234 01:27:25,081 --> 01:27:28,426 "see fit. 1235 01:27:28,501 --> 01:27:31,425 "If now... 1236 01:27:33,340 --> 01:27:35,263 "if now..." 1237 01:27:36,259 --> 01:27:38,637 Damn! Damn, damn, damn! 1238 01:27:38,720 --> 01:27:42,691 "...you black employees, by joining the union, 1239 01:27:42,766 --> 01:27:46,316 "can dominate it and control it 1240 01:27:46,394 --> 01:27:47,691 "as you may see fit. 1241 01:27:47,771 --> 01:27:49,865 "If..." 1242 01:27:49,939 --> 01:27:51,191 Where's the rest? 1243 01:27:51,274 --> 01:27:52,867 That's all I could get. 1244 01:27:52,942 --> 01:27:54,364 Mata Hari. 1245 01:27:54,444 --> 01:27:56,287 They watched us every minute. 1246 01:27:56,363 --> 01:27:59,708 Here's our chance to nail them. 1247 01:27:59,783 --> 01:28:01,535 Don't tell me you can't remember. 1248 01:28:01,618 --> 01:28:05,873 You copy it line for line. 1249 01:28:05,955 --> 01:28:10,051 You get the date and signature. 1250 01:28:10,126 --> 01:28:11,218 I'll get fired. 1251 01:28:11,294 --> 01:28:12,261 I'll run you a benefit. 1252 01:28:12,337 --> 01:28:14,214 Thanks a lot. 1253 01:28:14,297 --> 01:28:16,470 Want a massage? Go to a massage parlor. 1254 01:28:16,549 --> 01:28:19,803 Either we get beat, or we don't get beat. 1255 01:28:21,554 --> 01:28:26,310 I got three kids, bills, and an unhappy husband. 1256 01:28:26,393 --> 01:28:30,569 I'll do it, but keep off my back. 1257 01:28:30,647 --> 01:28:32,866 Reuben, I'll tell you something. 1258 01:28:32,941 --> 01:28:34,409 What? 1259 01:28:34,484 --> 01:28:38,534 You've been away from home and you're getting crabby. 1260 01:28:38,613 --> 01:28:41,833 Reuben, you need yourself a woman. 1261 01:28:42,992 --> 01:28:44,619 Funny you should mention it. 1262 01:28:44,702 --> 01:28:46,955 Tonight's the night. 1263 01:28:47,038 --> 01:28:48,540 What would Dorothy say? 1264 01:28:48,623 --> 01:28:50,250 "Wear a rubber." 1265 01:28:58,049 --> 01:28:59,266 You can't copy this! 1266 01:28:59,342 --> 01:29:01,595 It's on the board. I'm going to copy it! 1267 01:29:01,678 --> 01:29:03,726 You better not. 1268 01:29:03,805 --> 01:29:05,978 I'm taking down every word! 1269 01:29:06,057 --> 01:29:09,937 It's my break! I'm copying every word! 1270 01:29:10,019 --> 01:29:11,487 Stay out of my way! 1271 01:29:11,563 --> 01:29:13,486 I'm copying it! 1272 01:29:18,027 --> 01:29:19,449 Hello, Norma. 1273 01:29:19,529 --> 01:29:22,248 You know who I am. 1274 01:29:22,323 --> 01:29:25,076 Put the pencil and paper away. 1275 01:29:25,160 --> 01:29:27,538 Stop it right now. 1276 01:29:27,620 --> 01:29:30,043 You're going to leave! 1277 01:29:30,123 --> 01:29:33,969 The law's going to come after you! 1278 01:29:34,043 --> 01:29:38,173 Mr. Mason, I started this, and I'm going to finish it. 1279 01:29:40,216 --> 01:29:42,844 "Serious violence." 1280 01:29:51,728 --> 01:29:54,151 Let's go to my office. 1281 01:29:58,776 --> 01:30:02,497 Why did you make personal calls on company time? 1282 01:30:09,412 --> 01:30:12,086 Spell out your names for me. 1283 01:30:14,626 --> 01:30:16,173 Don't be foolish, Norma Rae. 1284 01:30:18,671 --> 01:30:21,595 Nobody here is on my side, 1285 01:30:21,674 --> 01:30:25,679 and I'm not leaving until I set down all your names. 1286 01:30:25,762 --> 01:30:29,312 I want you off the premises now! 1287 01:30:30,099 --> 01:30:33,444 Phone your husband! Have him fetch you! 1288 01:30:33,520 --> 01:30:35,568 I want you out quick! 1289 01:31:03,800 --> 01:31:04,892 Norma Rae. 1290 01:31:04,968 --> 01:31:06,220 Forget it! 1291 01:31:06,302 --> 01:31:08,396 I'm staying put! 1292 01:31:08,471 --> 01:31:10,599 Right where I am! 1293 01:31:13,768 --> 01:31:16,988 It's going to take you, the police department, 1294 01:31:17,063 --> 01:31:18,815 the fire department, 1295 01:31:18,898 --> 01:31:21,993 and the National Guard to get me out of here! 1296 01:31:23,861 --> 01:31:27,240 I'll wait for the sheriff to take me home! 1297 01:31:27,323 --> 01:31:30,497 And I ain't gonna budge till he gets here! 1298 01:34:08,401 --> 01:34:11,120 Come on down now, Norma Rae. 1299 01:34:12,905 --> 01:34:14,828 Come on down, now. 1300 01:34:21,247 --> 01:34:23,670 You heard what I said. Come down. 1301 01:34:37,638 --> 01:34:38,855 Lamar. 1302 01:34:41,434 --> 01:34:46,565 I want you to put it in writing that Sheriff Lamar Miller 1303 01:34:46,647 --> 01:34:50,777 is going to take Norma Rae Webster straight home. 1304 01:34:50,860 --> 01:34:53,454 I want you to sign it, 1305 01:34:53,529 --> 01:34:57,204 and I want you to hand it to me. 1306 01:34:57,617 --> 01:34:59,369 Don't tell me what to do. 1307 01:34:59,452 --> 01:35:02,456 You're getting nothing from me in writing. 1308 01:35:03,998 --> 01:35:05,500 You want her off the premises? 1309 01:35:05,583 --> 01:35:07,130 Take her out. 1310 01:35:08,878 --> 01:35:10,721 I'm not sure I should get in the same car 1311 01:35:10,797 --> 01:35:12,970 with you and nobody else. 1312 01:35:14,467 --> 01:35:17,892 Lamar, I ain't gonna bite you. 1313 01:35:49,877 --> 01:35:52,346 A police car? You're taking me to jail! 1314 01:35:52,421 --> 01:35:55,516 No! No! No! 1315 01:35:55,591 --> 01:35:56,717 Quit that now! 1316 01:35:56,801 --> 01:35:58,178 No! No! 1317 01:35:58,261 --> 01:35:59,808 You're going to jail! 1318 01:35:59,887 --> 01:36:01,230 No! 1319 01:36:01,305 --> 01:36:02,648 Get her in there. 1320 01:36:02,723 --> 01:36:04,521 No! No! 1321 01:36:04,600 --> 01:36:07,274 No! 1322 01:36:07,353 --> 01:36:08,855 Get in there now! 1323 01:36:08,938 --> 01:36:10,030 No! 1324 01:36:10,106 --> 01:36:11,358 Get her in. 1325 01:36:11,440 --> 01:36:13,238 Get in there. 1326 01:36:13,317 --> 01:36:14,785 No! 1327 01:36:15,945 --> 01:36:17,413 Ahhh! 1328 01:36:17,530 --> 01:36:19,453 No! 1329 01:36:32,461 --> 01:36:35,886 Webster, Norma Rae. 1330 01:36:35,965 --> 01:36:39,390 704 Priester Road, Henleyville. 1331 01:36:39,468 --> 01:36:41,186 She's white. 1332 01:36:41,262 --> 01:36:43,723 Female, 31. 1333 01:36:43,806 --> 01:36:46,434 Occupation, textile. 1334 01:36:46,517 --> 01:36:50,939 Fair complexion, brown hair, brown eyes. 1335 01:36:51,022 --> 01:36:55,072 Arrest number, 2238B. 1336 01:36:55,151 --> 01:36:58,696 Charge, disorderly conduct. 1337 01:36:59,947 --> 01:37:03,538 Norma Rae, you go with her now. 1338 01:37:22,386 --> 01:37:24,388 Might as well sit down. 1339 01:37:26,641 --> 01:37:29,190 You got one phone call. 1340 01:37:29,268 --> 01:37:31,020 Better call Sonny. 1341 01:37:32,605 --> 01:37:35,074 I'll be calling my union organizer. 1342 01:37:39,862 --> 01:37:42,866 The first time you're in is bad. 1343 01:38:00,967 --> 01:38:03,061 It comes with the job. 1344 01:38:09,100 --> 01:38:11,694 I saw a pregnant woman on a picket line 1345 01:38:11,769 --> 01:38:14,488 get hit in the stomach with a club. 1346 01:38:14,563 --> 01:38:17,988 I saw a boy of 16 get shot in the back. 1347 01:38:19,777 --> 01:38:22,155 I saw a guy blown to hell and back 1348 01:38:22,238 --> 01:38:24,707 when he tried to start his car. 1349 01:38:29,912 --> 01:38:32,756 You just got your feet wet on this one. 1350 01:38:48,431 --> 01:38:51,025 Norma, you all right? 1351 01:38:55,021 --> 01:38:57,444 I put the kids to bed. 1352 01:39:05,740 --> 01:39:07,413 Craig? 1353 01:39:07,491 --> 01:39:08,583 Honey, wake up. 1354 01:39:08,659 --> 01:39:10,161 It's Mama. 1355 01:39:10,244 --> 01:39:13,088 I want to talk to you. Come on. 1356 01:39:13,164 --> 01:39:15,838 Put your arms around my neck. 1357 01:39:15,916 --> 01:39:18,294 Alice, Millie, wake up. 1358 01:39:18,377 --> 01:39:20,220 I want to talk to you, sweetheart. 1359 01:39:20,296 --> 01:39:22,594 Come in the living room. 1360 01:39:23,924 --> 01:39:26,302 Come on. Atta girl. 1361 01:39:49,492 --> 01:39:51,460 I love you kids. 1362 01:39:52,828 --> 01:39:55,297 That's the first thing. 1363 01:39:56,499 --> 01:39:58,422 And Sonny loves you. 1364 01:40:00,503 --> 01:40:02,926 You got the both of us. 1365 01:40:06,300 --> 01:40:08,348 The second thing is 1366 01:40:10,012 --> 01:40:12,435 I'm a jailbird. 1367 01:40:14,100 --> 01:40:16,523 Now, you're going to be hearing that 1368 01:40:16,602 --> 01:40:19,071 and a lot of other things. 1369 01:40:19,146 --> 01:40:22,116 But you're going to hear it from me first. 1370 01:40:27,571 --> 01:40:29,494 Millie. 1371 01:40:29,573 --> 01:40:31,371 Your daddy. 1372 01:40:31,450 --> 01:40:33,498 His name was Buddy Wilson. 1373 01:40:33,577 --> 01:40:36,922 He died four months after you was born. 1374 01:40:39,083 --> 01:40:40,551 Craig. 1375 01:40:42,086 --> 01:40:45,260 I wasn't never married to your daddy. 1376 01:40:45,339 --> 01:40:47,967 And he wasn't Buddy. 1377 01:40:48,050 --> 01:40:50,348 And he's not Sonny. 1378 01:40:50,427 --> 01:40:52,395 He's another man. 1379 01:40:54,932 --> 01:40:58,027 And there have been others in my life. 1380 01:40:58,102 --> 01:41:01,572 You're going to be hearing about them, too. 1381 01:41:02,773 --> 01:41:04,775 I'm not perfect. 1382 01:41:06,110 --> 01:41:07,987 I made mistakes. 1383 01:41:20,082 --> 01:41:23,507 Millie, these are pictures of your daddy. 1384 01:41:24,628 --> 01:41:27,256 Craig, I got pictures of your daddy. 1385 01:41:28,632 --> 01:41:30,600 They belong to you. 1386 01:41:41,645 --> 01:41:44,740 If you go in the mill, 1387 01:41:44,815 --> 01:41:48,740 I want life to be better for you than it is for me. 1388 01:41:51,655 --> 01:41:54,704 That's why I joined the union, 1389 01:41:54,783 --> 01:41:57,286 and that's why I got fired for it. 1390 01:42:00,039 --> 01:42:01,791 You understand me? 1391 01:42:07,671 --> 01:42:09,548 Now, you kids, 1392 01:42:11,008 --> 01:42:12,976 you know what I am. 1393 01:42:14,637 --> 01:42:17,607 And you know that I believe 1394 01:42:17,681 --> 01:42:20,651 in standing up for what I think is right. 1395 01:42:31,695 --> 01:42:34,494 Go to the bathroom before you get into bed. 1396 01:42:35,699 --> 01:42:38,168 Take your pictures. 1397 01:42:39,703 --> 01:42:41,171 Go on. 1398 01:42:51,507 --> 01:42:54,135 I'll take a bath. 1399 01:42:54,218 --> 01:42:56,687 There's lice in that jail. 1400 01:43:08,691 --> 01:43:11,615 She had one call, and she called you. 1401 01:43:13,237 --> 01:43:15,706 She knew I could make bail. 1402 01:43:17,700 --> 01:43:19,953 You come in here, 1403 01:43:20,035 --> 01:43:23,915 you mix her up, turn her head all around. 1404 01:43:23,998 --> 01:43:26,171 She's all changed. 1405 01:43:28,252 --> 01:43:31,381 I didn't want her to be a front-runner. 1406 01:43:36,385 --> 01:43:39,480 What's going to happen to us now? 1407 01:43:39,555 --> 01:43:40,898 She stood on the table. 1408 01:43:40,973 --> 01:43:42,941 She's a free woman. 1409 01:43:43,017 --> 01:43:46,146 Maybe you can live with it. Maybe you can't. 1410 01:43:55,779 --> 01:43:57,873 Busted my shoelace. 1411 01:43:59,908 --> 01:44:02,036 There's another one in the drawer. 1412 01:44:02,119 --> 01:44:04,668 I busted that one last week. 1413 01:44:12,546 --> 01:44:15,595 Did you ever sleep with him? 1414 01:44:15,674 --> 01:44:17,301 No. 1415 01:44:19,762 --> 01:44:20,979 But he's in my head. 1416 01:44:26,101 --> 01:44:30,106 I'm going to see you through getting tired, 1417 01:44:30,189 --> 01:44:31,987 getting sick, 1418 01:44:33,942 --> 01:44:35,910 getting old. 1419 01:44:39,073 --> 01:44:42,998 I'm going to see you through anything that comes up. 1420 01:44:44,912 --> 01:44:47,836 And there's nobody else in my head. 1421 01:44:49,958 --> 01:44:51,460 Just you. 1422 01:47:24,655 --> 01:47:29,081 Folks, ballots tabulated for the O.P. Henley Company, 1423 01:47:29,159 --> 01:47:33,289 against the union, 373. 1424 01:47:55,686 --> 01:47:57,154 Folks, 1425 01:48:00,023 --> 01:48:04,073 the count for the union, 427. 1426 01:48:19,001 --> 01:48:21,003 We got it in! 1427 01:48:21,878 --> 01:48:25,678 Union! Union! Union! Union! 1428 01:48:26,925 --> 01:48:29,644 Union! Union! Union! 1429 01:48:31,888 --> 01:48:34,607 Union! Union! Union! 1430 01:48:40,522 --> 01:48:43,651 Union! Union! Union! Union! 1431 01:48:43,734 --> 01:48:47,284 Union! Union! Union! 1432 01:48:47,362 --> 01:48:50,787 Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! 1433 01:48:58,957 --> 01:49:01,927 Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! 1434 01:49:26,943 --> 01:49:28,786 You going to drive straight through? 1435 01:49:28,862 --> 01:49:31,206 Yes. 1436 01:49:31,281 --> 01:49:33,659 You better stop for coffee, stay awake. 1437 01:49:33,742 --> 01:49:36,040 I got a thermos in the car. 1438 01:49:38,705 --> 01:49:40,127 Well... 1439 01:49:41,958 --> 01:49:43,426 Well? 1440 01:49:43,585 --> 01:49:44,837 Well. 1441 01:49:44,920 --> 01:49:45,967 Well. 1442 01:49:46,588 --> 01:49:48,716 Ah, so. 1443 01:49:48,799 --> 01:49:50,767 What are you going to do now? 1444 01:49:50,842 --> 01:49:52,936 Live. What else? 1445 01:49:54,429 --> 01:49:57,103 Drop me a line once in a while. 1446 01:49:58,308 --> 01:49:59,981 Anyone read your mail? 1447 01:50:00,060 --> 01:50:02,062 My mother. 1448 01:50:05,774 --> 01:50:08,573 I'll send you a copy of Dylan Thomas. 1449 01:50:08,652 --> 01:50:11,576 I already bought one for myself. 1450 01:50:11,655 --> 01:50:13,532 You did? 1451 01:50:13,615 --> 01:50:16,243 Nobody can do anything for you, huh? 1452 01:50:18,620 --> 01:50:23,800 You've done something for me, a lot. 1453 01:50:26,795 --> 01:50:29,719 Well, you did something for us. 1454 01:50:32,634 --> 01:50:34,386 A mitzvah. 1455 01:50:35,429 --> 01:50:38,353 - What's that? - What is that? 1456 01:50:39,057 --> 01:50:40,980 That's a good work. 1457 01:50:43,520 --> 01:50:46,490 I don't say good-bye. 1458 01:50:46,565 --> 01:50:49,364 I have been known to cry. 1459 01:50:49,443 --> 01:50:51,366 - Well, what do you say? - Ahhh... 1460 01:50:53,321 --> 01:50:54,868 Be happy. 1461 01:50:54,948 --> 01:50:56,871 Be well. 1462 01:50:56,950 --> 01:50:58,873 Same to you. 1463 01:51:04,833 --> 01:51:07,928 Best wishes don't seem hardly enough. 1464 01:51:08,003 --> 01:51:09,471 I... 1465 01:51:09,546 --> 01:51:11,093 I'd like to thank you. 1466 01:51:14,050 --> 01:51:15,677 I do. 1467 01:51:15,761 --> 01:51:19,311 I thank you for your companionship, 1468 01:51:19,389 --> 01:51:21,812 your stamina, 1469 01:51:21,892 --> 01:51:25,194 your horse sense, and 101 laughs. 1470 01:51:27,564 --> 01:51:30,613 I also enjoyed very much 1471 01:51:30,692 --> 01:51:33,411 looking at your shining hair 1472 01:51:33,487 --> 01:51:35,205 and your shining face. 1473 01:51:36,615 --> 01:51:39,459 Reuben, I think you like me. 1474 01:51:40,911 --> 01:51:42,379 I do. 1475 01:51:45,290 --> 01:51:48,009 I was going to buy you something, 1476 01:51:48,084 --> 01:51:51,054 but I didn't know what you'd like. 1477 01:51:52,756 --> 01:51:57,227 Norma, what I've had from you has been sumptuous. 1478 01:52:12,317 --> 01:52:17,995 Bless the child of a workin' man 1479 01:52:18,073 --> 01:52:23,671 She knows too soon who she is 1480 01:52:23,745 --> 01:52:29,673 And bless the hands of a workin' man 1481 01:52:29,751 --> 01:52:35,508 He knows his soul is his 1482 01:52:35,590 --> 01:52:38,389 So it goes like it goes 1483 01:52:38,468 --> 01:52:40,186 Like the river flows 1484 01:52:41,054 --> 01:52:46,686 And time, it rolls right on 1485 01:52:46,768 --> 01:52:49,612 And maybe what's good 1486 01:52:49,688 --> 01:52:54,615 Gets a little bit better 1487 01:52:54,693 --> 01:53:01,451 And maybe what's bad gets gone 1488 01:53:07,956 --> 01:53:10,630 And it goes like it goes 1489 01:53:10,709 --> 01:53:13,588 Like the river flows 1490 01:53:13,670 --> 01:53:20,144 And time keeps rollin' on 1491 01:53:20,218 --> 01:53:23,563 And maybe what's good 1492 01:53:23,638 --> 01:53:29,691 Gets a little bit better 1493 01:53:29,769 --> 01:53:35,079 And maybe what's bad 1494 01:53:35,150 --> 01:53:41,999 Gets gone 94793