Kester explains the work of the YWCA Industrial Department in Nashville, Tennessee, during the 1930s. Earlier in the interview, Kester discussed how the Industrial Department differed from other branches of the YWCA in that it sought to work with working women and girls directly. Here, he focuses on how although the YWCA was more progressive in its approach to race and labor than was the YMCA, they still had difficulty getting labor organizations to organize women and African American workers.