Interview with Jerry Cyr
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Date of Interview
7-8-2008
Duration of Audio File
0:38:31
Interviewee
Jerry Cyr
Age
Born 1945
Gender
Male
Description
Jerry Cyr describes participation in 1971 strike, and experience as a skilled machine tender.
Birth Place
Madawaska, Maine
Occupation/Work History
Machine Tender
Role
Union
Mill or Principal Employer
Fraser Paper Company
Mill Location
Madawaska, Maine
Keywords
Fraser Paper, Paper Industry - Maine, Labor Unions- Paper Industry, Paper Mill Strike - 1971
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Hillard, Michael G. PhD, "Interview with Jerry Cyr" (2008). Fraser Paper Company. 11.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/fraser-paper-company/11
Comments
Has recollections of events of August 9, 1971, meaning of the strike as an event that was about families and not just workers, the legacy of the strike in later years, and the complex and difficult process of getting a massive new paper machine leading up to the 1971 strike.