Interview with Peter Haggarty
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Date of Interview
8-18-2004
Duration of Audio File
0:35:37
Interviewee
Peter Haggarty
Age
Approximately 55 years old at time of interview
Gender
Male
Residence
Porter, Maine
Occupation/Work History
Lifelong peace activist; sustainable logger; and later owner of "Peace Fleece Farm"
Role
Union
Mill or Principal Employer
Maine Woodmen's Association
Mill Location
Maine
Keywords
Woodcutters Strike, Maine Labor History, Maine Paper Industry
Description
Hagerty was a co-founder and leader of the Maine Woodmen's Association (MWA) at the time of the 1975 MWA strike. The interview includes a detailed account of the strike, especially meetings and protests southern Maine. Hagerty was educated at an elite college and was active in the antiwar movement against the Vietnam War which shaped his perspective on the issues causing the strike.
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This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
Hillard, Michael G. PhD, "Interview with Peter Haggarty" (2004). Maine Woodman’s Association Strike of 1975. 16.
https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/maine-woodsmans-strike/16
Comments
Hagerty, along with Claire Bolduc and Jonathan Falk were proponents of the view that the MWA should focus on the power of the paper companies as the principal challenge for loggers, and not the French Canadian guestworkers who other leaders (BIll Butler, Mel Ames, and Wayne Birmingham) saw as the cause of poor conditions. Hagerty met with French Canadian guest workers at their homes in Canada and sought bring them into the strike. Hagerty was also a practitioner of sustainable logging, which included using horses as part of a "selective cutting" practice. Hagerty has continued to be a peace activist since the 1980s, when he co-founded Peace Fleece Farm in Porter, Maine.