McGill, Eula, 1911-

Eula McGill (1911- ), member of the Women's Trade Union League and the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, born in Dalton, Georgia.

Eula McGill was born near Resaca, Georgia on May 15, 1911. In 1915, her family moved to Gadsden, Alabama. Here during the organizing drives of World War I, she received her introduction to the labor movement. McGill quit school at fourteen to become a spinner in a textile mill. After a brief marriage and the birth of a son, she moved with her parents to Birmingham.

She helped organize a United Textile Workers Union local at Selma Manufacturing Co. mill and joined the General Strike of 1934. In 1936, she lost her job as a result of her involvement with the Women's Trade Union League. When the Amalgamated Clothing Workers Union (ACWU) set up a Southern Regional Committee in Atlanta, McGill joined the staff. From 1939 to the present, she has worked full time for the ACWU.

Her most memorable experience involved a jurisdictional dispute with the United Mine Workers in LaFollette, Tennessee, where she served as one of the first women business agents in the South. In 1954, she, along with Ed Blair, became Assistant Organizing Directors for the South, under ACWU Vice-President Gladys Dickason. She is currently Manager of the North Alabama Joint Board.