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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:25,943 --> 00:00:30,949 Ain't no miracle bein' born 2 00:00:31,031 --> 00:00:37,960 People doin' it every day 3 00:00:38,038 --> 00:00:44,216 Ain't no miracle growin' up 4 00:00:44,294 --> 00:00:49,972 People just grow that way 5 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:52,974 So it goes like it goes 6 00:00:53,053 --> 00:00:55,727 Like the river flows 7 00:00:55,806 --> 00:01:01,484 And time, it rolls right on 8 00:01:01,562 --> 00:01:04,486 And maybe what's good 9 00:01:04,565 --> 00:01:08,490 Gets a little bit better 10 00:01:08,569 --> 00:01:15,498 And maybe what's bad gets gone 11 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:27,506 Bless the child of a workin' man 12 00:01:27,588 --> 00:01:33,561 She knows too soon who she is 13 00:01:34,845 --> 00:01:39,521 And bless the hands of a workin' man 14 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:45,198 He knows his soul is his 15 00:01:45,272 --> 00:01:48,025 So it goes like it goes 16 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:51,112 Like the river flows 17 00:01:51,194 --> 00:01:56,291 And time, it rolls right on 18 00:01:56,366 --> 00:01:59,290 And maybe what's good 19 00:01:59,369 --> 00:02:04,466 Gets a little bit better 20 00:02:07,294 --> 00:02:10,889 And maybe what's bad gets gone 21 00:02:18,138 --> 00:02:20,937 Yeah, it goes like it goes 22 00:02:21,016 --> 00:02:23,815 Like the river flows 23 00:02:23,894 --> 00:02:30,197 And time keeps rollin' on 24 00:02:30,275 --> 00:02:34,405 And maybe what's good 25 00:02:34,488 --> 00:02:40,416 Gets a little bit better 26 00:02:40,494 --> 00:02:46,342 And maybe what's bad 27 00:02:46,416 --> 00:02:53,391 Gets gone 28 00:04:15,589 --> 00:04:18,809 That's all you're eating for lunch? An apple? 29 00:04:18,884 --> 00:04:20,431 I'm dieting. 30 00:04:21,344 --> 00:04:23,847 I got to keep my strength up. 31 00:04:23,930 --> 00:04:27,025 I put these preserves up myself. 32 00:04:27,100 --> 00:04:30,855 Sunday, Russell and I put up over 60 quarts of peaches. 33 00:04:32,689 --> 00:04:35,738 What did you do over the weekend, Norma? 34 00:04:35,817 --> 00:04:37,740 I soaked my feet. 35 00:04:39,613 --> 00:04:41,911 I saw you in town Sunday. 36 00:04:43,116 --> 00:04:46,120 Your friend drives a mighty big car. 37 00:04:46,203 --> 00:04:51,130 If you'd looked on the motel register, you'd seen my name, too. 38 00:04:51,208 --> 00:04:53,631 It's none of my business. 39 00:04:57,506 --> 00:05:00,760 Mama, you haven't opened up your sack yet. 40 00:05:02,719 --> 00:05:05,563 Mama, aren't you hungry? 41 00:05:05,639 --> 00:05:07,061 Mama? 42 00:05:09,643 --> 00:05:12,317 Mama, you feeling all right? 43 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:16,570 Mama? 44 00:05:16,650 --> 00:05:19,073 Mama, can you hear me? 45 00:05:19,152 --> 00:05:20,278 Mama? 46 00:05:21,279 --> 00:05:22,906 Mama! 47 00:05:22,989 --> 00:05:24,957 Mama, come on. Come on. 48 00:05:37,379 --> 00:05:40,849 She didn't hear one word I said! 49 00:05:40,924 --> 00:05:43,552 You know that happens. 50 00:05:43,635 --> 00:05:46,809 Well, it doesn't happen to my mama! 51 00:05:46,888 --> 00:05:48,890 It'll pass off. It's just temporary. 52 00:05:48,974 --> 00:05:50,942 That makes it OK! 53 00:05:52,644 --> 00:05:54,521 She's only deaf all day! 54 00:05:54,604 --> 00:05:56,026 She can get another job. 55 00:05:56,106 --> 00:05:59,030 What other job in this town? 56 00:06:00,110 --> 00:06:01,578 I'll give her a note. 57 00:06:01,653 --> 00:06:03,371 They'll send her home. 58 00:06:03,446 --> 00:06:05,574 Come on, Mama. 59 00:06:05,657 --> 00:06:07,955 They don't care anything about you. 60 00:06:24,801 --> 00:06:26,394 You all right out there? 61 00:06:26,469 --> 00:06:27,812 I'm fine. 62 00:06:28,972 --> 00:06:31,100 You're going to get all bitten up. 63 00:06:31,182 --> 00:06:34,061 I'll be in. Just a minute. 64 00:06:40,817 --> 00:06:42,410 Well... 65 00:06:44,446 --> 00:06:47,450 I'm going to let this pot soak. 66 00:06:47,532 --> 00:06:50,411 There's one soaking from breakfast. 67 00:06:50,493 --> 00:06:52,416 Now it's got company. 68 00:06:55,832 --> 00:06:58,051 Hey, you kids. 69 00:06:58,126 --> 00:07:00,924 10 more minutes of this junk, then do your homework. 70 00:07:01,004 --> 00:07:02,972 I did it. 71 00:07:03,965 --> 00:07:06,809 Unsatisfactory in lettering and reading, 72 00:07:06,885 --> 00:07:08,603 and your numbers aren't too good. 73 00:07:08,678 --> 00:07:11,056 You haven't done much homework. 74 00:07:11,139 --> 00:07:13,813 - Shh! - Shush! I'll shush you. 75 00:07:28,031 --> 00:07:30,534 What are you getting fixed up for? 76 00:07:30,617 --> 00:07:32,460 I'm going into town. 77 00:07:32,535 --> 00:07:34,663 What do you need in town? 78 00:07:34,746 --> 00:07:36,168 Things. 79 00:07:36,247 --> 00:07:38,545 OK. I'll drive you in. 80 00:07:39,292 --> 00:07:41,169 You got Bonanza on next. 81 00:07:41,252 --> 00:07:45,223 I'll miss that. It's the same every week. 82 00:07:46,716 --> 00:07:47,968 I'm going to J.C. Penney's, 83 00:07:48,051 --> 00:07:52,807 buy myself some panties and a white cotton brassiere, size 32-B. 84 00:07:52,889 --> 00:07:55,938 If you want to sit outside the dressing room 85 00:07:56,017 --> 00:07:58,190 and have the ladies look at you, then come on. 86 00:07:58,269 --> 00:07:59,771 No, ma'am. 87 00:08:01,606 --> 00:08:03,404 You coming straight back? 88 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:04,826 No. 89 00:08:04,901 --> 00:08:06,153 I'm going to the drugstore, 90 00:08:06,236 --> 00:08:10,491 buy myself some Kotex pads and a Cosmopolitan magazine. 91 00:08:10,573 --> 00:08:13,577 Mm-hmm. Then you coming home? 92 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:17,790 Yeah. I'll be so tired from all the excitement, 93 00:08:17,872 --> 00:08:19,795 I'll be coming home. 94 00:08:27,257 --> 00:08:28,474 Hi. 95 00:08:29,509 --> 00:08:30,510 Mr. Witchard? 96 00:08:32,095 --> 00:08:33,688 That's right. Vernon Witchard. 97 00:08:33,763 --> 00:08:34,855 Who are you? 98 00:08:34,931 --> 00:08:36,604 My name is Reuben Warshovsky. 99 00:08:36,683 --> 00:08:39,436 Warshovsky. What kind of name is that? 100 00:08:40,353 --> 00:08:44,529 The kind you have to spell for telephone operators and headwaiters. 101 00:08:44,607 --> 00:08:46,575 What do you want? 102 00:08:46,651 --> 00:08:49,279 I'd like a room with a mill family. 103 00:08:49,362 --> 00:08:53,663 What for? We got a hotel, a motel with 36 rooms. 104 00:08:54,284 --> 00:08:58,005 I want to get to know some mill hands. 105 00:08:58,079 --> 00:08:59,706 Why is that? 106 00:08:59,789 --> 00:09:00,756 I'll tell you. 107 00:09:00,832 --> 00:09:04,086 I just got into town about an hour ago. 108 00:09:04,169 --> 00:09:06,763 Hi. How are you? 109 00:09:06,838 --> 00:09:12,561 Right away, the police chief was saying, "Who are you?" 110 00:09:12,635 --> 00:09:14,933 So I told him I'm a labor organizer. 111 00:09:15,930 --> 00:09:18,399 I've come to put a union in the OP. Henley Textile Mill. 112 00:09:18,475 --> 00:09:22,321 He said, "The hell you are, boy!" 113 00:09:22,395 --> 00:09:24,739 He was dead right. 114 00:09:24,814 --> 00:09:29,820 You people are Communists, agitators, crooks, or Jews, 115 00:09:29,903 --> 00:09:31,496 or all four rolled together. 116 00:09:31,946 --> 00:09:35,291 You make folks lose their jobs, 117 00:09:35,366 --> 00:09:36,788 get their heads busted... 118 00:09:36,868 --> 00:09:38,962 Excuse me, sir. 119 00:09:39,037 --> 00:09:41,790 How much do you make an hour? 120 00:09:41,873 --> 00:09:44,797 I make $1.33 a frame. 121 00:09:44,876 --> 00:09:47,049 When was your last cost-of-living raise? 122 00:09:47,128 --> 00:09:48,505 I haven't had that. 123 00:09:48,588 --> 00:09:51,262 With today's inflation, 124 00:09:51,341 --> 00:09:53,935 that makes you a schlemiel. 125 00:09:54,844 --> 00:09:57,438 You calling me some kind of name? 126 00:09:58,014 --> 00:10:00,858 You're underpaid. You're overworked. 127 00:10:00,934 --> 00:10:04,609 They're shafting you right up to your tonsils. 128 00:10:04,687 --> 00:10:07,110 You need me, sir. 129 00:10:07,190 --> 00:10:09,284 If you run real fast, 130 00:10:09,359 --> 00:10:12,829 you'll get to your car before my dog bites you. 131 00:10:12,904 --> 00:10:15,327 We ain't even got a dog. 132 00:10:15,406 --> 00:10:17,704 You don't need one. 133 00:10:37,303 --> 00:10:39,021 Hey. How you doing? 134 00:10:39,097 --> 00:10:40,314 Do you have any vacancies? 135 00:10:40,390 --> 00:10:42,313 Yes. 136 00:10:43,393 --> 00:10:44,861 Hi. 137 00:10:45,562 --> 00:10:46,814 Hey. 138 00:10:47,856 --> 00:10:50,484 Friendly little town you got here. 139 00:10:50,567 --> 00:10:51,819 So far I've been told 140 00:10:51,901 --> 00:10:55,451 to shove off, get off, and go away. 141 00:10:57,949 --> 00:10:59,917 Oh, it's OK. 142 00:11:00,827 --> 00:11:03,296 Make sure they spray your room for roaches. 143 00:11:03,371 --> 00:11:05,669 You got roaches down here? 144 00:11:05,748 --> 00:11:08,001 I'm very familiar with roaches. 145 00:11:08,918 --> 00:11:11,467 Do you have a room with a view? 146 00:11:11,546 --> 00:11:13,344 You got the back alley or the parking lot. 147 00:11:13,423 --> 00:11:15,016 Which? 148 00:11:15,091 --> 00:11:17,810 Back alley or parking lot? 149 00:11:17,886 --> 00:11:20,765 Give him 31, Alston. 150 00:11:20,847 --> 00:11:22,770 Can't hear the drunks from in there. 151 00:11:37,488 --> 00:11:41,034 I'll be back this way next Wednesday after dinner. 152 00:11:42,785 --> 00:11:45,208 I'm having dinner with my wife's folks. 153 00:11:45,288 --> 00:11:48,258 Tonight was the last time, George. 154 00:11:48,333 --> 00:11:50,176 You don't say, Norma Rae. 155 00:11:50,251 --> 00:11:53,721 Well, now, isn't that a surprising turn? 156 00:11:53,796 --> 00:11:57,391 No. Been coming on for some time. 157 00:11:58,843 --> 00:11:59,969 You know something funny? 158 00:12:00,053 --> 00:12:01,726 I didn't notice it. 159 00:12:01,804 --> 00:12:04,648 Didn't you get your steak dinner 160 00:12:04,724 --> 00:12:06,852 and your box of pralines? 161 00:12:07,602 --> 00:12:11,652 Didn't you come three times in a row in that bed over there? 162 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:12,823 I wasn't counting. 163 00:12:12,899 --> 00:12:14,492 Ha ha ha! 164 00:12:14,567 --> 00:12:16,444 Well, well, well. 165 00:12:17,695 --> 00:12:22,041 Looks like I don't know what it takes to satisfy you these days. 166 00:12:22,116 --> 00:12:25,416 It just doesn't sit well with me anymore, George. 167 00:12:25,495 --> 00:12:29,466 You got your wife, your two kids in high school. 168 00:12:30,541 --> 00:12:32,384 There's a lot of gossip. 169 00:12:32,460 --> 00:12:33,712 I got my two kids. 170 00:12:37,507 --> 00:12:39,180 I don't know. 171 00:12:40,134 --> 00:12:42,978 It just doesn't make me feel good. 172 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:46,395 You're here to make me feel good. 173 00:12:50,728 --> 00:12:52,651 I'm not trotting down here anymore. 174 00:12:52,730 --> 00:12:54,732 Why, you hick. 175 00:12:55,525 --> 00:12:58,278 You got dirt under your fingernails. 176 00:12:59,112 --> 00:13:02,787 You pick your teeth with a matchbook. 177 00:13:02,865 --> 00:13:05,960 What the hell are you good for, anyway? 178 00:13:06,035 --> 00:13:09,122 You come outta that factory, you wash under your armpits, 179 00:13:09,205 --> 00:13:11,963 you come on down here and spread your legs for a poke, 180 00:13:12,041 --> 00:13:13,884 and you're dumping me? 181 00:13:21,884 --> 00:13:23,477 I heard a hell of a thump. 182 00:13:23,553 --> 00:13:25,976 That was me, getting throwed across the room. 183 00:13:26,055 --> 00:13:28,524 I have some ice for that. 184 00:13:31,561 --> 00:13:33,529 Sit down. Please. 185 00:13:40,737 --> 00:13:42,705 You look all shook up. 186 00:13:44,407 --> 00:13:46,375 Here, put this on. 187 00:13:49,912 --> 00:13:54,088 I thought everybody down South was Ashley Wilkes. 188 00:13:54,167 --> 00:13:57,296 You lie down with dogs, you get fleas. 189 00:13:58,379 --> 00:14:00,882 Does this look broken to you? 190 00:14:00,965 --> 00:14:02,842 Go like this. 191 00:14:02,925 --> 00:14:04,677 No, I don't think so. 192 00:14:04,761 --> 00:14:06,229 Do you want aspirin? 193 00:14:06,304 --> 00:14:07,772 No, thanks. 194 00:14:07,847 --> 00:14:10,771 Band-Aid? Valium? 195 00:14:11,309 --> 00:14:13,061 You're a whole drugstore. 196 00:14:13,144 --> 00:14:14,566 I'm a mild hypochondriac. 197 00:14:14,645 --> 00:14:16,613 Keep that on it. 198 00:14:20,610 --> 00:14:21,782 Ohh. 199 00:14:24,280 --> 00:14:25,748 Me and men. 200 00:14:27,241 --> 00:14:30,536 I ought to learn to say no right from the start. 201 00:14:32,038 --> 00:14:35,508 But if it wasn't men, I don't know what it would be. 202 00:14:39,629 --> 00:14:41,097 You got a lot of books. 203 00:14:42,382 --> 00:14:45,010 I'm terrified I'll wake up in a motel room one morning 204 00:14:45,093 --> 00:14:48,518 and have nothing to read but the phone book. 205 00:14:49,597 --> 00:14:51,520 She got big eyes. 206 00:14:52,725 --> 00:14:56,187 Yeah, got a big brain, too. 207 00:14:58,231 --> 00:15:00,359 What's her name? 208 00:15:01,275 --> 00:15:03,277 Dorothy Finkelstein. 209 00:15:04,320 --> 00:15:07,324 She's a hotshot labor lawyer out of Harvard. 210 00:15:08,950 --> 00:15:12,412 She must be your girlfriend if you haul her picture around. 211 00:15:12,495 --> 00:15:15,248 We sleep together on Sunday mornings 212 00:15:15,331 --> 00:15:17,049 and read The New York Times. 213 00:15:17,125 --> 00:15:20,220 I guess that makes her my girlfriend. 214 00:15:24,465 --> 00:15:26,092 Hey. 215 00:15:27,969 --> 00:15:30,518 - I'm Norma Rae Wilson. - Reuben Warshovsky. 216 00:15:30,847 --> 00:15:31,894 Nice meeting you. 217 00:15:31,973 --> 00:15:35,227 My pleasure. Keep that on your nose. 218 00:15:35,309 --> 00:15:39,439 I'm sorry about my daddy. He got a short fuse. 219 00:15:39,522 --> 00:15:42,071 My credentials keep me out of a lot of places. 220 00:15:42,150 --> 00:15:44,369 But once in a while, 221 00:15:44,444 --> 00:15:48,119 someone puts me in their best bedroom 222 00:15:48,197 --> 00:15:50,450 and treats me like a cousin. 223 00:15:51,492 --> 00:15:53,745 - Ha ha ha! - What? 224 00:15:53,828 --> 00:15:56,707 That sure as heck wouldn't be my daddy! 225 00:16:00,209 --> 00:16:01,836 You a Jew? 226 00:16:01,919 --> 00:16:03,796 I beg your pardon? 227 00:16:03,880 --> 00:16:06,474 Are you a Jew? 228 00:16:06,549 --> 00:16:08,017 Born and bred. 229 00:16:11,053 --> 00:16:12,475 I never met a Jew before. 230 00:16:12,555 --> 00:16:14,523 How you doing? 231 00:16:19,562 --> 00:16:22,111 I heard you all had horns. 232 00:16:23,733 --> 00:16:26,657 Circumcised, yes. Horns, no. 233 00:16:28,654 --> 00:16:33,160 Well, as far as I can see, 234 00:16:33,242 --> 00:16:35,495 you don't look any different from the rest of us. 235 00:16:35,578 --> 00:16:37,296 Well, we are. 236 00:16:38,664 --> 00:16:42,009 Well, what makes you different? 237 00:16:42,084 --> 00:16:43,427 History. 238 00:16:44,587 --> 00:16:45,930 Oh. 239 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:49,308 You got it now? 240 00:16:51,219 --> 00:16:52,311 Hey, it looks better. 241 00:16:52,386 --> 00:16:54,309 I think it stopped. 242 00:16:58,476 --> 00:16:59,853 Thanks for the ice. 243 00:16:59,936 --> 00:17:01,108 Any time. 244 00:17:01,187 --> 00:17:03,406 Christ, I hope not. 245 00:17:04,524 --> 00:17:05,741 Good morning. 246 00:17:07,276 --> 00:17:09,950 I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. 247 00:17:12,448 --> 00:17:15,042 Read this when you have a chance, on your break. 248 00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:17,870 Thank you. Good morning. 249 00:17:19,622 --> 00:17:21,374 Read this when you have a chance, please. 250 00:17:21,457 --> 00:17:22,458 Thank you. 251 00:17:22,542 --> 00:17:24,215 Here you go. 252 00:17:25,419 --> 00:17:27,467 Good morning. 253 00:17:27,547 --> 00:17:29,424 Read this when you have a chance. 254 00:17:29,507 --> 00:17:32,602 I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. 255 00:17:33,928 --> 00:17:37,774 Read this when you have a chance. 256 00:17:37,848 --> 00:17:40,021 Read this on your break. 257 00:17:41,561 --> 00:17:44,064 Want to read this when you can, please? 258 00:17:44,146 --> 00:17:46,899 I'm from the Textile Workers' Union of America. 259 00:17:46,983 --> 00:17:50,328 You want to read this when you have a chance? 260 00:17:53,364 --> 00:17:54,581 Good morning. 261 00:17:56,659 --> 00:17:58,787 You want to read this when you get home, please? 262 00:17:58,869 --> 00:18:02,624 I'm with the Textile Workers' Union of America. 263 00:18:02,707 --> 00:18:05,176 Read this on your break. 264 00:18:06,168 --> 00:18:08,421 Good morning! 265 00:18:08,504 --> 00:18:10,006 How's your nose? 266 00:18:10,089 --> 00:18:12,091 Read that on your break. 267 00:18:13,009 --> 00:18:15,683 There's too many big words. 268 00:18:15,761 --> 00:18:19,190 If I don't understand it, they ain't gonna understand it. 269 00:18:20,099 --> 00:18:21,817 That fellow your friend, Norma? 270 00:18:21,892 --> 00:18:23,439 He's getting to be. 271 00:18:23,519 --> 00:18:27,274 - Better hurry. You'll be late. - I don't care if I get there tomorrow. 272 00:18:28,566 --> 00:18:29,613 If you have questions, 273 00:18:29,692 --> 00:18:32,491 I'm at the Golden Cherry Motel, room 31. 274 00:18:33,279 --> 00:18:36,954 Don't be late for work, now, folks. 275 00:18:37,033 --> 00:18:39,001 Good morning. 276 00:18:42,538 --> 00:18:45,382 The lady wants to go to work. 277 00:18:45,458 --> 00:18:47,381 I'll catch you later. 278 00:18:52,548 --> 00:18:55,722 One of you guys shows up about every four years, 279 00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,395 about the same time we get the locusts. 280 00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:00,606 What's your name? 281 00:19:02,016 --> 00:19:04,235 My name's Jimmy Jerome Davis. 282 00:19:04,310 --> 00:19:08,611 We got six boss men in civil contempt. 283 00:19:08,689 --> 00:19:10,691 Would you care to make it seven? 284 00:19:10,775 --> 00:19:14,496 Why, hell, we plaster the toilets with them things. 285 00:19:16,989 --> 00:19:18,787 Want to read this on your break? 286 00:19:20,951 --> 00:19:22,498 Asshole. 287 00:19:35,341 --> 00:19:39,346 I already told him I wouldn't go out to dinner. What's he want now? 288 00:19:39,428 --> 00:19:43,103 Maybe he wants to make it breakfast, Norma Rae. 289 00:19:58,114 --> 00:20:00,708 Whatever it is, I didn't do it. 290 00:20:00,783 --> 00:20:04,083 You got the biggest mouth in this mill. 291 00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:08,041 "Give us a longer break, more smoking time. 292 00:20:08,124 --> 00:20:10,798 "Give us a Kotex pad machine." 293 00:20:11,460 --> 00:20:13,258 Do it, and I'll shut up. 294 00:20:15,715 --> 00:20:20,390 The only way to close that mouth is to promote you. 295 00:20:20,469 --> 00:20:22,938 You're going up in the world, honey. 296 00:20:23,013 --> 00:20:25,812 Yeah? How far for how much? 297 00:20:26,809 --> 00:20:30,939 Well, we're going to put you on spot-checking. 298 00:20:33,649 --> 00:20:36,152 Well, hell, it sure ain't gonna make me any friends. 299 00:20:36,569 --> 00:20:39,197 It'll make you another $1.50 an hour. 300 00:21:47,056 --> 00:21:48,558 How am I doing, little girl? 301 00:21:49,016 --> 00:21:51,394 You doin' good, Daddy. 302 00:21:52,144 --> 00:21:55,273 I think you better try to speed it up, if you can. 303 00:21:55,356 --> 00:21:57,199 I'm going as fast as I can. 304 00:21:57,858 --> 00:21:59,860 Yeah. 305 00:21:59,944 --> 00:22:02,322 Well, they're watching me. 306 00:22:02,404 --> 00:22:04,532 They're watching you. 307 00:22:27,763 --> 00:22:29,686 Well, what, you're sore at me? 308 00:22:29,765 --> 00:22:33,360 You shouldn't push your own daddy. 309 00:22:33,435 --> 00:22:35,688 I need the money for my kids. 310 00:22:35,771 --> 00:22:38,490 Well, I don't need it from my kid. 311 00:22:53,122 --> 00:22:54,965 Millie! Craig! 312 00:22:55,040 --> 00:22:57,964 What are you doing in Grandma's marigolds? 313 00:22:58,043 --> 00:22:59,465 Get up! 314 00:22:59,545 --> 00:23:00,671 I don't want to. 315 00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:03,098 You do it anyway! 316 00:23:03,173 --> 00:23:04,641 You're filthy! 317 00:23:05,301 --> 00:23:07,269 I asked you to watch him. 318 00:23:07,344 --> 00:23:09,438 Criminy! I cleaned you up once! 319 00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:17,734 Come on! Right in here now. 320 00:23:17,813 --> 00:23:20,066 That's it. 321 00:23:20,149 --> 00:23:23,073 Come on, Steve! Come on, Steve! 322 00:23:23,152 --> 00:23:24,620 Come on! 323 00:23:35,331 --> 00:23:38,210 All right! They made it! 324 00:23:38,292 --> 00:23:40,465 He's got an arm on him! 325 00:23:40,544 --> 00:23:41,841 Woo! 326 00:23:41,921 --> 00:23:43,719 Hey, you want something? 327 00:23:44,965 --> 00:23:47,684 Get me a hot dog, lots of relish. 328 00:23:48,093 --> 00:23:50,312 - Woo! - All right! 329 00:23:52,097 --> 00:23:53,770 Can I have a hot dog, please? 330 00:23:53,849 --> 00:23:55,601 OK. 331 00:23:55,684 --> 00:23:57,402 Thank you. 332 00:23:58,103 --> 00:24:00,572 Hi, Wilma. Can I have two dogs? 333 00:24:00,648 --> 00:24:02,821 OK. Just a minute. 334 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:04,868 Hi. How you doing? 335 00:24:05,569 --> 00:24:06,661 You enjoying the game? 336 00:24:06,737 --> 00:24:09,707 Oh, yeah. I love the shortstop. 337 00:24:11,367 --> 00:24:13,540 Scouts are looking at him. 338 00:24:15,871 --> 00:24:19,125 What's the matter? You don't like it? 339 00:24:19,208 --> 00:24:22,963 This isn't a hot dog. 340 00:24:23,045 --> 00:24:24,718 What's in this thing? 341 00:24:24,797 --> 00:24:27,767 Lots of things you don't want to know about. 342 00:24:27,841 --> 00:24:29,764 Excuse me a minute. 343 00:24:38,602 --> 00:24:40,570 Hello, Norma. 344 00:24:41,730 --> 00:24:43,152 Hey, Ellis. 345 00:24:43,232 --> 00:24:44,984 You're looking fine. 346 00:24:45,067 --> 00:24:47,536 I'm always fine. I'm a horse. 347 00:24:49,822 --> 00:24:51,074 You changed your hair. 348 00:24:51,699 --> 00:24:53,451 It grew. 349 00:24:55,411 --> 00:24:57,038 How's Craig? 350 00:24:57,830 --> 00:24:59,673 He lost a tooth. 351 00:25:00,666 --> 00:25:02,339 It wouldn't hurt if you came by 352 00:25:02,418 --> 00:25:05,638 to see him every now and then. 353 00:25:05,713 --> 00:25:08,512 I don't believe I can do that, Norma. 354 00:25:08,590 --> 00:25:13,266 Well, suit yourself. You always have. 355 00:25:22,771 --> 00:25:24,114 Give me a Coke. 356 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:25,315 You want a Coke? 357 00:25:25,399 --> 00:25:26,400 Yeah. 358 00:25:26,483 --> 00:25:27,951 Two, please. 359 00:25:29,028 --> 00:25:31,406 Here, this is for hers. 360 00:25:31,488 --> 00:25:32,614 All right. 361 00:25:32,698 --> 00:25:34,450 Keep the change. 362 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:36,623 Here you go. 363 00:25:39,038 --> 00:25:41,006 I climbed into the backseat of his Cadillac 364 00:25:41,081 --> 00:25:43,049 one rainy night six years ago, 365 00:25:43,125 --> 00:25:44,672 stuck my feet out the back window, 366 00:25:44,752 --> 00:25:48,677 and got little Craig off that Southern gentleman. 367 00:25:50,007 --> 00:25:53,136 He ain't done nothin' worthwhile since. 368 00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:55,141 Did you get married? 369 00:25:55,971 --> 00:25:58,850 He didn't bother. I didn't bother. 370 00:26:00,642 --> 00:26:02,736 My first affair, as I recollect it, 371 00:26:02,811 --> 00:26:05,906 was with my Hungarian piano teacher. 372 00:26:05,981 --> 00:26:07,233 I was playing Smetana. 373 00:26:07,316 --> 00:26:09,569 She put her head in my lap. 374 00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:11,949 I played the hell out of that. 375 00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:17,497 Next thing I knew, we were in her bedroom. 376 00:26:18,452 --> 00:26:20,955 Her husband came home and found us. 377 00:26:21,038 --> 00:26:23,166 The poor guy burst into tears. 378 00:26:23,248 --> 00:26:28,596 I said, "Hey, man, I'm sorry," 379 00:26:28,670 --> 00:26:32,174 and we all went into the kitchen and had a glass of tea. 380 00:26:35,094 --> 00:26:38,940 I'm always hassling with some other guy. 381 00:26:39,014 --> 00:26:41,108 That's how it seems. 382 00:26:41,183 --> 00:26:43,686 What do you think of me, I wonder. 383 00:26:45,020 --> 00:26:48,866 I think you're too smart for what's happening to you. 384 00:27:11,463 --> 00:27:12,885 I'm over here now. 385 00:27:14,174 --> 00:27:16,302 I got the jump on you! 386 00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:24,310 Come on, lady. Come on, come on, come on! 387 00:27:24,393 --> 00:27:26,737 Mark me down. Mark me down. 388 00:27:27,771 --> 00:27:28,818 I'm over here now, lady! 389 00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:29,944 Come on! 390 00:27:30,023 --> 00:27:31,821 I'm over here. 391 00:27:34,444 --> 00:27:36,162 Hey. lady! 392 00:27:36,238 --> 00:27:37,410 What you waiting for, girl? 393 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:39,912 I'm over here now. 394 00:27:42,619 --> 00:27:44,496 Come on, lady. 395 00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:46,548 I'm over here now. 396 00:27:47,666 --> 00:27:50,340 Come on, lady. Come on. 397 00:27:50,419 --> 00:27:51,511 You damn fool! 398 00:27:51,587 --> 00:27:54,682 You'll get us both to lose our jobs! 399 00:28:02,306 --> 00:28:04,274 I'll get it. 400 00:28:10,814 --> 00:28:12,282 Hey. 401 00:28:19,114 --> 00:28:20,206 I won't trouble you. 402 00:28:20,282 --> 00:28:22,330 I just came to apologize. 403 00:28:22,409 --> 00:28:24,628 I know I could have lost you your job today. 404 00:28:27,456 --> 00:28:29,800 You sure went crazy on me. 405 00:28:29,875 --> 00:28:31,343 I know. 406 00:28:32,461 --> 00:28:35,180 I got handed divorce papers this morning. 407 00:28:35,255 --> 00:28:37,974 I guess I went off my head. 408 00:28:47,976 --> 00:28:49,944 Well, 409 00:28:52,564 --> 00:28:53,907 things can get to you. 410 00:28:58,904 --> 00:29:01,578 Would you come and have a drink with me? 411 00:29:01,657 --> 00:29:05,082 Just to make up for the ruckus. 412 00:29:06,662 --> 00:29:08,756 I'm Sonny Webster. 413 00:29:09,873 --> 00:29:12,046 You used to come in my mama's bakery. 414 00:29:19,716 --> 00:29:21,263 Sonny Webster? 415 00:29:22,177 --> 00:29:24,600 Sonny Webster! I remember you. 416 00:29:24,680 --> 00:29:29,311 You stood behind the cash register and gave everybody the wrong change. 417 00:29:29,393 --> 00:29:30,940 I never was too good at math. 418 00:29:31,019 --> 00:29:32,646 You're telling me! 419 00:29:32,729 --> 00:29:35,278 Sonny Webster! Golly! 420 00:29:37,484 --> 00:29:39,327 How about that drink? 421 00:29:41,321 --> 00:29:42,914 OK. 422 00:29:42,990 --> 00:29:44,867 Just wait one minute. 423 00:29:51,623 --> 00:29:53,216 I heard a man's voice. 424 00:29:54,501 --> 00:29:55,548 I'm going out with him. 425 00:29:55,627 --> 00:29:57,300 Where did you meet him? 426 00:29:57,379 --> 00:29:59,256 Just now, on the front porch. 427 00:30:01,925 --> 00:30:03,177 You're not going out. 428 00:30:03,260 --> 00:30:05,729 Daddy, I'm over 21. 429 00:30:05,804 --> 00:30:08,148 Let me say some names to you. 430 00:30:08,223 --> 00:30:12,944 Buddy Wilson, Ellis Harper, George Benson, a U.S. sailor. 431 00:30:14,563 --> 00:30:18,321 None of which is looking after you, as far as I can see. 432 00:30:18,400 --> 00:30:20,448 It's my roof, my food. 433 00:30:20,527 --> 00:30:23,451 You're always trying to keep men off me. 434 00:30:23,905 --> 00:30:28,376 Be grateful for your daddy's love. 435 00:30:28,452 --> 00:30:30,705 You're loving me to death. 436 00:30:32,205 --> 00:30:36,756 My needs are very much alive 437 00:30:38,420 --> 00:30:42,220 Is it OK if I stop by 438 00:30:44,426 --> 00:30:47,646 It's all wrong, but it's all right 439 00:30:47,763 --> 00:30:51,108 It's all wrong, but it's all right 440 00:30:51,183 --> 00:30:53,606 God darn, that lady can sing. 441 00:30:54,603 --> 00:30:56,571 And her words are so true. 442 00:30:56,646 --> 00:30:58,819 I like Elvis myself. 443 00:30:58,899 --> 00:31:03,200 I wish I could make lots of money by just wailing. 444 00:31:03,278 --> 00:31:04,655 That don't necessarily make them happy. 445 00:31:04,738 --> 00:31:07,617 What does? What does? What does? 446 00:31:07,699 --> 00:31:10,794 A man and a woman is about your best chance. 447 00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:15,090 Didn't you tell me you got a gun, 448 00:31:15,165 --> 00:31:19,636 and you was gonna shoot your wife? 449 00:31:19,711 --> 00:31:22,590 I was gonna burn them both down, 450 00:31:22,672 --> 00:31:26,267 her and her boyfriend, 451 00:31:26,343 --> 00:31:28,311 but I couldn't. 452 00:31:30,472 --> 00:31:35,228 She was a real good person when we went to school. 453 00:31:35,310 --> 00:31:38,780 But then a change had come over her. 454 00:31:40,690 --> 00:31:42,818 It still really amazes me. 455 00:31:44,152 --> 00:31:45,620 Listen. 456 00:31:47,614 --> 00:31:50,538 I'm a lot different from what I was. 457 00:31:50,617 --> 00:31:53,541 I mean, you go through things. 458 00:31:56,081 --> 00:31:57,173 Hey! 459 00:31:57,249 --> 00:31:58,296 Hey! 460 00:31:58,375 --> 00:32:00,469 New York! Hey, man! 461 00:32:00,544 --> 00:32:02,546 Hey, buddy! 462 00:32:03,338 --> 00:32:04,430 Come on over here! 463 00:32:04,506 --> 00:32:05,883 We need anybody else? 464 00:32:05,966 --> 00:32:07,092 The more the merrier. 465 00:32:07,175 --> 00:32:08,643 Reuben! 466 00:32:10,637 --> 00:32:13,516 Here you are with your papers! 467 00:32:13,598 --> 00:32:14,724 Come on over. 468 00:32:14,808 --> 00:32:16,856 Come on, Reuben. 469 00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:18,608 Reuben, meet Sonny. 470 00:32:18,687 --> 00:32:20,564 Sonny, this is Reuben Warbershovsky. 471 00:32:20,647 --> 00:32:23,150 Close! How are you? 472 00:32:23,233 --> 00:32:25,110 Sit down! Take a load off. 473 00:32:26,695 --> 00:32:28,538 What are you doing here? 474 00:32:28,613 --> 00:32:29,705 I'm working. 475 00:32:29,781 --> 00:32:31,408 Working? 476 00:32:31,491 --> 00:32:33,243 This is a drinking place. 477 00:32:34,327 --> 00:32:35,920 Can I pour you out one? 478 00:32:35,996 --> 00:32:38,590 I'll just have some plain seltzer. 479 00:32:38,665 --> 00:32:42,010 You're just drinking club soda? 480 00:32:42,085 --> 00:32:45,885 You'll feel a whole lot better than I will tomorrow morning. 481 00:32:47,048 --> 00:32:51,474 Reuben's trying to put a union in the mill. 482 00:32:51,553 --> 00:32:53,897 But there ain't never been one. 483 00:32:53,972 --> 00:32:56,270 Then maybe its time has come. 484 00:32:57,517 --> 00:33:01,897 There better be more than one of you, 'cause there's more than one of them. 485 00:33:02,731 --> 00:33:04,233 There will be. 486 00:33:05,066 --> 00:33:08,570 Those big companies get everything they want. 487 00:33:08,653 --> 00:33:10,246 You getting tired of it? 488 00:33:12,073 --> 00:33:15,998 Oh, when I do, I just wash it down with a beer. 489 00:33:16,077 --> 00:33:19,331 We never really got right down to talkin' 490 00:33:19,414 --> 00:33:21,382 Hey, you know what? 491 00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:26,843 This song on the jukebox 492 00:33:26,922 --> 00:33:30,426 was on the radio the night they called me up 493 00:33:30,509 --> 00:33:32,029 and told me my husband had been killed 494 00:33:32,093 --> 00:33:34,312 in a fight in a beer joint. 495 00:33:35,388 --> 00:33:37,857 I knew Buddy Wilson in high school. 496 00:33:37,933 --> 00:33:39,901 You did? 497 00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:45,032 Yeah. Goll! 498 00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:49,528 He was drunk, and he got in a fight, 499 00:33:49,611 --> 00:33:52,080 and he broke a beer bottle. 500 00:33:52,155 --> 00:33:56,080 And then this other guy, he had a broken beer bottle, too. 501 00:33:57,118 --> 00:34:00,497 I went down to the funeral parlor 502 00:34:00,580 --> 00:34:02,207 because I wanted to see him. 503 00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:07,672 This old guy says I shouldn't see Buddy 504 00:34:07,754 --> 00:34:10,177 because he wasn't "prepared" yet. 505 00:34:12,968 --> 00:34:14,060 I don't know. 506 00:34:14,135 --> 00:34:17,856 I really just wanted to see him, 507 00:34:17,931 --> 00:34:20,525 and my daddy wouldn't let me. 508 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:32,404 Well, that were the end of Buddy. 509 00:34:33,572 --> 00:34:35,540 Far as that goes. 510 00:34:52,882 --> 00:34:53,974 I'm going to drive. 511 00:34:54,050 --> 00:34:55,176 I'll drive. 512 00:34:57,387 --> 00:34:58,513 No, I'll drive. 513 00:34:58,597 --> 00:35:00,770 No, no, gang. 514 00:35:00,849 --> 00:35:02,351 This way. 515 00:35:07,856 --> 00:35:11,861 I'm coming home with two men. 516 00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:15,447 That will surprise the hell out of my daddy. 517 00:35:15,530 --> 00:35:17,908 He sure keeps a close watch on you. 518 00:35:17,991 --> 00:35:20,335 Yeah. We're close. 519 00:35:21,369 --> 00:35:24,714 He used to drive 250 miles 520 00:35:24,789 --> 00:35:27,838 to take me down to Crescent Beach. 521 00:35:28,877 --> 00:35:33,098 He'd buy me a chicken dinner. 522 00:35:33,173 --> 00:35:35,141 We'd sleep in the back of the car. 523 00:35:35,216 --> 00:35:38,811 We'd wake up that morning and walk out on the sand. 524 00:35:38,887 --> 00:35:41,515 He bought me this ring. 525 00:35:43,016 --> 00:35:44,484 Reuben, would you pull the car over? 526 00:35:44,559 --> 00:35:46,732 I think I'm going to be sick. 527 00:35:50,231 --> 00:35:51,653 Hang on. 528 00:35:52,567 --> 00:35:54,365 Easy, easy. 529 00:35:56,279 --> 00:35:57,997 You OK? 530 00:35:58,073 --> 00:35:59,370 Come on. 531 00:36:00,742 --> 00:36:04,087 I'd help, Norma, but I think I'd give it up, too. 532 00:36:15,632 --> 00:36:18,351 That was real ladylike of me. 533 00:36:18,426 --> 00:36:21,771 I did bedpans one summer at Stuyvesant Hospital. 534 00:36:23,598 --> 00:36:27,068 One of these days, I'll get myself together. 535 00:36:27,143 --> 00:36:28,360 Well, make it soon. 536 00:36:28,436 --> 00:36:32,278 Because one of these days, I'm going to start in on you. 537 00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:40,536 Read this when you can. 538 00:36:40,615 --> 00:36:43,209 Got it down to two syllables. 539 00:36:43,284 --> 00:36:45,036 One's better. 540 00:36:45,120 --> 00:36:46,542 Good morning. Good morning. 541 00:36:46,621 --> 00:36:49,625 Read this when you have a chance, please. 542 00:36:50,625 --> 00:36:52,844 Good morning, Norma Rae. 543 00:37:01,261 --> 00:37:03,184 Hey, Lucius. 544 00:37:18,570 --> 00:37:20,493 Morning, Linette. 545 00:37:22,157 --> 00:37:23,579 Linette? 546 00:37:36,296 --> 00:37:38,219 Hey, Billy Jo. 547 00:37:45,430 --> 00:37:48,684 What the hell is going on around here? 548 00:37:50,518 --> 00:37:52,771 I'm talking to you! 549 00:37:54,272 --> 00:37:55,865 Fink. 550 00:37:57,358 --> 00:37:58,780 Well, shit! 551 00:38:11,414 --> 00:38:13,508 Nobody's talking to me. 552 00:38:13,583 --> 00:38:15,802 Less talk, more work. 553 00:38:15,877 --> 00:38:18,175 They're my friends. 554 00:38:18,254 --> 00:38:20,552 I'm quitting. 555 00:38:20,632 --> 00:38:22,760 You're speeding them up so you can weed them out. 556 00:38:22,842 --> 00:38:25,186 You knew all that. 557 00:38:27,680 --> 00:38:31,935 Yeah. I was greedy, and I was dumb. 558 00:38:32,018 --> 00:38:34,146 You can fire me. 559 00:38:34,229 --> 00:38:39,076 We'll put you back in the weaving room. 560 00:38:39,150 --> 00:38:42,324 Your family's been with this mill a long time. 561 00:39:18,064 --> 00:39:19,407 Good morning! 562 00:39:19,482 --> 00:39:20,984 Morning. 563 00:39:21,734 --> 00:39:22,735 Hey. 564 00:39:22,819 --> 00:39:23,945 Hey. 565 00:39:24,904 --> 00:39:26,781 We're all ready. 566 00:39:26,865 --> 00:39:27,957 All of you? 567 00:39:28,867 --> 00:39:30,869 All three of us. 568 00:39:33,496 --> 00:39:35,498 Well, then, everybody hop in. 569 00:39:35,582 --> 00:39:38,586 Millie, you can climb in yourself. 570 00:39:38,668 --> 00:39:40,887 Now, be careful. Don't fall down. 571 00:39:40,962 --> 00:39:42,259 What's your name, big guy? 572 00:39:42,338 --> 00:39:43,430 Craig. 573 00:39:44,799 --> 00:39:47,302 Put your feet on the floor! 574 00:39:48,636 --> 00:39:49,728 Bye! 575 00:39:49,804 --> 00:39:51,397 Bye, Mama. 576 00:39:51,472 --> 00:39:53,065 Bye, Grandma! 577 00:39:56,561 --> 00:39:58,484 I want to sit up front. 578 00:39:59,522 --> 00:40:01,069 Are we there yet? 579 00:40:01,149 --> 00:40:03,868 No, you silly willy. 580 00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:07,076 We just started off. 581 00:40:07,155 --> 00:40:08,748 I thought we were going to the lake. 582 00:40:08,823 --> 00:40:11,201 I got to make a stop. 583 00:40:11,284 --> 00:40:14,254 You should have done that before we started. 584 00:40:19,292 --> 00:40:21,215 This is Alice. 585 00:40:22,420 --> 00:40:24,013 She's mine. 586 00:40:27,675 --> 00:40:30,724 Like I always say, the more the merrier. 587 00:40:33,056 --> 00:40:35,434 OK, watch what you're doing now. 588 00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:47,074 Next time, you get up there yourself. 589 00:40:48,404 --> 00:40:51,283 You're sure easy with your kids. 590 00:40:51,366 --> 00:40:52,959 I yell at them. 591 00:40:53,034 --> 00:40:54,581 I swat them. 592 00:40:56,955 --> 00:40:58,878 You're a pretty woman. 593 00:40:59,958 --> 00:41:03,511 I was good at 18, but things have slipped and slid. 594 00:41:03,586 --> 00:41:06,089 You look all right to me. 595 00:41:06,172 --> 00:41:08,800 Keep the lights low, I'm all right. 596 00:41:08,883 --> 00:41:12,103 I'll take you where it's dark. 597 00:41:12,762 --> 00:41:14,184 I've been there. 598 00:41:31,280 --> 00:41:33,658 I don't owe a nickel in this town. 599 00:41:33,741 --> 00:41:35,459 I'll eat anything put in front of me. 600 00:41:35,535 --> 00:41:37,788 I can fix anything electrical. 601 00:41:38,871 --> 00:41:40,873 I'm all right after my first cup of coffee. 602 00:41:40,957 --> 00:41:42,959 I want that bad, though. 603 00:41:44,419 --> 00:41:47,013 I got me a new job at the gas station. 604 00:41:47,088 --> 00:41:50,809 I turn my paycheck over every Friday, 605 00:41:50,883 --> 00:41:53,181 and I come straight home from work, 606 00:41:53,261 --> 00:41:56,185 and I stay there. 607 00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:59,268 Me and Alice, we're alone. 608 00:42:00,852 --> 00:42:02,149 You got your two kids. 609 00:42:02,228 --> 00:42:03,605 You're alone. 610 00:42:06,315 --> 00:42:09,694 If you could help me, 611 00:42:09,777 --> 00:42:11,450 maybe I could help you. 612 00:42:14,490 --> 00:42:17,664 It's been a long time between offers. 613 00:42:24,459 --> 00:42:26,382 Kiss me. 614 00:42:27,045 --> 00:42:30,219 If that's all right, 615 00:42:30,298 --> 00:42:32,471 then everything else will be. 616 00:42:58,659 --> 00:43:02,247 By the authority vested in me, by this sovereign state, 617 00:43:02,330 --> 00:43:05,129 I pronounce you man and wife. 618 00:43:05,208 --> 00:43:08,178 If you like, you may kiss the bride. 619 00:43:17,678 --> 00:43:20,894 Mother over here has a little homemade wine for us. 620 00:43:20,973 --> 00:43:23,476 I picked the berries myself. 621 00:43:23,559 --> 00:43:25,527 Thank you. 622 00:43:31,943 --> 00:43:34,116 To my wife Norma Rae. 623 00:43:35,113 --> 00:43:36,865 And, uh... 624 00:43:38,157 --> 00:43:40,876 I just hope I can keep up with her. 625 00:43:54,132 --> 00:43:57,636 Roscoe doesn't like it, but I'm going. 626 00:43:57,718 --> 00:44:00,722 I'm not asking anybody. I'm going. 627 00:44:21,242 --> 00:44:26,999 On October 8, 1970, my grandfather, 628 00:44:27,081 --> 00:44:30,676 Isaac Abraham Warshovsky, age 87, 629 00:44:30,751 --> 00:44:32,753 died in his sleep in New York City. 630 00:44:34,130 --> 00:44:38,681 On the following Friday morning, his funeral was held. 631 00:44:38,759 --> 00:44:40,978 My mother and father attended, 632 00:44:41,053 --> 00:44:43,977 my two uncles from Brooklyn attended, 633 00:44:44,056 --> 00:44:46,775 and my Aunt Minnie came up from Florida. 634 00:44:47,935 --> 00:44:50,688 Also present were 862 members 635 00:44:50,771 --> 00:44:52,523 of the amalgamated Clothing Workers 636 00:44:52,607 --> 00:44:56,578 and the Cloth, Hat, and Cap Makers' Union of America. 637 00:44:56,652 --> 00:44:58,871 Also members of his family. 638 00:45:00,448 --> 00:45:04,498 In death, as in life, they stood at his side. 639 00:45:04,577 --> 00:45:07,956 They had fought battles with him, 640 00:45:08,039 --> 00:45:12,545 had earned bread together, and had broken it together. 641 00:45:12,627 --> 00:45:16,006 When they spoke, they spoke in one voice, 642 00:45:16,088 --> 00:45:18,887 and they were heard. 643 00:45:18,966 --> 00:45:20,968 And they were black, and they were white. 644 00:45:21,052 --> 00:45:22,725 They were Irish, and they were Polish. 645 00:45:22,803 --> 00:45:25,773 They were Catholic, and they were Jews. 646 00:45:25,848 --> 00:45:28,317 And they were one. 647 00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:31,646 That's what a union is, one. 648 00:45:34,440 --> 00:45:38,195 Ladies and gentlemen, the textile industry, 649 00:45:38,277 --> 00:45:41,872 in which you are spending your lives, 650 00:45:41,948 --> 00:45:44,042 and in which your children and their children 651 00:45:44,116 --> 00:45:46,619 will spend their lives, 652 00:45:46,702 --> 00:45:50,957 is the only industry in these United States 653 00:45:51,040 --> 00:45:52,667 that is not unionized. 654 00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,755 They are free to exploit you 655 00:45:56,837 --> 00:46:00,091 and to take away what is rightfully yours. 656 00:46:00,174 --> 00:46:04,771 Your health, a decent wage, a fit place to work. 657 00:46:07,223 --> 00:46:09,066 I urge you to stop them 658 00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:12,486 by coming over to room 31 at the Golden Cherry Motel 659 00:46:12,561 --> 00:46:15,906 to pick up a union card and sign it. 660 00:46:17,191 --> 00:46:20,240 Yes, it comes from the Bible. 661 00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:24,415 "According to the tribes of your fathers, 662 00:46:24,490 --> 00:46:27,414 "ye shall inherit." 663 00:46:27,493 --> 00:46:30,588 But it comes from Reuben Warshovsky, 664 00:46:30,663 --> 00:46:33,462 "Not unless you make it happen." 665 00:46:36,627 --> 00:46:38,049 Thank you. 666 00:46:44,385 --> 00:46:45,853 Thank you, Reverend. 667 00:46:45,928 --> 00:46:47,521 Appreciate it. 668 00:46:48,806 --> 00:46:51,480 Everybody should have come. 669 00:46:51,559 --> 00:46:52,560 Next time. 670 00:46:52,643 --> 00:46:55,112 If I have to drag them. 671 00:46:55,187 --> 00:46:57,110 Hey. 672 00:46:58,274 --> 00:46:59,651 When are you going to join? 673 00:46:59,734 --> 00:47:00,986 Who's got the time? 674 00:47:01,068 --> 00:47:03,036 Make the time. 675 00:47:03,112 --> 00:47:05,080 I need help. 676 00:47:09,785 --> 00:47:14,541 I appreciate any help you can give me. 677 00:47:14,623 --> 00:47:18,503 Licking stamps, stuffing envelopes, typing with two fingers, anything. 678 00:47:18,586 --> 00:47:20,338 I'll show up. 679 00:47:35,811 --> 00:47:37,358 I'm here. 680 00:47:37,438 --> 00:47:39,782 I'm ready to inspect your plant. 681 00:47:41,609 --> 00:47:43,452 The federal government, 682 00:47:43,527 --> 00:47:46,781 in accordance with federal court order 7778, 683 00:47:46,864 --> 00:47:49,640 states the following, "The union has the right to inspect 684 00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,119 "every bulletin board in the mills at least once a week 685 00:47:52,203 --> 00:47:55,958 "to verify that its notices are not being stripped off." 686 00:47:59,668 --> 00:48:00,715 Do you have a trash can? 687 00:48:00,795 --> 00:48:01,967 Inside. 688 00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:07,393 Keep America beautiful. 689 00:48:07,468 --> 00:48:09,266 Downstairs. 690 00:48:23,609 --> 00:48:25,202 Thank you. 691 00:48:34,286 --> 00:48:35,503 Morning. 692 00:48:43,629 --> 00:48:44,721 Morning. 693 00:48:44,797 --> 00:48:47,266 Am I moving too quick for you? 694 00:48:47,341 --> 00:48:49,139 I did my running in the army. 695 00:48:49,218 --> 00:48:50,970 I'm not in the army now, brother. 696 00:48:51,053 --> 00:48:54,686 If you're out of shape, I'll slow down. 697 00:48:56,517 --> 00:48:58,645 Keep it to a basic saunter. 698 00:49:05,317 --> 00:49:06,739 Good morning. 699 00:49:06,819 --> 00:49:10,574 I'm Reuben Warshovsky of the Textile Workers' Union. 700 00:49:10,656 --> 00:49:12,124 What is your name, brother? 701 00:49:12,199 --> 00:49:14,042 Buffum. 702 00:49:14,952 --> 00:49:16,795 How long have you worked here? 703 00:49:16,871 --> 00:49:18,544 Twelve years. 704 00:49:19,248 --> 00:49:21,967 Do you like your job? 705 00:49:22,042 --> 00:49:23,589 I'd like to keep it. 706 00:49:24,712 --> 00:49:28,467 You're interfering with the work. 707 00:49:28,549 --> 00:49:31,143 Court order says you can't do that. 708 00:49:31,218 --> 00:49:33,141 Well, then, brother, let us both keep 709 00:49:33,220 --> 00:49:35,939 to the letter of the law. 710 00:49:36,015 --> 00:49:38,518 I ain't got no kike brother. 711 00:49:40,060 --> 00:49:41,983 You didn't mean that. 712 00:49:42,062 --> 00:49:44,064 I meant it. 713 00:49:44,148 --> 00:49:47,152 Shit, do we have to fight? 714 00:49:47,234 --> 00:49:48,577 The bulletin board's over here. 715 00:49:48,652 --> 00:49:50,780 "Bulletin board's over here"! 716 00:49:55,075 --> 00:49:56,793 Good morning. 717 00:50:03,626 --> 00:50:07,176 Somebody's looking to get into a car pool. 718 00:50:07,254 --> 00:50:10,383 Somebody wants to sell a basset pup. 719 00:50:10,466 --> 00:50:13,436 You can pick pecans for 40 cents a bushel 720 00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,230 at Zelma Landing. 721 00:50:16,305 --> 00:50:18,808 The only thing missing is my notice. 722 00:50:18,891 --> 00:50:21,019 It's there. 723 00:50:21,101 --> 00:50:23,399 It is? I don't see it. 724 00:50:26,774 --> 00:50:29,027 Ah, yes. 725 00:50:30,402 --> 00:50:33,702 Wilt Chamberlain on stilts could read that thing maybe. 726 00:50:33,781 --> 00:50:37,706 Bring it down to eye level, brothers. 727 00:50:37,785 --> 00:50:40,254 We'll make note of your request. 728 00:50:41,956 --> 00:50:44,880 Why do you guys pull this horseshit? 729 00:50:44,959 --> 00:50:47,838 I'll have to call my lawyers. 730 00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:49,843 That's childish. 731 00:50:51,257 --> 00:50:53,225 Where's the pay phone? 732 00:50:53,300 --> 00:50:54,722 Hey! 733 00:50:56,095 --> 00:50:57,972 Rick, bring it down. 734 00:51:05,312 --> 00:51:07,064 Eye. Eye level. 735 00:51:07,147 --> 00:51:08,569 Eye. 736 00:51:18,742 --> 00:51:21,541 You ain't supposed to read it. 737 00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:27,923 No union organizer has been here for 10 years. 738 00:51:28,002 --> 00:51:29,379 I'm reading it. 739 00:51:29,461 --> 00:51:30,508 Well, read fast, then. 740 00:51:30,588 --> 00:51:33,262 You go read the court order 741 00:51:33,340 --> 00:51:35,434 that says any agent of this company 742 00:51:35,509 --> 00:51:40,766 can be held in contempt. 743 00:51:40,848 --> 00:51:41,895 I ain't violatin' no laws! 744 00:51:41,974 --> 00:51:43,897 You're violating the law now! 745 00:51:45,352 --> 00:51:46,854 Can we finish this? 746 00:51:46,937 --> 00:51:48,359 Certainly. 747 00:51:52,192 --> 00:51:54,240 Where's the other bulletin board? 748 00:51:54,320 --> 00:51:55,321 In the weaving room. 749 00:51:55,404 --> 00:51:57,247 Show it to me. 750 00:51:57,323 --> 00:51:58,700 Rick! 751 00:52:07,374 --> 00:52:09,968 Good morning. How are you? 752 00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:14,055 Good morning. 753 00:52:14,798 --> 00:52:16,220 Good morning to you. Good morning. 754 00:52:16,300 --> 00:52:19,682 I'm Warshovsky, Textile Workers' Union of America. 755 00:52:21,096 --> 00:52:23,975 Good morning. Morning to you. 756 00:52:24,058 --> 00:52:26,311 Good morning, ma'am. 757 00:52:27,561 --> 00:52:28,687 Good morning. 758 00:52:28,771 --> 00:52:31,399 Warshovsky, Textile Workers' Union of America. 759 00:52:31,482 --> 00:52:34,452 Good morning to you, ma'am. 760 00:52:39,740 --> 00:52:41,242 Good morning. 761 00:52:41,325 --> 00:52:44,044 I'm in room 31 of the Golden Cherry Motel 762 00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:46,588 if you have any questions. 763 00:52:48,207 --> 00:52:50,130 Good morning. 764 00:52:52,086 --> 00:52:54,009 Good morning to you. 765 00:52:55,381 --> 00:52:57,304 Good morning. 766 00:53:02,096 --> 00:53:03,848 Nice. 767 00:53:06,934 --> 00:53:12,361 Gentlemen, your average working man is not stupid. 768 00:53:12,439 --> 00:53:14,862 He just gets tired. 769 00:53:14,942 --> 00:53:18,697 You want to move this out of here, please? 770 00:53:34,211 --> 00:53:36,714 Move it. Move the stuff. 771 00:54:09,163 --> 00:54:10,881 Hey, Reuben? 772 00:54:10,956 --> 00:54:12,549 Hey. 773 00:54:12,624 --> 00:54:13,591 You busy? 774 00:54:13,667 --> 00:54:15,840 Yeah, very busy. 775 00:54:16,628 --> 00:54:17,629 Can I come in? 776 00:54:17,713 --> 00:54:19,056 Please. 777 00:54:29,975 --> 00:54:33,696 Jeez, don't they ever clean up around here? 778 00:54:35,689 --> 00:54:37,316 I don't want them messing with my stuff. 779 00:54:37,399 --> 00:54:39,697 I know where everything is. 780 00:54:41,403 --> 00:54:43,868 If I joined up with you, would I lose my job? 781 00:54:43,947 --> 00:54:45,369 No way. 782 00:54:46,033 --> 00:54:49,457 You can wear a union button as big as a Frisbee, 783 00:54:49,536 --> 00:54:54,042 talk union, as long as it's during a break, 784 00:54:54,124 --> 00:54:57,173 and pass along union pamphlets. 785 00:54:57,252 --> 00:54:59,050 They can't touch you. 786 00:55:01,799 --> 00:55:05,144 I was never a very good Girl Scout. 787 00:55:05,219 --> 00:55:07,642 I'll go along with you. 788 00:55:07,721 --> 00:55:09,769 You're the fish I wanted to hook. 789 00:55:11,225 --> 00:55:12,727 Well, 790 00:55:14,728 --> 00:55:17,356 you got me. 791 00:55:17,439 --> 00:55:19,316 What the hell you gonna do with me? 792 00:55:19,399 --> 00:55:21,072 Make a mensch out of you, kid. 793 00:55:23,445 --> 00:55:24,788 What is that? 794 00:55:26,990 --> 00:55:29,664 Somebody who visits the old folks' home on Saturday 795 00:55:29,743 --> 00:55:32,496 instead of playing golf 796 00:55:32,579 --> 00:55:36,004 or gives a blind man a dollar for a pencil. 797 00:55:36,083 --> 00:55:37,255 I'd do that. 798 00:55:37,918 --> 00:55:40,091 But would you take the pencil? 799 00:55:40,170 --> 00:55:41,638 Of course. I paid for it. 800 00:55:41,713 --> 00:55:45,308 Somewhere between logic and charity maybe there falls a little shadow? 801 00:55:45,384 --> 00:55:46,351 Reuben... 802 00:55:46,426 --> 00:55:48,679 We could debate this all night. 803 00:55:50,013 --> 00:55:51,435 Sign this. 804 00:56:05,195 --> 00:56:07,414 "Norma Rae Webster." 805 00:56:07,906 --> 00:56:10,125 Everybody down here has three names. 806 00:56:13,161 --> 00:56:17,507 Let me pin this on you. 807 00:56:17,583 --> 00:56:21,053 It would cover up the gravy spot. 808 00:56:21,128 --> 00:56:24,177 What do I get if I do? 809 00:56:24,256 --> 00:56:27,055 You don't get nothin' if you don't. 810 00:56:27,134 --> 00:56:29,512 Besides, ain't you had enough of that? 811 00:56:29,595 --> 00:56:33,600 We used to heat up that NCO club, remember? 812 00:56:33,682 --> 00:56:35,150 Bygone days. 813 00:56:36,685 --> 00:56:38,608 Then pin it on for bygone days. 814 00:56:38,687 --> 00:56:41,156 Wayne, I'm proud of you. 815 00:56:42,733 --> 00:56:46,078 Think we'll see that club again, honey? 816 00:56:46,153 --> 00:56:49,202 Take your wife. She doesn't get out much. 817 00:56:51,992 --> 00:56:55,667 Looks like you've strayed off the reservation, Norma. 818 00:56:55,746 --> 00:56:57,498 Is that right? 819 00:56:59,666 --> 00:57:03,136 You got a coffee machine at your end. 820 00:57:03,211 --> 00:57:05,134 But no water fountain. 821 00:57:05,213 --> 00:57:08,387 I cool down my coffee before drinking it. 822 00:57:08,467 --> 00:57:10,390 You'll cool everything! 823 00:57:26,276 --> 00:57:28,449 Hey, Reverend. 824 00:57:28,528 --> 00:57:30,405 Norma. You caught me in my shirtsleeves. 825 00:57:32,366 --> 00:57:35,119 Can we have some of your flowers for Sunday? 826 00:57:35,202 --> 00:57:37,330 Spider mites eating up everything. 827 00:57:37,412 --> 00:57:38,880 OK. 828 00:57:40,332 --> 00:57:42,960 Somehow I can help you, Norma? 829 00:57:44,878 --> 00:57:47,802 How long I been coming to this church? 830 00:57:47,881 --> 00:57:49,883 Since you were little. 831 00:57:49,967 --> 00:57:51,389 That's right. 832 00:57:51,468 --> 00:57:54,267 I accepted Christ when I was 6 years old. 833 00:57:58,558 --> 00:58:02,483 Would you call me a good Christian? 834 00:58:02,562 --> 00:58:04,314 With a lapse or two, yes. 835 00:58:04,398 --> 00:58:06,821 With a lapse or two. 836 00:58:06,900 --> 00:58:09,369 Are you a good Christian? 837 00:58:09,444 --> 00:58:11,196 That's for the Lord to say. 838 00:58:13,407 --> 00:58:16,286 I want this church for a union meeting next Saturday. 839 00:58:16,368 --> 00:58:19,372 That's blacks and whites sitting together. 840 00:58:19,454 --> 00:58:21,047 This is a house of God. 841 00:58:21,123 --> 00:58:23,876 I'm waiting to see whether it is. 842 00:58:23,959 --> 00:58:26,303 You're coming close to blasphemy. 843 00:58:26,628 --> 00:58:31,509 I've come here to ask God's forgiveness. 844 00:58:31,591 --> 00:58:33,844 I want to see what this church stands for, 845 00:58:33,927 --> 00:58:38,103 and if you'll say there should be justice, a union. 846 00:58:38,181 --> 00:58:42,652 And if you don't, 847 00:58:42,728 --> 00:58:45,527 there ain't nothin' good for me in that church. 848 00:58:45,605 --> 00:58:47,107 I'll leave it flat. 849 00:58:54,031 --> 00:58:56,875 We're going to miss your voice in the choir. 850 00:59:01,913 --> 00:59:05,008 You'll hear it raised up someplace else. 851 00:59:17,971 --> 00:59:21,396 I'll be in in a minute. 852 00:59:32,319 --> 00:59:36,040 We're holding a meeting, union business. 853 00:59:36,114 --> 00:59:39,414 Afterward we're having lemonade and ginger snaps. 854 00:59:39,493 --> 00:59:41,996 The shades are up. You can see in. 855 00:59:42,079 --> 00:59:43,581 Washed my windows on Saturday. 856 00:59:43,663 --> 00:59:46,507 You shouldn't have any trouble. 857 00:59:52,672 --> 00:59:55,425 You're going too far. 858 00:59:55,509 --> 00:59:57,011 How? 859 00:59:57,844 --> 00:59:59,767 There's a bunch of black men in there. 860 00:59:59,846 --> 01:00:01,223 You'll get us in trouble. 861 01:00:01,306 --> 01:00:05,982 I've never had trouble with black men, only white men. 862 01:00:14,069 --> 01:00:18,074 I remember some of you from the church. 863 01:00:18,156 --> 01:00:21,205 I did all of the talking that day. 864 01:00:21,284 --> 01:00:24,379 Now I'd like you to speak. 865 01:00:26,081 --> 01:00:27,708 Please. 866 01:00:43,807 --> 01:00:49,405 A man's work should be a man's work, not a term in jail. 867 01:00:49,896 --> 01:00:52,615 Blacks have been pushed, pulled, and scorned. 868 01:00:52,691 --> 01:00:54,364 For what? 869 01:00:54,442 --> 01:00:58,948 If everybody believes in the union, I'm all for it. 870 01:01:00,824 --> 01:01:04,249 Excuse me for saying this with menfolks here, 871 01:01:04,327 --> 01:01:07,672 but when I get menstrual cramps, 872 01:01:07,747 --> 01:01:09,670 which come pretty hard, 873 01:01:09,749 --> 01:01:12,753 they don't let me sit down on my job. 874 01:01:15,130 --> 01:01:18,009 You got to keep to your feet 875 01:01:18,091 --> 01:01:21,015 unless you bring a note from the doctor. 876 01:01:21,094 --> 01:01:23,517 We wouldn't pretend to be sick. 877 01:01:24,472 --> 01:01:28,397 I look at a brick wall all day. 878 01:01:28,476 --> 01:01:30,570 There used to be a window there. 879 01:01:30,645 --> 01:01:33,615 They brick it up to make us feel we shut in. 880 01:01:36,443 --> 01:01:40,198 My husband died of brown lung two months ago. 881 01:01:41,740 --> 01:01:46,246 His children are going to grow up not even 882 01:01:46,328 --> 01:01:47,625 knowing him. 883 01:01:54,461 --> 01:01:58,341 I got all his clothes, if someone could use them. 884 01:02:10,894 --> 01:02:13,647 I'm not getting the message across. 885 01:02:15,148 --> 01:02:17,321 17 people out of 800. 886 01:02:19,069 --> 01:02:23,165 Well, you're an outsider. 887 01:02:23,240 --> 01:02:25,334 Things move slow around here. 888 01:02:25,408 --> 01:02:28,252 This isn't New York, where you grab a taxi and grab your hat. 889 01:02:28,328 --> 01:02:30,296 Craig's wetting the bed. 890 01:02:32,332 --> 01:02:36,302 I told him not to drink Coke before he went to sleep. 891 01:02:38,088 --> 01:02:39,806 Craig? 892 01:02:39,881 --> 01:02:41,929 Come on, sugar, wake up. 893 01:02:42,008 --> 01:02:43,225 Get up. 894 01:02:43,301 --> 01:02:45,895 Put your arms around my neck. 895 01:02:57,774 --> 01:03:00,118 You got any ideas? 896 01:03:00,193 --> 01:03:02,616 Get some corn whiskey. 897 01:03:02,696 --> 01:03:05,620 We'll hit the back roads on Saturday. 898 01:03:07,325 --> 01:03:09,168 Are you finished, honey? 899 01:03:09,244 --> 01:03:10,712 OK. 900 01:03:11,413 --> 01:03:13,882 No more Cokes before you go to sleep. 901 01:03:24,884 --> 01:03:29,355 Mr. Robinson, how you doing today? 902 01:03:30,015 --> 01:03:31,483 I'm busy. 903 01:03:31,558 --> 01:03:33,902 I'm Norma Rae. You know me. 904 01:03:35,020 --> 01:03:36,647 Yeah. How do you do? 905 01:03:36,730 --> 01:03:38,528 This is my friend Reuben. 906 01:03:38,606 --> 01:03:40,825 Nice to see you. 907 01:03:40,900 --> 01:03:44,200 Read this, if you will, sir, 908 01:03:44,279 --> 01:03:45,826 and I'll fix your tire. 909 01:03:45,905 --> 01:03:47,282 How about that? 910 01:03:47,365 --> 01:03:49,288 You've got a deal. 911 01:03:53,997 --> 01:03:55,294 Can you do this? 912 01:03:55,373 --> 01:03:57,091 Are you kidding? 913 01:03:57,167 --> 01:03:59,511 Let's look like we can. 914 01:04:03,089 --> 01:04:04,511 Watch your hand. 915 01:04:04,591 --> 01:04:07,185 I think he was taking it off. 916 01:04:18,980 --> 01:04:21,950 Are you making a baseball bat? 917 01:04:24,402 --> 01:04:28,407 Hey, Joe. Will you read one of these? 918 01:04:28,490 --> 01:04:30,333 Jay, how you doing? 919 01:04:30,408 --> 01:04:32,081 Will you read one? 920 01:04:32,160 --> 01:04:36,040 Meet Reuben. He's a friend of mine. 921 01:04:36,122 --> 01:04:38,090 How you doing, gentlemen? 922 01:04:38,583 --> 01:04:43,009 Would you like to read one? Elwood? Bob? 923 01:04:43,088 --> 01:04:44,214 I'm not interested. 924 01:04:44,297 --> 01:04:46,299 You're not interested in a union? 925 01:04:46,383 --> 01:04:47,430 No. 926 01:04:47,509 --> 01:04:50,683 You think you'll get a better shake from management? 927 01:04:50,762 --> 01:04:52,480 I always have. 928 01:04:53,640 --> 01:04:54,687 Ow! 929 01:04:54,766 --> 01:04:57,144 Damn glad you cut it. 930 01:04:59,813 --> 01:05:01,156 That's telling him. 931 01:05:01,481 --> 01:05:03,074 Hey, Robert. 932 01:05:03,149 --> 01:05:04,446 Hi, Norma. 933 01:05:06,319 --> 01:05:07,696 - We come out... - Ah! 934 01:05:11,783 --> 01:05:13,706 It's only grass and water. 935 01:05:26,172 --> 01:05:29,267 We swam here as kids. 936 01:05:29,342 --> 01:05:32,767 We'd leave school, chuck off our clothes, 937 01:05:32,846 --> 01:05:34,268 and jump in. 938 01:05:34,806 --> 01:05:38,777 The only water hole I ever saw 939 01:05:38,852 --> 01:05:42,482 was when we opened the fire hydrant on 110th 940 01:05:42,564 --> 01:05:44,237 with a wrench. 941 01:05:46,067 --> 01:05:47,694 This is the life! 942 01:05:47,777 --> 01:05:50,530 It's just a mud hole. 943 01:05:50,613 --> 01:05:52,741 It's cooling off my mosquito bites. 944 01:05:54,534 --> 01:05:57,083 It's as clean as I can get it. 945 01:05:57,162 --> 01:05:58,835 Thank you. 946 01:06:02,459 --> 01:06:03,676 Whoo! 947 01:06:04,377 --> 01:06:06,004 It is hot. 948 01:06:07,714 --> 01:06:08,966 I'm coming in. 949 01:06:09,048 --> 01:06:10,516 Come on. 950 01:06:27,066 --> 01:06:28,488 You know what? 951 01:06:28,568 --> 01:06:33,494 An old farmer used to live around here with a BB gun. 952 01:06:36,576 --> 01:06:38,499 Sure hope he's moved. 953 01:06:38,578 --> 01:06:40,501 Yeah. Me, too. 954 01:06:40,580 --> 01:06:44,084 What's that? Something's flicking around my... 955 01:06:45,210 --> 01:06:46,211 Those are minnows. 956 01:06:46,294 --> 01:06:47,295 Those are what? 957 01:06:47,378 --> 01:06:48,846 Minnows. They won't hurt you. 958 01:06:48,922 --> 01:06:50,139 They better not. 959 01:06:50,215 --> 01:06:53,640 You're a fish out of water down here. 960 01:06:53,718 --> 01:06:56,597 It's not exactly my native habitat. 961 01:06:57,931 --> 01:07:03,153 What would you do on a day like this at home? 962 01:07:06,147 --> 01:07:09,492 Play handball at the Y, go see Aida at the Met. 963 01:07:10,610 --> 01:07:14,080 Eat Chinese, play poker, hit the sack. 964 01:07:19,244 --> 01:07:22,043 I've been two places in my life. 965 01:07:22,121 --> 01:07:26,130 I've been to Henleyville, been to Piston. 966 01:07:27,293 --> 01:07:29,637 Oh, you'd love New York. 967 01:07:29,712 --> 01:07:31,339 You would, wow. 968 01:07:31,422 --> 01:07:33,049 Super town. 969 01:07:33,132 --> 01:07:34,930 Most beautiful women in the world, 970 01:07:35,009 --> 01:07:39,936 best food, opera, theater, ballet. 971 01:07:41,224 --> 01:07:42,396 Reuben. 972 01:07:42,475 --> 01:07:44,022 What? 973 01:07:44,102 --> 01:07:45,319 You're homesick. 974 01:07:45,395 --> 01:07:46,772 Right. 975 01:07:47,772 --> 01:07:49,695 God. 976 01:07:49,774 --> 01:07:51,117 Reuben. 977 01:07:52,986 --> 01:07:55,080 You got a skinny build. 978 01:07:55,154 --> 01:07:56,246 Yeah? 979 01:07:59,576 --> 01:08:01,999 Sonny works out with weights. 980 01:08:03,997 --> 01:08:05,465 I tried that. 981 01:08:07,166 --> 01:08:09,009 I dropped them and broke my foot. 982 01:08:11,004 --> 01:08:12,130 Well, 983 01:08:13,840 --> 01:08:18,936 you don't got to worry, because you got a head on you, 984 01:08:20,430 --> 01:08:22,353 and you use it. 985 01:08:36,195 --> 01:08:37,367 What? 986 01:08:39,032 --> 01:08:44,337 We got a bad connection, because the line is being tapped. 987 01:08:44,412 --> 01:08:48,042 Hey, you? This is Norma Rae Webster. 988 01:08:48,124 --> 01:08:50,547 I'm talking union to Henry Willis. 989 01:08:50,627 --> 01:08:52,675 I'm on every night. 990 01:08:52,754 --> 01:08:54,381 Same old story, no commercials. 991 01:08:54,464 --> 01:08:56,432 Union, union, unions. 992 01:08:56,507 --> 01:08:59,727 Look, have your boss man tap me. 993 01:08:59,802 --> 01:09:03,306 Then you can go home to your wife and kids. 994 01:09:03,389 --> 01:09:05,858 Henry? 995 01:09:06,893 --> 01:09:08,145 Shoot! 996 01:09:10,271 --> 01:09:12,820 You ain't gettin' any sleep. 997 01:09:12,899 --> 01:09:14,321 Neither am I. 998 01:09:14,400 --> 01:09:16,869 We're working tomorrow morning. 999 01:09:16,944 --> 01:09:19,322 I got 100 calls to make tonight. 1000 01:09:21,449 --> 01:09:23,668 Is that going on our phone bill? 1001 01:09:23,743 --> 01:09:26,371 We'll take it out of my paycheck. 1002 01:09:26,454 --> 01:09:28,081 That damn milk is sour! 1003 01:09:29,749 --> 01:09:32,377 I didn't have a chance to go shopping. 1004 01:09:32,460 --> 01:09:36,181 And you didn't get to the washing, 1005 01:09:36,255 --> 01:09:39,600 or the kids, or to me! 1006 01:09:39,676 --> 01:09:40,973 Is that right? 1007 01:09:41,052 --> 01:09:42,178 That's right! 1008 01:09:42,261 --> 01:09:43,934 Damn TV dinners! 1009 01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:46,857 Kids going around in dirty jeans! 1010 01:09:46,933 --> 01:09:49,481 I'm going around, uh, without! 1011 01:09:49,560 --> 01:09:51,187 Altogether! 1012 01:10:05,368 --> 01:10:07,291 You want cooking? 1013 01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:19,306 You got cooking. 1014 01:10:21,509 --> 01:10:23,227 You want laundry? 1015 01:10:27,056 --> 01:10:28,649 You got laundry. 1016 01:10:31,144 --> 01:10:33,067 You want ironing? 1017 01:10:35,690 --> 01:10:37,237 You got ironing. 1018 01:10:37,316 --> 01:10:38,659 You want to make love? 1019 01:10:38,735 --> 01:10:42,615 You get behind me and lift up my nighty, and we'll make love. 1020 01:10:44,657 --> 01:10:45,829 Norma. 1021 01:10:48,161 --> 01:10:50,334 Norma! 1022 01:10:50,413 --> 01:10:51,585 Hey. 1023 01:11:06,387 --> 01:11:10,267 Come this time. Don't just nod your head. 1024 01:11:10,349 --> 01:11:14,445 Doris, come on. Bring your peanut butter pie. 1025 01:11:14,520 --> 01:11:18,400 I heard your little one's got the measles. 1026 01:11:18,483 --> 01:11:20,451 Keep him away from mine, will you? 1027 01:11:20,526 --> 01:11:23,405 Brenda, how's your new baby? 1028 01:11:23,488 --> 01:11:26,833 Get down to the Golden Cherry. 1029 01:11:26,908 --> 01:11:29,912 Hey, get down to the Golden Cherry. 1030 01:11:31,120 --> 01:11:35,375 Sue? Come on, read this, every single word of it. It's important. 1031 01:11:35,458 --> 01:11:36,755 Come on down. 1032 01:11:36,834 --> 01:11:39,257 If I got the time, you do. 1033 01:11:49,680 --> 01:11:52,354 I don't bump into you much anymore. 1034 01:11:54,602 --> 01:11:56,354 You all right, Daddy? 1035 01:11:56,437 --> 01:11:57,939 About the same. 1036 01:11:59,190 --> 01:12:01,909 Your color's bad. You been drinking? 1037 01:12:01,984 --> 01:12:03,361 Thimbleful now and then. 1038 01:12:03,444 --> 01:12:05,867 It's not good for you. 1039 01:12:05,947 --> 01:12:07,369 What's the difference? 1040 01:12:07,448 --> 01:12:10,702 I lie down and wonder if I'll get up again. 1041 01:12:12,453 --> 01:12:14,672 Don't talk old. I don't like it. 1042 01:12:17,250 --> 01:12:18,547 Listen. 1043 01:12:21,045 --> 01:12:25,391 I'm coming over there one of these nights 1044 01:12:25,466 --> 01:12:27,935 and take you out to a grand supper. 1045 01:12:29,345 --> 01:12:30,642 OK. 1046 01:12:30,721 --> 01:12:32,143 OK. 1047 01:13:00,084 --> 01:13:03,588 Has James gone back? 1048 01:13:03,671 --> 01:13:05,514 I guess so. 1049 01:13:06,841 --> 01:13:08,764 Where'd he go, home? 1050 01:13:08,843 --> 01:13:10,311 I don't know. 1051 01:13:12,179 --> 01:13:13,431 Jesus. 1052 01:13:13,514 --> 01:13:15,983 I ought to be going home, too. 1053 01:13:21,063 --> 01:13:23,737 Hey, how's Dorothy? 1054 01:13:24,817 --> 01:13:27,070 Terrific. Thanks. 1055 01:13:27,153 --> 01:13:29,155 I see you got a new picture of her. 1056 01:13:31,324 --> 01:13:34,794 You like it? My mother sent that. 1057 01:13:34,869 --> 01:13:38,624 She and your mother must get along real well. 1058 01:13:39,749 --> 01:13:42,628 Are you kidding? My mother loves her. 1059 01:13:42,710 --> 01:13:46,681 She's a lawyer, she's Jewish, and a great cook. 1060 01:13:46,756 --> 01:13:48,474 What else is there? 1061 01:13:54,055 --> 01:13:56,308 How come she's so smart? 1062 01:13:56,390 --> 01:13:57,642 Dorothy? 1063 01:13:58,851 --> 01:13:59,943 Books. 1064 01:14:02,521 --> 01:14:05,274 Oh, madame, your dinner. 1065 01:14:05,358 --> 01:14:08,285 Le grand banana and a beer. 1066 01:14:08,361 --> 01:14:09,487 No. 1067 01:14:12,823 --> 01:14:14,450 Who's this? 1068 01:14:14,533 --> 01:14:16,001 Dylan Thomas. 1069 01:14:17,495 --> 01:14:22,171 He was a poet, genius, and a drunk. 1070 01:14:26,087 --> 01:14:28,681 What's he write about? 1071 01:14:28,756 --> 01:14:33,727 Love, sex, death, other matters of consequence. 1072 01:14:34,929 --> 01:14:36,647 Is he hard to read? 1073 01:14:36,722 --> 01:14:37,939 Eh... 1074 01:14:38,015 --> 01:14:38,937 Eh... 1075 01:14:39,934 --> 01:14:41,936 So why should I bother? 1076 01:14:42,019 --> 01:14:45,819 Because maybe he has something to say to you. 1077 01:14:45,898 --> 01:14:47,821 Open that, will you? 1078 01:14:50,903 --> 01:14:54,658 "Rage, rage against the dying of the light." 1079 01:14:54,740 --> 01:14:55,832 Yeah? 1080 01:14:55,908 --> 01:14:57,000 Yeah. 1081 01:14:58,494 --> 01:15:01,585 Well, I'll try him. 1082 01:15:01,664 --> 01:15:02,756 Good. 1083 01:15:04,917 --> 01:15:09,514 Hell, there ain't nothin' on TV but reruns anyway. 1084 01:15:09,588 --> 01:15:11,431 Don't eat while you read. 1085 01:15:11,507 --> 01:15:13,805 I hate banana in my books. 1086 01:15:13,884 --> 01:15:16,057 Kvetch, kvetch, kvetch. 1087 01:15:54,425 --> 01:15:55,893 Warren? 1088 01:15:58,304 --> 01:15:59,726 Warren? 1089 01:16:02,683 --> 01:16:05,402 Nobody showed up at the meeting. 1090 01:16:05,478 --> 01:16:08,607 They got us on a stretch-out. 1091 01:16:08,689 --> 01:16:11,192 Put us on a three-day week. 1092 01:16:11,275 --> 01:16:14,324 Twice the work for half the pay. 1093 01:16:14,403 --> 01:16:16,656 All on account of you. 1094 01:16:17,490 --> 01:16:20,084 You stand there for a minute. 1095 01:16:26,332 --> 01:16:27,754 Oh, man. 1096 01:16:32,588 --> 01:16:36,559 There's six turnips and two quarts of water in there. 1097 01:16:36,634 --> 01:16:39,808 That's supper for seven people. 1098 01:16:39,887 --> 01:16:41,981 Sell your union someplace else. 1099 01:16:42,056 --> 01:16:43,399 Hey... 1100 01:17:09,041 --> 01:17:12,466 My arm's numb. I better lie down. 1101 01:17:13,170 --> 01:17:16,265 You got a break in 15 minutes. 1102 01:17:16,340 --> 01:17:18,138 I better go now. 1103 01:17:18,217 --> 01:17:20,640 Hang on. Your break's coming up. 1104 01:18:26,911 --> 01:18:29,835 In a minute, Lucius. 1105 01:18:30,539 --> 01:18:33,167 Mavis, Rhonda. 1106 01:18:38,047 --> 01:18:39,765 Hey, Betty. 1107 01:18:41,842 --> 01:18:44,846 You're supposed to be here at 3:15. 1108 01:18:44,929 --> 01:18:48,559 It's 4:15. Working for this union or not? 1109 01:18:48,641 --> 01:18:51,064 I got my tooth filled. 1110 01:18:51,143 --> 01:18:53,566 You were getting your beer gut filled! 1111 01:18:54,813 --> 01:18:57,657 Chew your old man out. Get off me. 1112 01:18:57,733 --> 01:19:02,990 I'm giving 9, 10, 12 hours here every day. 1113 01:19:03,072 --> 01:19:05,575 We're doing our share of work. 1114 01:19:05,658 --> 01:19:07,752 Either do your share or don't call yourself a union member! 1115 01:19:07,826 --> 01:19:13,003 Norma! Shut your cake hole. Out of the office. 1116 01:19:14,750 --> 01:19:16,627 I only said what was true. 1117 01:19:16,710 --> 01:19:18,257 Out. 1118 01:19:18,337 --> 01:19:19,805 Come on. 1119 01:19:24,969 --> 01:19:26,016 Peter. 1120 01:19:26,095 --> 01:19:28,723 Get to work. Come on. 1121 01:19:28,806 --> 01:19:31,400 Everybody back to work. 1122 01:19:48,117 --> 01:19:49,710 Mouth. 1123 01:19:52,579 --> 01:19:54,422 You can't come down that hard on a man. 1124 01:19:54,498 --> 01:19:56,921 Leave him his balls. Easy. Jesus. 1125 01:19:58,294 --> 01:20:01,673 If you were in the state department, we'd be at war. 1126 01:20:03,590 --> 01:20:06,184 - All right. I got a big mouth. - Um-hmm. 1127 01:20:10,806 --> 01:20:14,151 Cotton mill workers are known as trash to some. 1128 01:20:16,729 --> 01:20:20,529 The union's the only way we'll get our own voice 1129 01:20:20,607 --> 01:20:23,076 and make ourselves any better. 1130 01:20:24,194 --> 01:20:26,572 I guess that's why I push. 1131 01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:28,749 Our own Mother Jones. 1132 01:20:28,824 --> 01:20:30,826 Who's she? 1133 01:20:30,909 --> 01:20:33,128 She was some considerable lady. 1134 01:20:33,203 --> 01:20:37,174 She made it happen for the coal miners in West Virginia. 1135 01:20:37,249 --> 01:20:40,173 You ain't mad at me? 1136 01:20:41,587 --> 01:20:43,681 If the situation ever called for 1137 01:20:43,756 --> 01:20:49,513 a smart, loud, profane, sloppy, hard-working woman, 1138 01:20:49,595 --> 01:20:52,189 I'd pick you every time, kid. 1139 01:20:52,264 --> 01:20:55,359 How come sloppy? Nobody wears girdles anymore. 1140 01:20:57,269 --> 01:20:59,442 I didn't order anything. 1141 01:20:59,521 --> 01:21:01,444 Well, hey, you ate it! 1142 01:21:22,419 --> 01:21:23,671 What do you want? 1143 01:21:23,754 --> 01:21:25,176 Warshovsky around? 1144 01:21:27,424 --> 01:21:29,347 Reuben's at the printer's. 1145 01:21:29,426 --> 01:21:31,520 Pretty late for the printer's. 1146 01:21:33,347 --> 01:21:35,896 Reuben keeps them working late. 1147 01:21:36,767 --> 01:21:39,236 You're Norma Rae, aren't you? 1148 01:21:39,478 --> 01:21:40,479 Huh? 1149 01:21:41,271 --> 01:21:43,820 I'm Mrs. Webster. 1150 01:21:43,899 --> 01:21:46,072 We're from the union national headquarters. 1151 01:21:46,151 --> 01:21:47,903 Al London, Sam Dankin. 1152 01:21:47,986 --> 01:21:50,159 Is that right? 1153 01:21:50,239 --> 01:21:54,085 I might as well give you my shopping list. 1154 01:21:54,159 --> 01:21:57,504 We need envelopes, stamps. 1155 01:21:57,579 --> 01:21:59,001 We're almost out of typing paper. 1156 01:21:59,081 --> 01:22:03,006 How about some typewriters that don't stick? 1157 01:22:04,002 --> 01:22:06,425 We're not in office supplies, Mrs. Webster. 1158 01:22:06,505 --> 01:22:09,600 You aren't around much, either. 1159 01:22:09,675 --> 01:22:11,268 Hello, Reuben. 1160 01:22:11,343 --> 01:22:14,597 Sam, you're getting fat. 1161 01:22:14,680 --> 01:22:16,182 I've gained a couple pounds. 1162 01:22:16,265 --> 01:22:17,687 Al, how are you? 1163 01:22:17,766 --> 01:22:20,189 Lousy. I got a cold. 1164 01:22:21,353 --> 01:22:23,276 What brings you guys? 1165 01:22:24,022 --> 01:22:26,445 You're not getting up a head of steam, Reuben. 1166 01:22:26,525 --> 01:22:29,870 You know what I'm up against. 1167 01:22:29,945 --> 01:22:31,367 We're worried. 1168 01:22:31,447 --> 01:22:32,994 That makes three of us. 1169 01:22:33,073 --> 01:22:35,997 It's a small, Southern Baptist town. 1170 01:22:36,076 --> 01:22:37,953 You got to keep your nose very clean. 1171 01:22:38,036 --> 01:22:40,960 Why? You see any snot in mine? 1172 01:22:43,584 --> 01:22:45,962 Maybe Mrs. Webster would like to leave? 1173 01:22:47,880 --> 01:22:49,052 Why? 1174 01:22:49,131 --> 01:22:50,303 This concerns her. 1175 01:22:50,382 --> 01:22:52,259 I'm making it easy on her... 1176 01:22:52,342 --> 01:22:54,936 It's late. What do you want? 1177 01:22:57,723 --> 01:23:00,067 If the company wants us to look bad, 1178 01:23:00,142 --> 01:23:03,692 they'll use anything to make us look bad. 1179 01:23:03,770 --> 01:23:07,491 The mill hands go to church every Sunday. 1180 01:23:07,566 --> 01:23:09,409 She's talking union to them? 1181 01:23:13,989 --> 01:23:15,411 They say she's made a porno movie 1182 01:23:15,491 --> 01:23:19,161 with a local police officer, very explicit. 1183 01:23:22,080 --> 01:23:24,003 Run it for me. 1184 01:23:24,082 --> 01:23:27,757 There doesn't have to be a movie, if people talk like there's one. 1185 01:23:29,838 --> 01:23:32,341 The lady has an illegitimate child. 1186 01:23:32,424 --> 01:23:34,017 She's slept around. 1187 01:23:34,092 --> 01:23:36,015 She naps on your bed. 1188 01:23:36,094 --> 01:23:41,442 Are we in the union business or the character assassination business? 1189 01:23:41,517 --> 01:23:46,523 After an 18-hour day, I got the Legion of Decency here! 1190 01:23:46,605 --> 01:23:49,199 She's broken her ass for this organization! 1191 01:23:49,274 --> 01:23:52,027 She doesn't see her kids! Doesn't have time for bath! 1192 01:23:52,110 --> 01:23:55,034 Is this the Catholic Church? 1193 01:23:55,113 --> 01:23:56,285 Are we canonizing her? 1194 01:23:56,365 --> 01:23:57,708 It's your game. 1195 01:23:57,783 --> 01:23:59,410 You're damn right! 1196 01:23:59,493 --> 01:24:01,871 Make it stick or get out! 1197 01:24:01,954 --> 01:24:03,581 Get out anyway! 1198 01:24:08,460 --> 01:24:10,554 I'm sorry, Mrs. Webster. 1199 01:24:19,638 --> 01:24:22,938 I don't want to hurt the union. I'll quit if you want. 1200 01:24:23,016 --> 01:24:25,986 Weren't you supposed to be typing letters? 1201 01:24:28,480 --> 01:24:29,652 Yeah. 1202 01:24:54,506 --> 01:24:56,474 Hey. It's me, Norma. 1203 01:24:58,218 --> 01:25:00,721 OK, it's I, Norma. Forget the grammar. 1204 01:25:00,804 --> 01:25:03,023 We got to talk. 1205 01:25:07,477 --> 01:25:10,401 Maybe we could meet at my break. 1206 01:25:10,480 --> 01:25:11,902 OK. 1207 01:25:14,860 --> 01:25:17,659 I was making sure my kids got home from school. 1208 01:25:17,738 --> 01:25:21,368 Your kids are with my kids buying candy. 1209 01:25:23,493 --> 01:25:26,042 That's why dentist bills is busting me! 1210 01:25:26,997 --> 01:25:28,544 Uh! 1211 01:25:30,834 --> 01:25:34,259 Come on! Come on, boy! 1212 01:25:34,338 --> 01:25:35,965 Come here, boy! 1213 01:25:37,174 --> 01:25:38,926 You thinking union? 1214 01:25:39,551 --> 01:25:42,100 You want union? You'll get union. 1215 01:25:48,352 --> 01:25:50,775 Break it up! Break it up! 1216 01:25:50,854 --> 01:25:52,777 Break it up! 1217 01:26:01,907 --> 01:26:02,999 You all right? 1218 01:26:03,075 --> 01:26:04,122 Yeah. 1219 01:26:04,993 --> 01:26:06,495 What started this? 1220 01:26:06,578 --> 01:26:09,832 They put up a letter saying blacks are taking over the union, 1221 01:26:09,915 --> 01:26:14,261 that they're going to push the whites around. 1222 01:26:14,336 --> 01:26:17,089 We'll take legal action. 1223 01:26:17,172 --> 01:26:18,765 Get me the letter. 1224 01:26:18,840 --> 01:26:21,639 They're watching me. 1225 01:26:21,718 --> 01:26:23,061 How's your memory? 1226 01:26:23,136 --> 01:26:24,888 I don't know the pledge of allegiance. 1227 01:26:24,971 --> 01:26:27,224 Write down a line at a time. 1228 01:26:27,307 --> 01:26:30,026 It's like the time I pinched a lipstick. 1229 01:26:30,102 --> 01:26:31,194 Did you get caught? 1230 01:26:31,269 --> 01:26:33,317 I went back for curlers. 1231 01:27:04,469 --> 01:27:08,349 "Dominate it 1232 01:27:08,432 --> 01:27:12,403 "and control it 1233 01:27:12,477 --> 01:27:16,402 "as you may 1234 01:27:16,481 --> 01:27:19,826 "see fit. 1235 01:27:19,901 --> 01:27:22,825 "If now... 1236 01:27:24,740 --> 01:27:26,663 "if now..." 1237 01:27:27,659 --> 01:27:30,037 Damn! Damn, damn, damn! 1238 01:27:30,120 --> 01:27:34,091 "...you black employees, by joining the union, 1239 01:27:34,166 --> 01:27:37,716 "can dominate it and control it 1240 01:27:37,794 --> 01:27:39,091 "as you may see fit. 1241 01:27:39,171 --> 01:27:41,265 "If..." 1242 01:27:41,339 --> 01:27:42,591 Where's the rest? 1243 01:27:42,674 --> 01:27:44,267 That's all I could get. 1244 01:27:44,342 --> 01:27:45,764 Mata Hari. 1245 01:27:45,844 --> 01:27:47,687 They watched us every minute. 1246 01:27:47,763 --> 01:27:51,108 Here's our chance to nail them. 1247 01:27:51,183 --> 01:27:52,935 Don't tell me you can't remember. 1248 01:27:53,018 --> 01:27:57,273 You copy it line for line. 1249 01:27:57,355 --> 01:28:01,451 You get the date and signature. 1250 01:28:01,526 --> 01:28:02,618 I'll get fired. 1251 01:28:02,694 --> 01:28:03,661 I'll run you a benefit. 1252 01:28:03,737 --> 01:28:05,614 Thanks a lot. 1253 01:28:05,697 --> 01:28:07,870 Want a massage? Go to a massage parlor. 1254 01:28:07,949 --> 01:28:11,203 Either we get beat, or we don't get beat. 1255 01:28:12,954 --> 01:28:17,710 I got three kids, bills, and an unhappy husband. 1256 01:28:17,793 --> 01:28:21,969 I'll do it, but keep off my back. 1257 01:28:22,047 --> 01:28:24,266 Reuben, I'll tell you something. 1258 01:28:24,341 --> 01:28:25,809 What? 1259 01:28:25,884 --> 01:28:29,934 You've been away from home and you're getting crabby. 1260 01:28:30,013 --> 01:28:33,233 Reuben, you need yourself a woman. 1261 01:28:34,392 --> 01:28:36,019 Funny you should mention it. 1262 01:28:36,102 --> 01:28:38,355 Tonight's the night. 1263 01:28:38,438 --> 01:28:39,940 What would Dorothy say? 1264 01:28:40,023 --> 01:28:41,650 "Wear a rubber." 1265 01:28:49,449 --> 01:28:50,666 You can't copy this! 1266 01:28:50,742 --> 01:28:52,995 It's on the board. I'm going to copy it! 1267 01:28:53,078 --> 01:28:55,126 You better not. 1268 01:28:55,205 --> 01:28:57,378 I'm taking down every word! 1269 01:28:57,457 --> 01:29:01,337 It's my break! I'm copying every word! 1270 01:29:01,419 --> 01:29:02,887 Stay out of my way! 1271 01:29:02,963 --> 01:29:04,886 I'm copying it! 1272 01:29:09,427 --> 01:29:10,849 Hello, Norma. 1273 01:29:10,929 --> 01:29:13,648 You know who I am. 1274 01:29:13,723 --> 01:29:16,476 Put the pencil and paper away. 1275 01:29:16,560 --> 01:29:18,938 Stop it right now. 1276 01:29:19,020 --> 01:29:21,443 You're going to leave! 1277 01:29:21,523 --> 01:29:25,369 The law's going to come after you! 1278 01:29:25,443 --> 01:29:29,573 Mr. Mason, I started this, and I'm going to finish it. 1279 01:29:31,616 --> 01:29:34,244 "Serious violence." 1280 01:29:43,128 --> 01:29:45,551 Let's go to my office. 1281 01:29:50,176 --> 01:29:53,897 Why did you make personal calls on company time? 1282 01:30:00,812 --> 01:30:03,486 Spell out your names for me. 1283 01:30:06,026 --> 01:30:07,573 Don't be foolish, Norma Rae. 1284 01:30:10,071 --> 01:30:12,995 Nobody here is on my side, 1285 01:30:13,074 --> 01:30:17,079 and I'm not leaving until I set down all your names. 1286 01:30:17,162 --> 01:30:20,712 I want you off the premises now! 1287 01:30:21,499 --> 01:30:24,844 Phone your husband! Have him fetch you! 1288 01:30:24,920 --> 01:30:26,968 I want you out quick! 1289 01:30:55,200 --> 01:30:56,292 Norma Rae. 1290 01:30:56,368 --> 01:30:57,620 Forget it! 1291 01:30:57,702 --> 01:30:59,796 I'm staying put! 1292 01:30:59,871 --> 01:31:01,999 Right where I am! 1293 01:31:05,168 --> 01:31:08,388 It's going to take you, the police department, 1294 01:31:08,463 --> 01:31:10,215 the fire department, 1295 01:31:10,298 --> 01:31:13,393 and the National Guard to get me out of here! 1296 01:31:15,261 --> 01:31:18,640 I'll wait for the sheriff to take me home! 1297 01:31:18,723 --> 01:31:21,897 And I ain't gonna budge till he gets here! 1298 01:33:59,801 --> 01:34:02,520 Come on down now, Norma Rae. 1299 01:34:04,305 --> 01:34:06,228 Come on down, now. 1300 01:34:12,647 --> 01:34:15,070 You heard what I said. Come down. 1301 01:34:29,038 --> 01:34:30,255 Lamar. 1302 01:34:32,834 --> 01:34:37,965 I want you to put it in writing that Sheriff Lamar Miller 1303 01:34:38,047 --> 01:34:42,177 is going to take Norma Rae Webster straight home. 1304 01:34:42,260 --> 01:34:44,854 I want you to sign it, 1305 01:34:44,929 --> 01:34:48,604 and I want you to hand it to me. 1306 01:34:49,017 --> 01:34:50,769 Don't tell me what to do. 1307 01:34:50,852 --> 01:34:53,856 You're getting nothing from me in writing. 1308 01:34:55,398 --> 01:34:56,900 You want her off the premises? 1309 01:34:56,983 --> 01:34:58,530 Take her out. 1310 01:35:00,278 --> 01:35:02,121 I'm not sure I should get in the same car 1311 01:35:02,197 --> 01:35:04,370 with you and nobody else. 1312 01:35:05,867 --> 01:35:09,292 Lamar, I ain't gonna bite you. 1313 01:35:41,277 --> 01:35:43,746 A police car? You're taking me to jail! 1314 01:35:43,821 --> 01:35:46,916 No! No! No! 1315 01:35:46,991 --> 01:35:48,117 Quit that now! 1316 01:35:48,201 --> 01:35:49,578 No! No! 1317 01:35:49,661 --> 01:35:51,208 You're going to jail! 1318 01:35:51,287 --> 01:35:52,630 No! 1319 01:35:52,705 --> 01:35:54,048 Get her in there. 1320 01:35:54,123 --> 01:35:55,921 No! No! 1321 01:35:56,000 --> 01:35:58,674 No! 1322 01:35:58,753 --> 01:36:00,255 Get in there now! 1323 01:36:00,338 --> 01:36:01,430 No! 1324 01:36:01,506 --> 01:36:02,758 Get her in. 1325 01:36:02,840 --> 01:36:04,638 Get in there. 1326 01:36:04,717 --> 01:36:06,185 No! 1327 01:36:07,345 --> 01:36:08,813 Ahhh! 1328 01:36:08,930 --> 01:36:10,853 No! 1329 01:36:23,861 --> 01:36:27,286 Webster, Norma Rae. 1330 01:36:27,365 --> 01:36:30,790 704 Priester Road, Henleyville. 1331 01:36:30,868 --> 01:36:32,586 She's white. 1332 01:36:32,662 --> 01:36:35,123 Female, 31. 1333 01:36:35,206 --> 01:36:37,834 Occupation, textile. 1334 01:36:37,917 --> 01:36:42,339 Fair complexion, brown hair, brown eyes. 1335 01:36:42,422 --> 01:36:46,472 Arrest number, 2238B. 1336 01:36:46,551 --> 01:36:50,096 Charge, disorderly conduct. 1337 01:36:51,347 --> 01:36:54,938 Norma Rae, you go with her now. 1338 01:37:13,786 --> 01:37:15,788 Might as well sit down. 1339 01:37:18,041 --> 01:37:20,590 You got one phone call. 1340 01:37:20,668 --> 01:37:22,420 Better call Sonny. 1341 01:37:24,005 --> 01:37:26,474 I'll be calling my union organizer. 1342 01:37:31,262 --> 01:37:34,266 The first time you're in is bad. 1343 01:37:52,367 --> 01:37:54,461 It comes with the job. 1344 01:38:00,500 --> 01:38:03,094 I saw a pregnant woman on a picket line 1345 01:38:03,169 --> 01:38:05,888 get hit in the stomach with a club. 1346 01:38:05,963 --> 01:38:09,388 I saw a boy of 16 get shot in the back. 1347 01:38:11,177 --> 01:38:13,555 I saw a guy blown to hell and back 1348 01:38:13,638 --> 01:38:16,107 when he tried to start his car. 1349 01:38:21,312 --> 01:38:24,156 You just got your feet wet on this one. 1350 01:38:39,831 --> 01:38:42,425 Norma, you all right? 1351 01:38:46,421 --> 01:38:48,844 I put the kids to bed. 1352 01:38:57,140 --> 01:38:58,813 Craig? 1353 01:38:58,891 --> 01:38:59,983 Honey, wake up. 1354 01:39:00,059 --> 01:39:01,561 It's Mama. 1355 01:39:01,644 --> 01:39:04,488 I want to talk to you. Come on. 1356 01:39:04,564 --> 01:39:07,238 Put your arms around my neck. 1357 01:39:07,316 --> 01:39:09,694 Alice, Millie, wake up. 1358 01:39:09,777 --> 01:39:11,620 I want to talk to you, sweetheart. 1359 01:39:11,696 --> 01:39:13,994 Come in the living room. 1360 01:39:15,324 --> 01:39:17,702 Come on. Atta girl. 1361 01:39:40,892 --> 01:39:42,860 I love you kids. 1362 01:39:44,228 --> 01:39:46,697 That's the first thing. 1363 01:39:47,899 --> 01:39:49,822 And Sonny loves you. 1364 01:39:51,903 --> 01:39:54,326 You got the both of us. 1365 01:39:57,700 --> 01:39:59,748 The second thing is 1366 01:40:01,412 --> 01:40:03,835 I'm a jailbird. 1367 01:40:05,500 --> 01:40:07,923 Now, you're going to be hearing that 1368 01:40:08,002 --> 01:40:10,471 and a lot of other things. 1369 01:40:10,546 --> 01:40:13,516 But you're going to hear it from me first. 1370 01:40:18,971 --> 01:40:20,894 Millie. 1371 01:40:20,973 --> 01:40:22,771 Your daddy. 1372 01:40:22,850 --> 01:40:24,898 His name was Buddy Wilson. 1373 01:40:24,977 --> 01:40:28,322 He died four months after you was born. 1374 01:40:30,483 --> 01:40:31,951 Craig. 1375 01:40:33,486 --> 01:40:36,660 I wasn't never married to your daddy. 1376 01:40:36,739 --> 01:40:39,367 And he wasn't Buddy. 1377 01:40:39,450 --> 01:40:41,748 And he's not Sonny. 1378 01:40:41,827 --> 01:40:43,795 He's another man. 1379 01:40:46,332 --> 01:40:49,427 And there have been others in my life. 1380 01:40:49,502 --> 01:40:52,972 You're going to be hearing about them, too. 1381 01:40:54,173 --> 01:40:56,175 I'm not perfect. 1382 01:40:57,510 --> 01:40:59,387 I made mistakes. 1383 01:41:11,482 --> 01:41:14,907 Millie, these are pictures of your daddy. 1384 01:41:16,028 --> 01:41:18,656 Craig, I got pictures of your daddy. 1385 01:41:20,032 --> 01:41:22,000 They belong to you. 1386 01:41:33,045 --> 01:41:36,140 If you go in the mill, 1387 01:41:36,215 --> 01:41:40,140 I want life to be better for you than it is for me. 1388 01:41:43,055 --> 01:41:46,104 That's why I joined the union, 1389 01:41:46,183 --> 01:41:48,686 and that's why I got fired for it. 1390 01:41:51,439 --> 01:41:53,191 You understand me? 1391 01:41:59,071 --> 01:42:00,948 Now, you kids, 1392 01:42:02,408 --> 01:42:04,376 you know what I am. 1393 01:42:06,037 --> 01:42:09,007 And you know that I believe 1394 01:42:09,081 --> 01:42:12,051 in standing up for what I think is right. 1395 01:42:23,095 --> 01:42:25,894 Go to the bathroom before you get into bed. 1396 01:42:27,099 --> 01:42:29,568 Take your pictures. 1397 01:42:31,103 --> 01:42:32,571 Go on. 1398 01:42:42,907 --> 01:42:45,535 I'll take a bath. 1399 01:42:45,618 --> 01:42:48,087 There's lice in that jail. 1400 01:43:00,091 --> 01:43:03,015 She had one call, and she called you. 1401 01:43:04,637 --> 01:43:07,106 She knew I could make bail. 1402 01:43:09,100 --> 01:43:11,353 You come in here, 1403 01:43:11,435 --> 01:43:15,315 you mix her up, turn her head all around. 1404 01:43:15,398 --> 01:43:17,571 She's all changed. 1405 01:43:19,652 --> 01:43:22,781 I didn't want her to be a front-runner. 1406 01:43:27,785 --> 01:43:30,880 What's going to happen to us now? 1407 01:43:30,955 --> 01:43:32,298 She stood on the table. 1408 01:43:32,373 --> 01:43:34,341 She's a free woman. 1409 01:43:34,417 --> 01:43:37,546 Maybe you can live with it. Maybe you can't. 1410 01:43:47,179 --> 01:43:49,273 Busted my shoelace. 1411 01:43:51,308 --> 01:43:53,436 There's another one in the drawer. 1412 01:43:53,519 --> 01:43:56,068 I busted that one last week. 1413 01:44:03,946 --> 01:44:06,995 Did you ever sleep with him? 1414 01:44:07,074 --> 01:44:08,701 No. 1415 01:44:11,162 --> 01:44:12,379 But he's in my head. 1416 01:44:17,501 --> 01:44:21,506 I'm going to see you through getting tired, 1417 01:44:21,589 --> 01:44:23,387 getting sick, 1418 01:44:25,342 --> 01:44:27,310 getting old. 1419 01:44:30,473 --> 01:44:34,398 I'm going to see you through anything that comes up. 1420 01:44:36,312 --> 01:44:39,236 And there's nobody else in my head. 1421 01:44:41,358 --> 01:44:42,860 Just you. 1422 01:47:16,055 --> 01:47:20,481 Folks, ballots tabulated for the O.P. Henley Company, 1423 01:47:20,559 --> 01:47:24,689 against the union, 373. 1424 01:47:47,086 --> 01:47:48,554 Folks, 1425 01:47:51,423 --> 01:47:55,473 the count for the union, 427. 1426 01:48:10,401 --> 01:48:12,403 We got it in! 1427 01:48:13,278 --> 01:48:17,078 Union! Union! Union! Union! 1428 01:48:18,325 --> 01:48:21,044 Union! Union! Union! 1429 01:48:23,288 --> 01:48:26,007 Union! Union! Union! 1430 01:48:31,922 --> 01:48:35,051 Union! Union! Union! Union! 1431 01:48:35,134 --> 01:48:38,684 Union! Union! Union! 1432 01:48:38,762 --> 01:48:42,187 Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! 1433 01:48:50,357 --> 01:48:53,327 Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! Union! 1434 01:49:18,343 --> 01:49:20,186 You going to drive straight through? 1435 01:49:20,262 --> 01:49:22,606 Yes. 1436 01:49:22,681 --> 01:49:25,059 You better stop for coffee, stay awake. 1437 01:49:25,142 --> 01:49:27,440 I got a thermos in the car. 1438 01:49:30,105 --> 01:49:31,527 Well... 1439 01:49:33,358 --> 01:49:34,826 Well? 1440 01:49:34,985 --> 01:49:36,237 Well. 1441 01:49:36,320 --> 01:49:37,367 Well. 1442 01:49:37,988 --> 01:49:40,116 Ah, so. 1443 01:49:40,199 --> 01:49:42,167 What are you going to do now? 1444 01:49:42,242 --> 01:49:44,336 Live. What else? 1445 01:49:45,829 --> 01:49:48,503 Drop me a line once in a while. 1446 01:49:49,708 --> 01:49:51,381 Anyone read your mail? 1447 01:49:51,460 --> 01:49:53,462 My mother. 1448 01:49:57,174 --> 01:49:59,973 I'll send you a copy of Dylan Thomas. 1449 01:50:00,052 --> 01:50:02,976 I already bought one for myself. 1450 01:50:03,055 --> 01:50:04,932 You did? 1451 01:50:05,015 --> 01:50:07,643 Nobody can do anything for you, huh? 1452 01:50:10,020 --> 01:50:15,200 You've done something for me, a lot. 1453 01:50:18,195 --> 01:50:21,119 Well, you did something for us. 1454 01:50:24,034 --> 01:50:25,786 A mitzvah. 1455 01:50:26,829 --> 01:50:29,753 - What's that? - What is that? 1456 01:50:30,457 --> 01:50:32,380 That's a good work. 1457 01:50:34,920 --> 01:50:37,890 I don't say good-bye. 1458 01:50:37,965 --> 01:50:40,764 I have been known to cry. 1459 01:50:40,843 --> 01:50:42,766 - Well, what do you say? - Ahhh... 1460 01:50:44,721 --> 01:50:46,268 Be happy. 1461 01:50:46,348 --> 01:50:48,271 Be well. 1462 01:50:48,350 --> 01:50:50,273 Same to you. 1463 01:50:56,233 --> 01:50:59,328 Best wishes don't seem hardly enough. 1464 01:50:59,403 --> 01:51:00,871 I... 1465 01:51:00,946 --> 01:51:02,493 I'd like to thank you. 1466 01:51:05,450 --> 01:51:07,077 I do. 1467 01:51:07,161 --> 01:51:10,711 I thank you for your companionship, 1468 01:51:10,789 --> 01:51:13,212 your stamina, 1469 01:51:13,292 --> 01:51:16,594 your horse sense, and 101 laughs. 1470 01:51:18,964 --> 01:51:22,013 I also enjoyed very much 1471 01:51:22,092 --> 01:51:24,811 looking at your shining hair 1472 01:51:24,887 --> 01:51:26,605 and your shining face. 1473 01:51:28,015 --> 01:51:30,859 Reuben, I think you like me. 1474 01:51:32,311 --> 01:51:33,779 I do. 1475 01:51:36,690 --> 01:51:39,409 I was going to buy you something, 1476 01:51:39,484 --> 01:51:42,454 but I didn't know what you'd like. 1477 01:51:44,156 --> 01:51:48,627 Norma, what I've had from you has been sumptuous. 1478 01:52:03,717 --> 01:52:09,395 Bless the child of a workin' man 1479 01:52:09,473 --> 01:52:15,071 She knows too soon who she is 1480 01:52:15,145 --> 01:52:21,073 And bless the hands of a workin' man 1481 01:52:21,151 --> 01:52:26,908 He knows his soul is his 1482 01:52:26,990 --> 01:52:29,789 So it goes like it goes 1483 01:52:29,868 --> 01:52:31,586 Like the river flows 1484 01:52:32,454 --> 01:52:38,086 And time, it rolls right on 1485 01:52:38,168 --> 01:52:41,012 And maybe what's good 1486 01:52:41,088 --> 01:52:46,015 Gets a little bit better 1487 01:52:46,093 --> 01:52:52,851 And maybe what's bad gets gone 1488 01:52:59,356 --> 01:53:02,030 And it goes like it goes 1489 01:53:02,109 --> 01:53:04,988 Like the river flows 1490 01:53:05,070 --> 01:53:11,544 And time keeps rollin' on 1491 01:53:11,618 --> 01:53:14,963 And maybe what's good 1492 01:53:15,038 --> 01:53:21,091 Gets a little bit better 1493 01:53:21,169 --> 01:53:26,479 And maybe what's bad 1494 01:53:26,550 --> 01:53:33,399 Gets gone100765