Ethnic Background: Italian
Occupation: mill worker (stitcher)
Note: There is no paper work on this tape. I have checked the transcript - it doesn't give a clue, re same. Week of December 19, 1994 I phoned Catherine Caruso, 686-4920. She recommended Joseph Caruso, 688-2403. He had no information.
December 22, 1994 - I was given information that led to Connie Carroll signing a Narrator Release in place of Coradino Caruso on January 24, 1995.
Summary: C. Caruso left school at age 12; worked in Everett, Wood and Washington Mills as a dopper. She described work in these and the Pacific Mill; she tells of strike at the Pacific Mill in 1931; she describes several industrial accidents in the mills. She worked as a stitcher in the Grieco Mill from 1935 - 1971. Also info re: Strike of 1919.
Collection
Lawrence History Center Oral History Collection
https://www.lawrencehistorycenter.org/files/audio/oh/2007.500.095-ccaru…