Nick DiGaetano is a UAW Local 7 retiree. This interview discusses DiGaetano’s recollections of the ethnic groups among Detroit workers, the IWW-Industrial Workers of the World, and blacks in the auto plants and in the UAW.

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Topics include family history; the reasons her parents came to Copper Country; her father's work as a mine captain; celebrating Christmas and the Fourth of July; school; marriage to physician Addison Aldrich in 1907; life as an physician's wife; church life; social life; flu and typhoid epidemics; ethnic relations; a strike; temperance movement; suffrage; the WPA; Italian American community...

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Topics include attending school; graduating (1930) from Lawrence College in Appleton, Wis.; her work as a librarian in Calumet, first with the Calumet and Hecla library and later with the Calumet Public Library 1944-1966); the impact of World War I on the Copper Country; the Depression; copper mines and mining; ethnic groups and relations; amusements; the Calumet Theatre; Calumet and Hecla...

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Topics include coming to the U.S. from Italy; getting a job in the mines; boardinghouses; medical care and physicians; playing with the Calumet & Hecla Band; Allouez; and the visit of Theodore Roosevelt to Copper Country.

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