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Interview with Alice Caudle, Mill Worker
Interviewee: Alice Caudle
Occupation: Mill Worker
Location: Concord, North Carolina
Date: September 2, 1938
Interviewer: Muriel L. Wolff
Interview Excerpt: "Do you like working in a mill?"
Law, I reckon I was born to work in a mill. I started when I was ten year old and I aim to keep right on jest as long as I'm able. I'd a-heap rather do it than housework... Yessir, when I started down here to plant No. 1, I was so little I had to stand on a box to reach my work. I was a spinner at first, then I learned to spool. When they put in them new winding machines, I asked them to learn me how to work em and they did. If I'd a-been a man no telling how far I'd-a gone.
Excerpt from the Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, WPA Federal Writer's Project Collection, Transcript #28120207.
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