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American South  Ellington resented the many duties that came
with the repair jobs  Ellington received praise from Everett
Jordan and his other supervisors because he could fix the
spooling machine at the mill quicker than anyone else. But when
supervisors assigned him too many duties in the spinning room,
he chose not to accept the work assignment.  Citing this Excerpt
Full Text of the Excerpt  I went in there as a doffer and doffed
spinning; me and Grief Smith. I went from that to fixing and I
continued as fixer in the spinning room the rest of the time
then when they put the spooler in I went out on the spooler
Barber -Coleman Spooler and I learned to spool, and I kept it in
my head what I had learned. It broke down one day with Cephas
and they came after me. I told him to start it up and he said,
it ain't no need, it's out of time. I started it up and I seen
what was wrong with it and I fixed it. Joe Neel said I'd have it
fixed in 5 minutes time,